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Sustainable development
Hans-Peter Repnik

Rio20+

Preparing for Rio20+

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

Strategic orientation
Hans-Jürgen Beerfeltz

Partners in the private sector

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

Media
Elton Hubner

Marginalised voices

Favela News Agency is expressing the views of Rio’s marginalised people

Infrastructure
Philip Schuler

Tracing pollution

How to keep source water in a Jordanian village clean

Agriculture
Markus Fibiger
Anna K. Weber
Simone Schnabel

Good intentions aren’t enough

Contract farming in Namibia is not yet as successful as planned

Clean Development Mechanism
Nicola Ursina Blum
Christina Gradl
Anna Santa Cruz

Every little bit helps

Clean Development Mechanism: every little bit helps

50 years of Germany's Development Ministry
Dirk Niebel

Open minds – better opportunities

German minister on future development policy

Public finance
Nfamara Jawneh

Serving the people by taxing them

Gambia’s revenue authority is making progress

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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.

Better protection for schools in northern Nigeria
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

Sustainability

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

Better protection for schools in northern Nigeria
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