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Governance

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals will require good governance – from the local to the global level.

Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets

In recent weeks, massive protests have erupted in Kenya’s major cities triggered by discontent over the finance bill 2024. The people on the streets are almost exclusively young people, forming a kind of political movement the country has never seen before. Pr...

Service provider

Addressing the planet

The geocoding system of what3words can help to enhance access to services in remote areas

Schools

Indispensable lessons

Why teenage girls need sex education even more than teenage boys do

Blog

Fulfil the promises

Why last week’s international Belt and Road Forum in Beijing was promising

Our view

Markets leave some people behind

The top priority must be to ensure that state-run schools perform well

Media

Hate speech leads to violence

The civil war in Libya is exacerbated by hate speech and propaganda

Private education

Some people have no other choice

Relevant reading on why private education can make a difference in developing countries

Higher education

From boom to bust

Why Houdegbe North American University Benin once looked promising, but is no longer operational

Security

Climate of fear and violence

Honduras is among the most dangerous countries that are not currently at war

Honduras

Hoping for a better future

Poverty, crime and poor governance are causing people to flee in droves from Honduras

Peacebuilding

Tribal conflicts threaten women

Women in Papua New Guinea are hard-hit by tribal wars

Sustainability

The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to transform economies in an environmentally sound manner, leaving no one behind.