Harald Braumann joined UNRISD as a Research Analyst in July 2013 to assist Senior Research Coordinator Katja Hujo with a project on the
Politics of Domestic Resource Mobilization for Social Development and a joint UNRISD-UNICEF collaboration on
Mobilizing Revenues from Extractive Industries: Protecting and Promoting Children's Rights and Wellbeing.
More recently, he also assisted with the coordination of the UNRISD Think Piece Series
The Road to Addis and Beyond: Financing Social Development, a research project on
Addressing Multiple Forms of Migrant Precarity, and the 2016 UNRISD Flagship Report
Policy Innovations for Transformative Change: Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
He has previously worked at the Institute, assisting Director Sarah Cook with research related to the Social Policy and Development Programme. During this time he worked on a variety of issues, which included social protection, migration, public health, and good financial governance.
Harald holds a Masters in Governance and Public Policy from the University of Passau, Germany and a Bachelor’s degree in Intercultural European and American Studies from the University of Halle, Germany with a regional focus on Latin America. His Masters dissertation scrutinized the activities of the German political foundations in promoting democracy in South Africa. Harald previously worked as a student research assistant to the Chair of Political Science at the University of Passau and held courses in scientific paper writing.
Publications
Hujo, Katja and Harald Braumann. 2016. "
Mobilizing Domestic Resources for Sustainable Development: Toward a Progressive Fiscal Contract." In
Policy Innovations for Transformative Change: Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development., UNRISD Flagship Report 2016, Chapter 6, 167
–195. Geneva: UNRISD.
Braumann, Harald. 2015.
New Alliances for Social Development: Mobilizing Resources in Nicaragua. Project Brief No. 13, December 2015. Geneva: UNRISD.
Hujo, Katja and Harald Braumann. 2013.
Contestation and Social Change: The Politics of Domestic Resource Mobilization in Bolivia. Project Brief No. 7, December 2013. Geneva: UNRISD.
Hujo, Katja and Harald Braumann. 2013.
An Anti-Development Model? Overcoming Obstacles to Domestic Resource Mobilization in Zimbabwe. Project Brief No. 6, December 2013. Geneva: UNRISD.