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At D+C/E+Z, we are proud of our international network of authors. It is particularly important to us to be a platform for voices from the global south. Some authors contribute on a regular basis, others don't. Here you can find information about the people behind the contributions.

Frank Bliss

bliss.gaesing@t-online.de

last contributed to D+C/E+Z in the winter of 2020/2021 as professor of social anthropology at Hamburg University and independent consultant specialising in international development.

All articles of Frank Bliss

Research
Frank Bliss
Karin Gaesing

Pathways out of extreme poverty and hunger

Social protection, land ownership and promotion in the agricultural sector can alleviate ultra-poverty

Participation
Frank Bliss

Valuable resource

New book about participatory methods in development projects has the makings of a standard

Health care
Frank Bliss

Free access for the extremely poor

The Health Equity Fund is improving access to health care for the poorest people in Cambodia

Letter to the editor
Frank Bliss

The quirks of misguided decentralisation in Benin

Reader continues discussions of our focus section “Tax disputes”

School feeding
Frank Bliss

Contribution to nutrition security

Schools are serving healthy food from local suppliers

School feeding
Frank Bliss

A shared morning meal

School feeding helps pupils focus on their lessons in Cambodia

Agriculture
Frank Bliss
Karin Gaesing

Indispensable legal certainty

Legal certainty in land-ownership questions is decisive for the battle against poverty

ODA
Frank Bliss

Cash transfers help the extreme poor

The idea of social protection is gaining momentum in development aid

Development cooperation
Frank Bliss

Ethical conduct

Ethical guidelines for situation in which the self-interest and the social responsibilities of development agencies collide

Safe drinking water
Frank Bliss

400 wells for 20 ethnic groups

Digging wells is quite demanding in a setting of great ethnic diversity

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The internet is crucial

Poverty Reduction

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

Africa must move on from subsistence farming
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

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