Governance

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

More must happen

The Africa Climate Summit in Nairobi in early September was an important opportunity for African countries to adopt a shared agenda. While governments managed to agree on several important issues, civil-society organisations did not get the attention they dese...

Brain drain

Underpaid and overworked health workers in Nigeria

Due to underpayment and overload, thousands of trained health workers are leaving Nigeria to find employment abroad

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Infrastructure

Ghana's water supply

Ghana's water supply developed over the last hundred years with the involvement of many institutions and authorities

Access to drinking water

Promoting access to safe drinking water for all

While Ghana has made progress towards providing equitable access to safe drinking water, many people still lack this basic service

Water in urban areas

Kampala’s water problems

In Kampala, Uganda’s capital, residents lack access to clean water. The dilapidated sewer system and flooding also pose hazards. Previous efforts to improve the situation have been inadequate

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Breathing space for politically persecuted persons

Hamburg offers breathing space for politically persecuted persons

Decolonisation

Colonial legacies still mark development affairs

After decades of debate, the impacts of the colonial era are still evident in development cooperation

Water supply

Equipping water utilities to meet SDG6

Billions of people have no access to drinking water and sanitary facilities.

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Government revenues

Why UN probably cannot deliver more on taxes than OECD

Multilateral action should contribute to boosting government revenues

Development studies

Why development depends on a national elite’s shared vision

Oxford scholar rehabilitates the much-maligned term “aid”

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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.