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Development and cooperation

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Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit

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Sustainability

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

Javier A. Cisterna Figueroa

Latin America is burning

Year after year, valuable ecosystems are destroyed by wildfires. This drives climate change and decimates biodiversity. Slash-and-burn agriculture is partly to blame.

News

McDonald’s leaves Bolivia

In brief

Comment
Eva-Maria Verfürth

Dubious raids

Dubious raids: Egyptian authorities do not trust western NGOs

Health care
Eva-Maria Verfürth

Scooter pharmacies

How to improve poor people’s pharma supply in developing countries

Civic participation
Michael Konow

Grassroots matter

In Niger, civil society needs support at the grassroots level

Good governance
Maria Elisabeth Rotter

Sensible but insufficient

Plans for the European Endowment for Democracy are heading in the wrong direction

Multilateral summit
Antonio Tujan Jr.

“A rather solid  foundation”

Civil society leader finds Busan Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation promising

Brief History
Vera Dicke

New paradigms in a new millennium

From Rome to Busan: a brief history of the High Level Forums on Aid Effectiveness

Africa
Mamadou Lamine N’Dongo

Regional cooperation

Why development results depend on regional integration in Africa

Policy ownership
Karin Slowing Umaña

“We must learn to say no”

Guatemalan leader wants donors to pay more attention

Policy advice
Fabian Scholtes

Bridging the gap

How to interest aid agencies adn policymakers in research

Poverty Reduction

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

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

Gender Equality

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

The hard lot of old people
Women, climate and chocolate
Justice for victims of rape
How can we infer the colour of a person’s skin?
How GIZ gets young people moving

Governance

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

Drawing the right conclusions from data
The desert alliance
How to challenge a corrupt system
Gukurahundi: Zimbabwe’s lingering genocide wounds
Lessons of failure

Sustainability

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

Drawing the right conclusions from data
The desert alliance
How to challenge a corrupt system
Gukurahundi: Zimbabwe’s lingering genocide wounds
Lessons of failure