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Irrigation
Sana Foday Kebba Jatta
Guy Manners

Sri Lankan success

Agro-wells help tackle poverty in Sri Lanka

Health
Bastian Schnabel

Drastic consequences of diarrhoeal disease

Drastic consequences of diarrhoeal disease

Orthopaedic technologies
Ursula Schoch

Appropriate training

The Tanzania Training Centre for Orthopaedic Technologists TATCOT has been supported by Germany for 25 years.

Governance

Erratic justice?

Debating judicial performance in Indian PIL cases

Aid effectiveness
Julia Steets
Kristina Thomsen

Scope for better assessment

Scope for better country assessments at the World Bank

Health care system
Anne Jung

Zimbabwe in the time of cholera

The reasons why Zimbabwe's cholera epidemic is out of control

Infrastructure
Ronjon Chakrabarti
Rainer Mutschler-Burghard

Progress despite political instability

Progress made in monitoring Nepali rivers in spite of poltical turmoil

Assessing results
Liane Asta Lohde

Complex set of factors

IFC evaluates developmental success

Energy
Karin Boschert
Nina V. Michaelis

The right way to do it

The conditions for sensible use of bioenergy according to German scientists

NATO
Jürgen Lieser
Peter Runge

More weapons won't help

Military mindset will not solve Aghanistan’s woes

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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