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Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit

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Contributors

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.

Liane Schalatek

liane.schalatek@us.boell.org

last contributed to D+C/E+Z in summer of 2019 as the associate director of the Heinrich Böll Foundation North America. The foundation is close to Germany’s Green Party.  

All articles of Liane Schalatek

Climate finance
Liane Schalatek

Ambiguity instead of accountability

The international community urgently needs a clear definition of what exactly counts as climate finance

Green Climate Fund
Liane Schalatek

Signalling effect for global climate finance

The Green Climate Fund is important for implementing the Paris agreement

Climate finance
Liane Schalatek

Get ready for business

The Green Climate Fund aspires to be fully operational ahead of the climate summit in Paris in December

Multilateral institution
Liane Schalatek

Transformative potential

Several programmatic decisions that will guide the Green Climate Fund are promising

Global governance
Liane Schalatek
Smita Nakhooda

Slow, but steady progress

Green Climate Fund is making slow, but steady progress

New institution
Liane Schalatek

Time pressure on the Green Climate Fund

Time pressure on the Green Climate Fund

Multilateral politics
Liane Schalatek

Another opportunity

Ahead of the UN climate summit in Durban, the Green Climate Fund is taking shape

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Imran Mukhtar
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Ndongo Samba Sylla
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Mona Naggar
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Virginia Mercado
The large number of femicides marks Mexico’s reputation
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Need for government advertising makes media vulnerable
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Suparna Banerjee
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Hildegard Lingnau
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Marva Khan
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Hugh Williamson
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Kathrin Berensmann
Debt situation is escalating in many developing countries
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Boro Baski
Fear and anguish added to pandemic pain in India
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Aditi Roy Ghatak
Behind schedule

Poverty Reduction

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

Close funding gaps
Why Zambia needs the AfCFTA
Developing Malawi’s food sector
Land-use conflicts undermine food security in Nigeria
A mobile app extends much-needed credit to smallholders

Gender Equality

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

Female farmers need more support in Ghana
Overview culture special
Pakistan is facing a looming water crisis
In Malawi, an NGO is helping victims of gender-based violence
The Taliban’s second emirate

Governance

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

Democracy needs separate branches of government
“Focus on what is happening in the present”
Ugandan government prefers money over morality
Close funding gaps
Why Zambia needs the AfCFTA

Sustainability

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

Democracy needs separate branches of government
“Focus on what is happening in the present”
Ugandan government prefers money over morality
Close funding gaps
Why Zambia needs the AfCFTA