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Development and cooperation

D + C

Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit

E + Z

Digital monthly

6/2022

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Disaster response
Wolf R. Dombrowsky

Learning from the catastrophe in the German Ahr Valley

The flooding in July 2021 could have been less disastrous if the authorities had learned from the past and from other countries

Relevant reading
Mahwish Gul
Mahwish Gul

Climate hazards are increasing fast

UNEP demands fast climate action to prevent even more extreme weather

Disaster preparedness
Md Bodrud-Doza

Boosting disaster preparedness in the Ganges Delta

Bangladesh has made remarkable progress towards climate resilience

Poverty Reduction

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

Hope is a resource
Zimbabwe’s malnutrition crisis worsens under El Niño drought
Rethink conditions for lending to African countries
Better development financing for Africa
Burundi’s struggling tourism: Parks and reserves under threat

Gender Equality

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

Hope is a resource
NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
Improving female entrepreneurs’ self-esteem
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.

Annexation as a political goal
Living between hope and helplessness
Fundamentally different fundamentalists
How indigenous spirituality matters
Soviet-era borders cause trouble today

Sustainability

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

Annexation as a political goal
Living between hope and helplessness
Fundamentally different fundamentalists
How indigenous spirituality matters
Soviet-era borders cause trouble today