Contents September issue

Editorial

Hans Dembowski:
Vibrant civil society life boosts political stability

Monitor

“New” donors: BRICS without mortar | Germany’s anti-corruption concept | France withdrawing from Afghanistan | Misery in Greek migrant camps | Transition to democracy in Libya | SADC Tribunal degraded | Nowadays: Prostitution in Kolkata


Focus: Civil society

Anthony Mulowa:
Free access to information in Zambia

Agnes R. M. Aboum:
Making peace after Kenya’s election riots 

Dzidzo Yirenya-Tawiah and Elaine Tweneboah Lawson:
Improving sanitation in Ghana

Interview with Barnim Raspe:
ENGAGEMENT GLOBAL helps civil society organisations apply for EU funding

Boro Baski:
Our fate in our hands – a community-based Adivasi organisation in India

Peter Patze:
China’s authoritarian regime wants efficient service providers

Laura Hinze:
Eco-protest in coastal town in China


Tribune

Jonas Erhardt and Nele Bünner:
Banana, coffee, rubber trees – agroforestry in the Philippines uplands

Marcus Stewen and Nand Kishor Agrawal:
Northeastern India must adapt to global warming

Interview with Talaat Abdel-Malek:
The Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation assumes duty


Debate

Comments on the change of government in Malawi, Zimbabwe’s awkward coalition government and the risks relating to EU ideas
of “blending” development funding | Letters to the editor