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Development and cooperation

D + C

Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit

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Poverty Reduction

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

Michael Moyo

HIV/AIDS still haunts South Africa

HIV/AIDS is still haunting South Africa, though it stopped making international headlines about two decades ago. The situation is better than it was, but there is still room for improvement.

School system
Verena Stamm

Charitable and faith-based initiatives must jump in

The school situation in Burundi is difficult

Vocational training
Judy Thuo
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Front-face customer care

Why vocational training matters in Nairobi’s public-transport industry, and why young women in particular deserve job opportunities

Inequality
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

How addictive behaviours are linked to inequality

A new book by two British scholars explores the negative impacts that social inequality has on mental health

Development policy
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Too little and too unambitious

Welthungerhilfe and terre des hommes are calling for more money for official development assistance and more ambitious policies

Mobile money services
Humphrey Nkonde

Popular with employees and customers alike

Mobile-phone companies in Zambia give unemployed youth a chance

Primary schools
Samwar S. Fallah

Public is waiting for government report

Authorities shy away from discussing results of Liberian private-public partnership in primary education

Nexus
Fabian Böckler

Points to keep in mind

How the Nexus approach can be successfully implemented in the Lake Chad Basin

Lake Chad region
Fabian Böckler

Nexus makes sense

In the Lake Chad Basin crisis, humanitarian aid alone will not do – development support and peace promotion are needed too

Social inclusion
Roli Mahajan

The parents’ burden

In India, a growing number of economically disadvantaged parents are sending their children to private schools

Natural disaster

Mozambique faces enormous challenges

After Cyclone Idai, Mozambique needs a new natural-disaster prevention and city planning

Poverty Reduction

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

HIV/AIDS still haunts South Africa
An Indian student expresses her concern about global heating
Biogas innovation: Clean energy and fertiliser for Malawi’s farmers
Why we believe in our Digital Monthly
Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy

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.

HIV/AIDS still haunts South Africa
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

Sustainability

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

HIV/AIDS still haunts South Africa
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