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Development and cooperation

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Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit

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Governance

Promoting democracy
Regine Reim

Important volunteers

Taking part in OSCE election observations

Elections
Ghassan Atiyaah

Elections without reconciliation

Without reconciliation, there can be no democracy in Iraq

Elections
Kean Wong

Kingmaker Web 2.0

Web 2.0 and the transformation of the public sphere in Malaysia

Elections
Alexander Graf Lambsdorff

“Observers, not diplomats”

Lessons EU election observers learned in Kenya

Capacity building
Otto C. Scharmer
Hinrich Mercker
Christine Wank

“Innovations start small”

MIT scholar defines up-to-date capacity building

Health care
Barbara Kühlen

A focus on traditional knowledge

Health care: A focus on traditional knowledge

Interview
Vinod Thomas

“Interactive results”

World Bank expert discusses limits of evaluating complex developments in quantitative terms

Relevant reading
Gero Erdmann

The power of elections

Review essay: the power of African elections

Food security
Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul

Ways out of the silent tsunami

How the international community can escape food scarcity

The rule of law
Michael Nienhaus

Many women are unaware of their rights

Afghanistan’s formal and informal judicial systems

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Poverty Reduction

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

Brief history of ARV treatment in South Africa
HIV/AIDS still haunts South Africa
An Indian student expresses her concern about global heating
Biogas innovation: Clean energy and fertiliser for Malawi’s farmers
Why we believe in our Digital Monthly

Gender Equality

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

NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
Improving female entrepreneurs’ self-esteem
Why you might find our newsletter useful
Kenyan military ordered to end HIV discrimination in recruitment
A cookbook reveals the connection of diet and tradition

Governance

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

Self-righteous aggressiveness versus universal values
Brief history of ARV treatment in South Africa
HIV/AIDS still haunts South Africa
NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy

Sustainability

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

Self-righteous aggressiveness versus universal values
Brief history of ARV treatment in South Africa
HIV/AIDS still haunts South Africa
NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy