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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

An Indian student expresses her concern about global heating. The impacts on her country are already quite bad.

Promoting democracy
Regine Reim

Important volunteers

Taking part in OSCE election observations

Elections
Alexander Graf Lambsdorff

“Observers, not diplomats”

Lessons EU election observers learned in Kenya

Capacity building
Otto C. Scharmer
Hinrich Mercker
Christine Wank

“Innovations start small”

MIT scholar defines up-to-date capacity building

Interview
Vinod Thomas

“Interactive results”

World Bank expert discusses limits of evaluating complex developments in quantitative terms

Food security
Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul

Ways out of the silent tsunami

How the international community can escape food scarcity

AIDS prevention
Eleonore von Bothmer

Safe sex subsidy

Conditional cash transfers in support of safe sex

News
Eleonore von Bothmer

Germany second most-important donor country

Germany second most important donor according to OECD

Afghanistan
Claudia Isabel Rittel

Donors criticised

International NGOs lambast donors’ performance in Afghanistan

Religion and development
Charlotte Schmitz

Imams and women’s rights campaigners

GTZ organises debates of Muslim spiritual leaders and women’s rights organisations

IMF
Ellen Thalman

Reform at last

IMF finally reformed

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
Why we believe in our Digital Monthly
Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy
Why you might find our newsletter useful
Financing development and climate goals

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