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Afghanistan
Brigitte Sadzik

Loans for small businesses

Microfinance schemes are making a difference in Afghanistan

Public participation
Jörn Geißelmann
Christine Warmer

Ambivalent role

Cautious attempts to involve citizens in the management of Chinese urban agglomerations

Intergovernmental cooperation
Peter Pieck

West Africa sets an example

International Management of the River Niger

Social networks
Clemens Greiner
Michael Schnegg

Urban-rural lifestyles

Rural-urban networking secures livelihoods

Rule of law
Rubina Saigol

Pakistan’s long march

Challenges Pakistan’s rightful chief justice must rise to

Decentralisation

Tanzania in the middle of the reform process

Obstacles to political decetralisation in Tanzania

Pakistan
Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul

“Obligations of Pakistan’s government”

Wieczorek-Zeul assess situation in Pakistan in interview with D+C

Journalism
Adelheid Schultze

Digital democracy

The political significance of ditigal media

Target groups
Sören Scholvin

Prescribed independence

Pitfalls of the participation principle

Social security
Yesko Quiroga

Reforming Pinochet’s pension reform

Reforming Pinochet’s pension reform

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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