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Business incubation
Ely Manel Faye

Building digital nations

Tech hubs are proliferating all over the world, but face particular challenges in Africa

Health services
Andreas Wulf

Good care for all

The debate on what kind of health care best serves the poor

ECOWAS
Karim Okanla

Mere first steps

Not everyone is happy about West Africa’s CFA Franc being set to become the Eco

SMEs

Innovative drivers of sustainable development

The Up-Scaling programme of DEG, the German development finance institution

Private-sector development
Christiane Laibach
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

“The right balance”

Innovative start-ups make a difference in Africa, but on their own they cannot generate enough jobs

Plastics ban
Roli Mahajan

Finding alternatives

Rwanda is taking its ban on single-use plastic bags one big step further, to include most other types of single-use plastic products

Youth unemployment
Maximilian Matschke

South Africa’s time bomb

Five proposals for improving labour-market dynamics in South Africa

MEST funding
Veronica Mulhall

Successful businesses

Examples of successful tech start-ups whose founders have graduated from the MEST Training Program

Start-ups
Veronica Mulhall
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

“Talent is everywhere, but opportunity is not”

MEST Ghana trains young high-tech entrepreneurs and promotes African talents

Blog
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

Coronavirus hurts Mauritius though no-one is infected so far

Mauritius is a very small country far away from China – but its economy has close ties to that country

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Poverty Reduction

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

Additional jobs mean additional incomes
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The sacred forests of Ethiopia
Africa must move on from subsistence farming
Hope is a resource

Gender Equality

In order to achieve gender equality, it is necessary to empower women and girls.

Uganda faces rising challenges in combating gender-based violence
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Human rights for all
Kenya debates decriminalising suicide to address mental health
Hope is a resource

Governance

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals will require good governance – from the local to the global level.

Time constraints make democracy look dysfunctional
AI and social media: examples of lagging regulation
Proven benefits
Uganda faces rising challenges in combating gender-based violence
Additional jobs mean additional incomes

Sustainability

The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to transform economies in an environmentally sound manner, leaving no one behind.

Time constraints make democracy look dysfunctional
AI and social media: examples of lagging regulation
Proven benefits
Uganda faces rising challenges in combating gender-based violence
Additional jobs mean additional incomes