Development and
Cooperation

Digital monthly 2/2023

Education for all

Educating girls is also about empowering them.
Girl's education

Nepalese girls still don’t have equal educational opportunities

The lives of young women in Nepal are determined by traditions and taboos, even though the constitution guarantees them equal rights

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Lane in a Mumbai slum: poor children were largely abandoned during the pandemic.
Education in India

Covid-19’s devastating effects on India’s education

The pandemic interrupted the education of 360 million Indian students and kept them trapped in their homes, mostly without any option for e-learning

A makeshift school for Syrian refugees in the Bekaa Valley, eastern Lebanon.
Refugee children

There are very few educational opportunities for refugees in Lebanon

Over ten years after the start of the war, the educational situation of Syrian children and youth in Lebanon remains disastrous

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Postgraduates from SLE and from Cameroon and Chad doing project work together.
Young generation

How Generation Z is changing the world of work in development

Attitudes have changed towards global relations and work-life balance – at Berlin’s Centre for Rural Development (SLE) as well

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Final exams in Nepal.
SDG4

Good education for everyone

Though poor education affects society as a whole, many governments do not prioritise the sector appropriately

Kids on the playground of a public grammar school in Kwara state.
Private education

Why Nigerians have little faith in government-run schools

Disappointed in government-funded education, even poor parents increasingly opt for private schools

A woman in a female literacy class in Dhankuta, Nepal.
Nepal

Nepalese education in numbers

While literacy rates improved, there is still a big difference in school attendance according to gender and social background

For many young people in Gen-Z, studying is no longer just about a career.
Shift in values

Sacrifice instead of careerism: How Gen Z wants to work in the future

Part-time work and self-discovery are in, rapid promotion and big pay packets are out: Gen Z is changing the world of work in development

Dignity in menstruation is demanded throughout Latin America, as it is here in Colombia.
Gender

Menstruation justice in Mexico

Menstruation must not remain a taboo

„Motherhood is not a kids game“ – Mexican campaign poster in 2014.
Teenagers

Mexico wants to prevent teenage pregnancies

What young Latin Americans must learn about sex and reproductive health

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Informal labourers like these gold prospectors do not appear in Ghana’s unemployment statistics.
Ghana

Promoting employment in Ghana

Germany’s BMZ is supporting Ghana in the fight against high youth unemployment with an initiative called “Invest for Jobs”

Coders at an office of a Ghanaian logistics start-up in Accra, the country’s capital.
Labour market

Brain drain in Ghana's tech industry

Ghana's IT companies are competing for the best minds both on the local and on the global labour market

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Identity

Language politics in India

There is disagreement about whether children should be taught in Hindi or English after their respective regional language

Santali-speaking children being educated in their native language in Bengali script.
Languages

Understanding people in their native language

Ever since author Martin Kämpchen learned to speak Bengali, he has seen India with new eyes

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