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Global governance
Leelananda de Silva

An outdated set-up

How to improve the UN Development System

Aid effectiveness
Dirk Niebel

More than a passing fad

Ahead of the next High Level Forum on Aid effectiveness, Germany’s development minister emphasises the principle of managing for results

Aid effectiveness
Claudia Schwegmann

A call for openness

Why donor agencies should grant open access to their data

Aid effectiveness debate
Antonio Tujan Jr.

Demanding democratic ownership

A call for democratic ownership of development programmes

Global governance
Henning Melber

“To save us from hell”

The lasting lecagy of UN General-Secretary Dag Hammarskjöld 50 years after his death

Gender policies
Bimbola Oyesola
Bimbola Oyesola

The odds against women

Nigerian trade unions promote gender justice, though not with much bite

PEGNet
Alexander Freese
Linda Kleemann

Stimulating exchange

The Poverty Reduction, Equity and Growth Network and its annual conferences

Class divides
Wanda Steindorf

Wealthy maids

Some domestic helpers in Brazil make good money

Good governance
Berthold M. Kuhn
Berthold M. Kuhn

Tricky benchmarking

The challenge of assessing measures designed to promote better governance

Social protection
Bernd Schubert

Consistently inconsistent

Internationally, cash transfer programmes are accepted as important means to fight poverty

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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.

Reimagining African folktales
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

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