Development and
Cooperation

Poverty reduction

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

Financing lives

The largest single donor worldwide has halted its development cooperation: funding for USAID has been frozen for 90 days and is currently under review. These actions by the US president are already costing human lives. The global community must save what it ca...

Water treatment

“Each drop of water matters”

DBL Group, a Bangladeshi garments producer, recycles its industrial water

Elections

Protected by God

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

Traffic safety

Carnage on the roads

Ghana’s roads are increasingly scenes of serious traffic accidents

UN prognosis

The climate crisis is ­­exacerbating water stress

UN report highlights challenges related to water stress

Hard-hit country

Resilience tested once again

Nepal's government may need to reconsider its development strategy due to Covid-19 crisis

Water crisis

Vital resource

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

Marginalised communities

Spreading dangerously

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

Information technology

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

Economics

Count in human beings

Two Nobel laureates want economists to focus more on empirical reality

Shared responsibility

Debt relief for poorest countries

Left to themselves, developing countries can’t cope with the Covid-19 pandemic