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Agriculture
Thomas Kruchem

Fire farming

Small farmers in southern Africa cannot make a living from their inefficient slash-and-burn agriculture

Argentina
Sebastián Vargas

Direct democracy

After the financial crash in Argentina in 2001, citizens organised direct democracy at the local level

Gender
Reham Alhelsi
Petra Schöning

Women’s shadow councils in Palestine

Women’s shadow councils lend support to Palestinian councilwomen

Sanitation
Isabel Günther
Alexandra Horst

Access to better toilets

How to improve the sanitation situation in slum settlements

Liberia
Samwar S. Fallah

Appointed by the president

Why elected local governments would be good for Liberia

Kenya
Agnes Abuom

The new tier  of government

Kenya's new counties give people more say at the local level, but governance challenges persist

Local government
Alan C. Robles
Alan C. Robles

Meet Mayor Erap, the former president

More than a mere rerun? Joseph Estrada, the Philippines former president, is now running his nation’s capital city

Manila
Alan C. Robles
Alan C. Robles
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Dysfunctional complexity

Metro Manila: why the governance structure is so complicated, and why that is not so unusual

Refugees
Mona Naggar
Mona Naggar

Education crisis

There are not enough schools for Syrian refugee children in Lebanon

School health
Caroline Sölle de Hilari

Healthy children

Health education should start in primary school

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Poverty Reduction

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

Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
What Zanzibar's spices have to do with gender equality
Fundamental human right under attack
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography

Gender Equality

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

The literary power of Black women writers
What Zanzibar's spices have to do with gender equality
The fate of a Rwandan man with disability
Fundamental human right under attack
Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography

Governance

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

Preventing Boko Haram from recruiting young people
Evicting indigenous people
How a pedagogy of sustainability can help Africa’s future
Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
Waithood – endless adolescence

Sustainability

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

Preventing Boko Haram from recruiting young people
Evicting indigenous people
How a pedagogy of sustainability can help Africa’s future
Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
Waithood – endless adolescence