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| NADEL – Global Cooperation and Sustainable Development |
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| NADEL Newsletter December 2023 |
Dear NADEL friends and alumni,
For the quieter time over Christmas, we invite you to immerse yourself in the world of the JPO soundtrack. A musical journey around the world, where our MAS students share their favourite songs that they discovered during their time as Junior Project Officers. Surprising rhythms and engaging lyrics. From Bangladesh to Zanzibar. From Ethiopia to Peru. Music thrives on the diversity of instruments. Musicians use this diversity to create something new, being more than the sum of its parts that moves us. The power of diversity also drives us at NADEL. The conviction that there lies energy for personal and intellectual growth in the diversity of people. And that this energy unfolds when people listen to each other and learn from each other. We were therefore all the more delighted to receive the ETH Diversity Award on 29 November, nominated by our students.
For the NADEL team,
Fritz Brugger and Isabel Günther
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| NADEL MAS: what our students say |
Find out what our NADEL Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) students say about the atmosphere at NADEL, the on-the-job training, and why they choose to work in international cooperation. We’re also grateful to our wonderful students for making the atmosphere at NADEL so supportive and collaborative!
The 2024–2026 MAS ETH in Global Cooperation and Sustainable Development programme starts in September 2024. Potential applicants can ask questions during our online Q&A lunch session on Wednesday, 24 January 2024, 12:00–13:00 CET. Registration details can be found here. The application window is from 1 January 2024 to 29 February 2024. |
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| NADEL Courses in 2024 |
Registration is open for NADEL courses offered in Spring & Autumn Semester 2024. Participants can choose from 17 courses on sustainable development and project management, such as “Finance for the 2030 Goals”, “Foundations of Leading Change” or “Planning and Monitoring of Projects”. The NADEL course programme offers a broad range of methodological skills and introduces participants to the latest knowledge on key topics of the Agenda 2030. NADEL courses are jointly taught by scientists and practitioners.
The CAS ETH in Global Cooperation and Sustainable Development programme can be completed full-time within six weeks from 12 February to 22 March 2024 or part-time within four years.
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| Podcast: Inequality, power and the future of development cooperation |
| In the latest episode of the NADEL podcast 1.90 pro Tag, we meet Melchior Lengsfeld, Executive Director of Helvetas, to talk about the current challenges and future priorities of international development organisations. What does it mean for their work when inequality increases and democracy loses its power of persuasion? Why is development always about changing power relations? And why does he believe that development cooperation is always political? |
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| Doctoral defense on intersecting inequalities in education and the labour market |
| Congratulations to Dario Meili for the successful defense of his dissertation on group-based inequalities in education and the Swiss labour market. His outstanding dissertation, using intersectionality to understand economic inequality, reveals that overlapping social identities like gender, ethnicity, and migration status compound inequalities. His key findings include: educational disparities can't be resolved by addressing gender and ethnicity separately; migrants, especially women, face more significant unemployment-related earnings losses in Switzerland; and the effectiveness of caseworker support varies across different groups. Dario's research underscores the need for targeted policies that address the complex interplay of individual identities to support disadvantaged groups effectively. |
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| Publication: Walking in informal settlements |
In a new study, NADEL/DEC’s Yael Borofsky, Isabel Günther and co-author Stephanie Briers analyze pedestrian activity in informal settlements, a topic often overlooked despite its relevance to over a billion people. The authors compare sensor data measuring pedestrian activity in informal settlements in Cape Town, with the predictions from two pedestrian activity theories: route optimization and space syntax. The findings showed both theories had limited predictiveness, highlighting the need for a new approach to understand pedestrian behavior in informal urban areas.
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| Publication: Economic growth and child malnutrition |
In a study by NADEL/DEC’s Nicolas Büttner, Kenneth Harttgen and co-authors, data from over 1.1 million children in 58 low- and middle-income countries was analyzed to explore the association between economic growth and childhood malnutrition. The findings revealed a weak connection between economic growth and a decrease in malnutrition. The study suggests that simply relying on economic growth is insufficient to reduce childhood malnutrition. Targeted investments in specific areas unaffected by economic growth, such as maternal health and education, are essential for more effective solutions.
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