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Governance

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

Isaac Sagala

Why Kenya is on fire

For weeks, Kenya has been experiencing a wave of protests led by young people, triggered by an unpopular finance bill. No one can really say they didn’t see this coming. What is unfolding in Kenya is a lesson in what happens when the debt crisis escalates not ...

Social media
Alan C. Robles
Alan C. Robles

Increasingly manipulated forum

Online trolls’ disinformation is undermining Philippine democracy

Authoritarian rule
Alan C. Robles
Alan C. Robles

Fact and fiction

In the Philippines, pro-Duterte activism on social media keeps people agitated and misinformed

Urban lives

My family succeeded in leaving dismal informal housing

Childhood in a Mumbai slum

Slum-dwellers

India’s commercial hub is a city of migrants

Masses of people who live in Mumbai’s miserable slums appreciate the city’s many opportunities

Obstetric fistula
Mireille Kanyange
Mireille Kanyange

Marginalised for reasons of health

Obstetric fistula causes suffering and exclusion for many thousands of women

Urban life
Thuany Rodrigues

Rio’s poor have reason to fear the police

The vast majority in Brazil’s poor communities are not involved in crime

Shared spaces
Alphonce Shiundu
Alphonce Shiundu

Students live in some of Nairobi’s worst housing

Sanitation, security and safety are secondary considerations for young Kenyans who need a roof over their heads

Affordable housing
Alphonce Shiundu
Alphonce Shiundu

Why the government’s housing policy is failing in Nairobi

Kenya is taking the wrong track by building houses for sale to the urban poor

Environment
Dagmar Wolf
Dagmar Wolf

Book shows rays of hope in climate crisis

Small-scale action can achieve quite a lot, helping people to cope with climate crisis

Infrastructure
Qaabata Boru

Throughout the camp, houses lack adequate sanitation

Water and sanitation infrastructure is inadequate in Kenya’s Kakuma refugee camp

Poverty Reduction

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

Mexico must include its indigenous population in the tourism sector
Rebounding tourism set to support Sri Lanka’s economic recovery
Why tourist arrivals in Sri Lanka peaked in 2018
Mexico’s first female president
Prioritise international solidarity over national interests

Gender Equality

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

Modern dowry payment in Kenya
Mexico’s first female president
Women-led businesses suffer most
Why you might find our newsletter useful
Why the acronym BIPoC does not have to explain anything

Governance

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

Why Kenya is on fire
Building bridges to reconcile religious conflicts
ODA under attack
Development policy must not ignore changing global realities
Imagine top judges in Africa or Asia ruling like the US Supreme Court

Sustainability

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

Why Kenya is on fire
Building bridges to reconcile religious conflicts
ODA under attack
Development policy must not ignore changing global realities
Imagine top judges in Africa or Asia ruling like the US Supreme Court