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Governance

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

Shakira Wafula
Katharina Wilhelm Otieno

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

Kenya’s youth have been taking to the streets against the government for weeks. Sports student Shakira Wafula almost involuntarily became a face of the movement. In this interview, she talks about what is driving young Kenyans.

Elections
Mireille Kanyange
Mireille Kanyange

Protected by God

Burundi has held elections – without much consideration of the corona pandemic

Traffic safety
Maxwell Suuk

Carnage on the roads

Ghana’s roads are increasingly scenes of serious traffic accidents

International cooperation
Daniel Nordmann
Helmut Lang
Katrin Gronemeier

Averting “Day Zero”

How to improve urban water supply in sub-Saharan Africa

Water crisis
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Vital resource

The climate crisis and overuse of water put the water supply in many countries at risk

Water crisis
Katie Cashman

Parched and privatised

Chile faces serious water shortages due to the climate crisis

Marginalised communities
Thuany Rodrigues

Spreading dangerously

Covid-19 strikes hard in Rio de Janeiro's many informal settlements

Information technology
Ochan Hannington

Tech training at Rhino Camp

A South Sudanese exile has become the go-to IT expert for his neighbours at a refugee settlement in northern Uganda

Household chore
Sudeh Dehnavi

Gender injustice

Unequal income opportunities are the reason why women and girls must fetch water for poor families

Water
Krupa Ge

Marginalised women’s plight

Women’s stressful duty of procuring water

Urban life
Krupa Ge

No water – or too much of it

2019 Chennai suffered a terrible drought – after devastating flooding four years earlier

Poverty Reduction

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

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

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.

“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”
Why Kenya is on fire
Building bridges to reconcile religious conflicts
ODA under attack
Development policy must not ignore changing global realities

Sustainability

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

“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”
Why Kenya is on fire
Building bridges to reconcile religious conflicts
ODA under attack
Development policy must not ignore changing global realities