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Sustainability

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

Raphael Mweninguwe

Biogas innovation: Clean energy and fertiliser for Malawi’s farmers

EcoGen, a Malawian start-up, transforms animal waste into biogas and bio-fertiliser, providing farmers with affordable energy and sustainable farming solutions. This innovation helps reduce reliance on firewood and chemical fertilisers.

G8
Alexandra Janda

Not much progress

G8 summit in Toyako: not much progress

Comment
Meike Scholz

Risky, but worthy

Arrest warrant for sudanese president El Bashir?

African Standby Force
Alexandra Janda

A skeptic takes stock

A skeptic takes stock of the African Standby Force

China
Alexandra Janda

Successful cooperation

China's cooperation with donor agencies

Doha Round

Failure after near success

With breakthrough in reach, WTO fails to make progress

Biodiversity
Meike Scholz

“Bonn Mandate” after years of grid-lock

The results of the biodiversity conference in Bonn

Infrastructure
Rupert Neudeck

When the sky cries

An infrastructural project of water collection in Ethiopia

Comment
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Ignorant of global affairs

Exaggerated criticism of development efforts per se

Administrative reform
Tom Pätz
Günther Taube

Service orientation and transparency

Ethiopian civil-service reform

News
Eleonore von Bothmer
Claudia Isabel Rittel

International ban of cluster bombs

News

Poverty Reduction

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

Biogas innovation: Clean energy and fertiliser for Malawi’s farmers
An Indian student expresses her concern about global heating
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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