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Sustainability

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

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Self-righteous aggressiveness versus universal values

Humankind’s religions share a common core of values, as the Swiss theologian Hans Küng prominently argued. He called it the “global ethic”.

Local communities
Jörn Geißelmann

The cultural dimension

UN agencies are supporting culture sensitive development in remote regions of China

Evaluation

New approaches

Impact evaluation should be considered best practice

Social security
Markus Bär

Protecting the poor

The PPP investment fund LeapFrog is promoting the micorinsurance sector

Climate protection
Nataly Jürges

Buying up emissions

Thanks to the CDM, more Nigerian families can afford to buy fuel-efficient cooking stoves

Strategic orientation

The discovery of secondary benefits

What German NGOs dislike about the Development Ministry's stance towards the private sector

Strategic orientation
Hans-Jürgen Beerfeltz

Partners in the private sector

Why Germany’s Development Ministry is keen on cooperating with the private sector

Arab Spring
Peter Hauff

Between apathy and utopia

Europe clinging to its old partners in North Africa

Food security
Vera Dicke

Dangerous volatility

Mixed messages from Global Hunger Index 2011

Transport
Prabir De

Great ambitions

India’s government is mobilising private capital to boost the nation’s infrastructure

Managing for results
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Uncharted territory

Results-based aid: opportunities of an innovative approach

Poverty Reduction

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

Brief history of ARV treatment in South Africa
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

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.

Self-righteous aggressiveness versus universal values
Brief history of ARV treatment in South Africa
HIV/AIDS still haunts South Africa
NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy

Sustainability

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

Self-righteous aggressiveness versus universal values
Brief history of ARV treatment in South Africa
HIV/AIDS still haunts South Africa
NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy