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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.

Ipil Monica Baski

An Indian student expresses her concern about global heating

In Kolkata and elsewhere, the ecological problems are already huge. The climate crisis is exacerbating poverty and inequality.

Intercultural exchange
Will Swanson

A call for real leadership

An InWEnt-intern from California compares environmental attitudes in Germany and the USA

Higher education
Oliver Schmidt
N. V. Ramana

Mind the management gap

Higher education is becoming aware of microfinance's management needs

Social Networking
Wolfgang Zenker

Personal touch, international reach

Kiva.org’s P2P approach to raising funds for microloans

Debate
Antonio Tujan Jr.

“The North’s destructive model”

For sustainable development, humanity needs new paradigm, argues expert from the Philippines

Microfinance
Dubby Mahalanobis

Tricky challenges

The complex challenges of microinsurance administration

Microfinance
Hans Dieter Seibel

“Local roots”

Why microcredit programmes should be based on local savings

Climate policy
Juliana Radler de Aquino

Thank you, Copenhagen

Why Copenhagen meant progress for Brazil on climate matters

Elections
Phillip Kusch

Compulsory, but meaningful event

Upsides and downsides of Mali’s local-government elections in 2009

The arts
Stefan Rennicke

Stimulating societal development

The Art in Africa Foundation, a joint venture of UNESCO and Goethe Institut

Climate change
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

More urgent, more difficult

Copenhagen climate conference

Poverty Reduction

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

An Indian student expresses her concern about global heating
Biogas innovation: Clean energy and fertiliser for Malawi’s farmers
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Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy
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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.

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
Indigenous banks collapsing in Zambia: A closer look at Investrust

Sustainability

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

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
Indigenous banks collapsing in Zambia: A closer look at Investrust