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Sustainability

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

Boro Baski
Boro Baski

Why some Indian farmers are backing away from rice cultivation

In West Bengal, the green revolution made high-yielding rice cultivation attractive. Four decades later, the associated environmental problems have increased – and the climate crisis is further compounding them.

CPS
Martina Rieken

Help in times of crisis

Civil Peace Service supports refugees and returnees

Post-conflict countries
Reverend Peter Tibi

Restoring trust in society

Essential dimensions of multi-faceted peacebuilding

Governance
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Setting the right example

Why ECOWAS, the Economic Community of West African States, is becoming a beacon of democracy

Development policy
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Marshall Plan with Africa

Gerd Müller, Germany’s federal minister for economic cooperation and development, is pursuing a new vision

Aid Effectiveness
Peter Lanzet

Managing and monitoring ­effectiveness

Many milestones passed before the founding of the Global Partnership on Effective Development

Aid Effectiveness
Peter Lanzet

Rekindling interest in effectiveness

Better cooperation is needed to boost effectiveness, and civil society agencies have a role to play

Sahel
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Lack of statehood

Experts call for more statehood and better institutions to stabilise the Sahel region

United Nations
Friederike Bauer

Guterres is on fire

The new UN secretary-general is a refreshing change of pace from his predecessor

ODA
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

Aid increase too small

Official development assistance keeps rising, but remains less than pledged

Authoritarianism
Nora Sausmikat

Populism in the Middle Kingdom

Xi Jinping is centralising government power and reversing progress towards the rule of law in China

Poverty Reduction

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

Why some Indian farmers are backing away from rice cultivation
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Lessons of failure
The problems with Glyphosate
Why pesticides are more a curse than a blessing

Gender Equality

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

Breaking gender stereotypes: female bus driver in Rwanda
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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.

Success in Senegal and South Africa
Supporting local vaccine production in Africa
Don’t stop, do better
Risking collapse
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Sustainability

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

Success in Senegal and South Africa
Supporting local vaccine production in Africa
Don’t stop, do better
Risking collapse
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