Managing Global Governance: The Global Governance School

The Global Governance School is the scholarly part of the Training and Dialogue Programme 'Managing Global Governance' (MGG), an initiative of the German Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development (BMZ), implemented jointly by the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). The programme is aimed at highly qualified young professionals from currently eight anchor countries (Egypt, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Pakistan and South Africa), who work in government bodies, policy-oriented think tanks and research institutions.

By offering a qualification for young researchers and government employees the programme intends to strengthen partner countries’ capacities in shaping globalisation processes as well as supporting them with the implementation of national reform policies and the reduction of poverty. At the same time the programme wants to encourage high-level networking between Germany/Europe and the participating countries. The aim is to design stable, strategic partnerships on equal terms in order to identify common approaches for the solution of global challenges.

Another important goal that has been pursued alongside the GGS is the development of the so-called 'Global Governance Research Network' (currently still on an informal basis), a long-term, strategic research network with partner countries. The cooperation ranges from organising conferences and joint publications to the exchange of visiting fellows and the invitation of leading researchers and senior policy officers to teach at the GGS.

For more information on the concept and other modules of the MGG-Programme please consult the Programme-Website of Managing Global Governance.