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Poverty Reduction

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

Raphael Mweninguwe

Biogas innovation: Clean energy and fertiliser for Malawi’s farmers

EcoGen, a Malawian start-up, transforms animal waste into biogas and bio-fertiliser, providing farmers with affordable energy and sustainable farming solutions. This innovation helps reduce reliance on firewood and chemical fertilisers.

Price negotiations
Aviva Freudmann

Paying over the odds

Thrashing out a vaccines pricing deal with multiple players

Intellectual property
Marion Lieser

INGO opposes vaccine patents

Oxfam explains how current pricing and distribution of Covid-19 vaccines highlight global inequality

Street beggars
Raphael Mweninguwe

Changing hearts and minds

Government tries ‘mind-set change strategy’ to clear Malawi’s streets of beggars

Rural health care
Sumeya Issa

Medicines and supplies are difficult to find in rural Malawi

Rural Malawians are poorly served by clinics lacking medicines and expertise

Forced labour
Thuany Rodrigues

Slavery in all but name

Slavery is formally illegal in Brazil but in practice it is still widespread

Climate change
Waldo Soto Bruna

Why Chile can set an example in environmental protection

Chile lost the chance to host COP25 on its soil in 2019, but could shine at COP26

Learning Chinese
Derrick Silimina
Derrick Silimina

The Mandarin road to success

Learning to speak Chinese opens a wide range of job opportunities in Zambia

Mass suffering
Roli Mahajan

India’s disastrous second Covid-19 wave

Coronavirus is ravaging India’s cities and rural areas

Uganda
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

More malaria and infectious diseases

Uganda fears a decline in public health as a result of climate change

Sustainable Development Goals
Raphael Mweninguwe

Missing the target

The UN is allocating fresh funds to small firms to help Malawi meet SDG goals

Poverty Reduction

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

Biogas innovation: Clean energy and fertiliser for Malawi’s farmers
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Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy
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Financing development and climate goals

Gender Equality

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

NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
Improving female entrepreneurs’ self-esteem
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Kenyan military ordered to end HIV discrimination in recruitment
A cookbook reveals the connection of diet and tradition

Governance

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

NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy
Voodoo allows a holistic view of the cosmos
Brazil’s colonial legacies and current challenges
Indigenous banks collapsing in Zambia: A closer look at Investrust

Sustainability

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

NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy
Voodoo allows a holistic view of the cosmos
Brazil’s colonial legacies and current challenges
Indigenous banks collapsing in Zambia: A closer look at Investrust