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Development and cooperation

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Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit

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Poverty Reduction

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

Ipil Monica Baski

An Indian student expresses her concern about global heating

In Kolkata and elsewhere, the ecological problems are already huge. The climate crisis is exacerbating poverty and inequality.

Civil society
Sumeya Issa

Books for rural children in need

An NGO provides disadvantaged children in Malawi with text books for homeschooling in times of Corona

Marginalisation
Gildaneliz Barrientos

Small wellspring of hope

A non-profit organisation tries to bring hope into the lives of underprivileged children in Guatemala

International trade
Evita Schmieg

Embedding social standards

What the Coronavirus crisis teaches us about trade policy towards developing countries

Environment
Derrick Silimina
Derrick Silimina

Financing the fight against climate change

Facing twin plagues of floods and droughts, Zambia lacks resources to fight the effects of climate change

Water treatment
M. A. Jabbar
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

“Each drop of water matters”

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

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

UN prognosis
Sarah Josef

The climate crisis is ­­exacerbating water stress

UN report highlights challenges related to water stress

Hard-hit country
Jonathan Menge

Resilience tested once again

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

Water crisis
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Vital resource

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

Poverty Reduction

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

An Indian student expresses her concern about global heating
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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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