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Governance

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

Roli Mahajan

Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges

To reap a demographic dividend, India needs more and better job opportunities. In spite of high growth rates, masses of people are being left behind – and young people in particular struggle to find good jobs.

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Sealing off the EU makes it harder to promote human rights

European leaders want foreign countries to make refugees stay

Sanitation
Raphael Mweninguwe

Clean villages

Malawi is gaining ground in eradicating open defecation

Global environment
Dirk Messner
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

“Normative compass”

The dramatic global impact of urbanisation is being underestimated, warns WBGU

weltwärts volunteers
Francis Aidoo
Leon Wilken
Lois Fontaine

“Our vision is to empower the youth”

Leader of Ghanaian skills-training centre discusses his work with German weltwärts volunteers

Governance
Rüdiger Korff

Listen to everyone

Urban planning all too often fails because it is based on illusions

Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

Rwandan development not that great

Tension looming in Kigali

Poverty
Norbert Herrmann

Hard township life

Life is hard in South African townships, and there is plenty of room for improvement

Bus Rapid Transit
Nicholas Hollmann

TransMilenio – a model for success

Rapid transport buses carry 2 million people a day across Bogotá

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Experts want aid recipients to take aid agencies at word

An innovative guide to aid agencies

Bus Rapid Transit
Nicholas Hollmann

Most affordable

Rapid transit buses beat all other mass transport systems – especially on price

Poverty Reduction

The first UN Sustainable Development Goal is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.

Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
What Zanzibar's spices have to do with gender equality
Fundamental human right under attack
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography

Gender Equality

In order to achieve gender equality, it is necessary to empower women and girls.

What Zanzibar's spices have to do with gender equality
The fate of a Rwandan man with disability
Fundamental human right under attack
Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography
Modern dowry payment in Kenya

Governance

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

Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
Waithood – endless adolescence
“Dialogue of life”
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”

Sustainability

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

Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
Waithood – endless adolescence
“Dialogue of life”
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”