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Governance

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

Katharina Wilhelm Otieno

Waithood – endless adolescence

The future belongs to young people. They must be empowered to assume responsibility. Far too often, however, they lack prospects. It is encouraging that, all over the world, many want to take their fate into their own hands.

Sex education
Maxwell Suuk

Baby dumping

Lack of knowledge about contraception leads to unwanted pregnancies in Ghana

Standardisation
Andreas Hauser

Turning wastewater into drinking water

TÜV SÜD is working on an international standard for decentralised wastewater treatment systems

Editorial
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

Consumerism’s side-effect

Formal waste management is one of the most important municipal services

Recycling
Mona Naggar
Mona Naggar

Bonding through waste separation

Syrian refugees and their Lebanese neighbours are taking their waste disposal problems into their own hands

Authoritarian attitudes
Alan C. Robles
Alan C. Robles

Chains coming?

Rodrigo Duterte, the president-elect of the Philippines, loves to swear and threaten to kill people

Jobs
Bilikiss Adebiyi-Abiola
Eva-Maria Verfürth

“Incentives for behaviour change”

Wecyclers help to tackle garbage challenge in Lagos, Nigeria

Democracy
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Undermining Turkey’s democracy

Erdogan’s tragedy

Primary schools
Boro Baski
Boro Baski

India is facing huge challenges

India’s rural primary schools still have room for improvement

Education
Boro Baski
Boro Baski

Setting the right example

In India, non-formal schools perform well, especially among those least likely to get a good education

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Dictators are not normally benign

No, China does not prove that authoritarian rule is useful

Poverty Reduction

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

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
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”

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.

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”
Why Kenya is on fire

Sustainability

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

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”
Why Kenya is on fire