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Natural resources
Susanne Giese

The oil curse

African scholars consider alternatives to the „oil curse“

Nature reserves
Martin Lux
Jürgen Czerwenka

Joint administration

Local people participate in the administration of Bolivia’s Samaja National Park

Microfinance
Inka Rank

Beyond more income

Grameen Bank model works for Argentina’s Fundación León

Urban development
Ruth Erlbeck
Ralph Trosse

The world’s coldest capital

GTZ helps to thermo-technically renovate prefabricated buildings in Ulan Bator

Humanitarian crisis
Linda Helfrich

Refugees in Ecuador

Refugees in Ecuador

Violence against women
Susanne M. Müller

Small steps, great success

Cambodia is successfully fighting domestic violence

Reforming technical cooperation
Tom Pätz

Breathing organisation

Reforming technical cooperation

Women’s health
Nfamara Jawneh

Gambian circumcisers drop their knives

Tradtional healers in the Gambia discontinue genital mutilation

Managing for results
Stefan Schmitz

Comprehensive thinking

Managing for results is about rethinking how aid is distributed and made use of

Fragile statehood
Christian Jahn

Sudan ahead of elections

Why Sudan’s elections are likely to spell trouble

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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