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Gender Equality

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

Christina Chilimba

Consequences of the cyclone

Malawi is on the frontline of the climate crisis. One year after cyclone Freddy, the devastation is still catastrophic, depriving especially girls and women of their future.

Women's rights
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Overview gender equality

Our overview compiles contributions on gender equality

Cultural norms
Audrey Simango

Digitalising bride price payments

An entrepreneur developed an app to standardise brides prices in South Africa, that encounters much criticism

Gender justice
Jaylan ElShazly

Encouraging women to profit from e-commerce in Africa

Female entrepreneurs play an important role in Africa’s fast growing e-commerce market, yet they keep encountering obstacles

Call for new authors
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D+C is looking for new contributors

Empowerment
Connie Nagiah
Margaret Mapondera

Women take on environmentally destructive ‘development’ projects

The African civil-society organisation WoMin mobilises women to resist land grabbing and environmental destruction

Women’s empowerment
Nusrat Naushin
Maliha Masfiqua Malek

Climate justice requires gender justice

The impacts of global heating are not gender neutral, so the response cannot be gender neutral either

Working life
Ronald Ssegujja Ssekandi
Ronald Ssegujja Ssekandi

Vocational education for girls in Uganda

Smart Girls Foundation, a social enterprise, trains girls in areas like machinery welding, automotive mechanics and electric installation

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Why we believe in our Digital Monthly

What purposes our Digital Monthly serves, and how it differs from the print issue

German policy
Ronald Ssegujja Ssekandi
Ronald Ssegujja Ssekandi

BMZ makes bold statement of intent

The new Africa strategy of Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development

Daily Life
Gloria Manirakiza
Merle Becker

Motherhood in Burundi

A working mother of five reports how she organises childcare despite expensive day-care in Burundi

Poverty Reduction

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

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Local mobile app challenging international competitor
Immigrants trapped in illegality
Why ODA is better than its reputation in donor countries
Global public goods matter for global development

Gender Equality

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

Consequences of the cyclone
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Why you might find our newsletter useful
Why ODA is better than its reputation in donor countries
Hard working female head porters in Ghana

Governance

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

Join us to discuss global development
Indigenous politics in Ecuador and Bolivia
The drivers of change are at the local level
Facilitating constructive cooperation in a multipolar world
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Sustainability

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

Join us to discuss global development
Indigenous politics in Ecuador and Bolivia
The drivers of change are at the local level
Facilitating constructive cooperation in a multipolar world
Why you might find our newsletter useful