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D + C

Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit

E + Z

Digital monthly

1/2024

A baby is being given an oral vaccine while being held by someone.
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Local health experts
Dédé Fall
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Engagement for healthy babies and mothers

A health advisor from Senegal explains what advice she gives to young mothers on how to properly feed and care for their babies

Child aid
Jane Nafula
Katharina Wilhelm Otieno

“You have to hold them close”

Many children in low-income countries are orphans or have no one to look after them. Jane Nafula an SOS mother at the SOS Children's Village in Nairobi for 30 years, spoke to D+C/E+Z about the realities of caring for vulnerable children.

Children
D+C / E+Z

Why pre-school education matters

In prosperous countries, pre-school education is very common. Here are the reasons

Poverty Reduction

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

Sex for fish: the exploitation of female fish traders in Malawi
Cold war inside the G20 Common Framework
Zambia’s difficult quest for debt restructuring
India’s promising approach to tackling drug-resistant TB
In India, eradicating TB is a multi-dimensional challenge

Gender Equality

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

Sex for fish: the exploitation of female fish traders in Malawi
Breaking gender stereotypes: female bus driver in Rwanda
The hard lot of old people
Women, climate and chocolate
Justice for victims of rape

Governance

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

Fostering regional industrialisation of ECOWAS
What ECOWAS can learn from the EU integration process
The Scramble for Africa
In West Africa, authoritarian attitudes go back to colonial rule
Cold war inside the G20 Common Framework

Sustainability

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

Fostering regional industrialisation of ECOWAS
What ECOWAS can learn from the EU integration process
The Scramble for Africa
In West Africa, authoritarian attitudes go back to colonial rule
Cold war inside the G20 Common Framework