Gender Equality

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

Why ODA is better than its reputation in donor countries

In countries with high incomes, governments’ spending on international development normally does not have a good reputation. Many conservatives and market-orthodox liberals tend to consider it wasteful, ineffective and dysfunctional. Their claims that official...

Gender justice

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

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Empowerment

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

Climate justice requires gender justice

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

Working life

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

BMZ makes bold statement of intent

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

Daily Life

Motherhood in Burundi

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

Gender

Fighting violence through martial arts

In Zimbabwe more and more women defend themselves against violent attacks by training martial arts

Female mechanics

Breaking the gender-role system in the workplace

In Kenya, a new trend of female mechanics is challenging traditional beliefs

Governance

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

Sustainability

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