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Aid effectiveness
Peter Nunnenkamp

The myth of NGO superiority

Aid effectiveness: The myth of NGO superiority

Conflict prevention
Johan Galtung
Claudia Isabel Rittel

Missed angles

Conflict Prevention: Johan Galtung about the role of the media

Higher education
Matthias Weiter

The next generation of German-Arab experts

Higher education: The next generation of German-Arab experts

Climate change
Nina V. Michaelis

New conflict scenarios

Climate change: New conflict scenarios

Sanitation
Frank Kürschner-Pelkmann

Ecosan’s promising future

Sanitation: ecosan makes sense

AIDS orphans
Ulrike Block

Ticking time bomb

How Tanzania reacts to the AIDS-related orphans crisis

Web 2.0
Andreas Mandler

Without computer or fixed-line network

Web 2.0 and rural change

Fighting poverty
Hugh Williamson
Hugh Williamson

“Look at villages through the MDG prism”

Fighting poverty: “Look at villages through the MDG prism”

Agriculture
Rudolf Buntzel

Supermarkets’ looming threats

Agriculture: Supermarkets’ looming threats

Development jargon
Annette Benad
Uli Post

Helping people to help themselves

Development jargon: Helping people to help themselves

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Poverty Reduction

The first UN Sustainable Development Goal is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.

Tourism boom in Baltistan
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

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