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Sustainability

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

Stella Tushabe

Breaking gender stereotypes: female bus driver in Rwanda

Marie Rosine Ntabomvura, a mother of three, in Kigali, defies gender stereotypes that prescribe roles and abilities based on gender. When she turns the wheel of the humongous 60-seater town-bound bus, nothing about her skill suggests that she is intimidated by...

Summer Special
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Amusing and philosophical

A documentary road movie about the African San holds a mirror up to western society

ODA
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Lessons learned

Whether ODA succeeds or fails depends on many things

Development policy
Stephan Exo-Kreischer

Not an end in itself

Stephan Exo-Kreischer from the ONE Campaign explains why development policy is successful internationally

Development policy
Kurt Gerhardt

Too many failures

Kurt Gerhardt of the Bonn Appeal issues a fundamental critique of Germany’s development policy

Economic policymaking
Salman Anees Soz
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Low-hanging fruit

In the early 1990s, India’s economic reforms triggered high growth rates for the long term

Crisis lending
Iwan J. Azis
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Two lessons from structural adjustment

Indonesian economist looks back at IMF conditions in Asian crisis

ODA
Linda Engel

Evaluation 2.0

Digitalisation and changing conditions will determine how development projects are evaluated in the future

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Why things are better than people in rich countries think

Hans Rosling’s mission was to make the world aware of important trends

Municipal development cooperation
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Act locally – think globally

Many municipal development projects are actively involving migrants and refugees

Expert discussion
Franziska Wekenborg

Laying the basis for lasting peace

UN has shifted peacebuilding focus from international to local level

Poverty Reduction

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

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Lessons of failure
The problems with Glyphosate
Why pesticides are more a curse than a blessing
More financial support for college students

Gender Equality

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

Breaking gender stereotypes: female bus driver in Rwanda
Why you might find our newsletter useful
The hard lot of old people
Women, climate and chocolate
Justice for victims of rape

Governance

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

Don’t stop, do better
Risking collapse
Why you might find our newsletter useful
Drawing the right conclusions from data
The desert alliance

Sustainability

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

Don’t stop, do better
Risking collapse
Why you might find our newsletter useful
Drawing the right conclusions from data
The desert alliance