D+C Development and Cooperation

23/02/2025

From our "recommended" section: 🇧🇷 Brazil’s present day struggles are deeply tied to its colonial past.

Brazil’s ongoing struggles with social tension, inequality and environmental degradation are deeply tied to its colonial past. The lasting influence of Portuguese colonialism continues to hinder efforts to improve public welfare, address structural racism and protect the country’s rich ecosystem...

22/02/2025

🚺 Women's rights development is a barometer for free societies. Macarena Sáez explains in an interview why the fight for women's autonomy is also a fight for democracy.

✊ Read these and other stories in our latest digital monthly on women's resistance: http://spkl.io/6189fWxVF

22/02/2025

Thinking about degrowth must involve lower-income countries to avoid a neo-colonial research agenda, argues development researcher Daniele Malerba in one of our most popular pieces of the last month ⬇️

Debates on the feasibility and necessity of continuous economic growth have increased, not least due to the urgent need for action to mitigate climate change and the current polycrises. Thinking about degrowth models to reduce material consumption and production in the richer countries must strongly...

21/02/2025

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21/02/2025

🇨🇩 The situation in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is escalating again. The fighting has the potential to involve the entire region. The international community must take a stand, not least because the conflict is about resources that we all depend on.

Miriam Ogutu, international relations analyst, takes a look at the unfolding crisis for us.

The situation in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is escalating once again. Since January, the rebel group M23 has taken control of a number of important cities. The fighting has the potential to drag the entire region into it. The global community must take a stand, not least ...

20/02/2025

🇺🇸 Experts paint a gloomy picture for the future of the USA: http://spkl.io/6180fWsAI

20/02/2025

🇨🇲 📖 The separatist conflict in the Anglophone part of Cameroon has been going on for years and has been largely forgotten by the international community. It also has to do with the different education systems in the country. There is no normal schooling in the affected regions, which has an impact on the future of hundreds of thousands of children. Cameroon-based journalist Amindeh Blaise Atabong reports:

The separatist conflict in the Anglophone part of Cameroon, which has been going on for years, also has to do with the different education systems in the country. School operations are constantly disrupted, schools are destroyed or house refugees or the military. The effects on young people are deva...

19/02/2025

Stephan Klingebiel, head of the research programme “Inter- and Transnational Cooperation” at IDOS, on the destruction of American development policy: http://spkl.io/6182fWssp

19/02/2025

🎒Due to a conflict that has been largely forgotten by the international community, hundreds of thousands of children did not go to school for years. New EU funding gives some hope, but is far from enough, writes Cameroon-based journalist Amindeh Blaise Atabong. 🇨🇲

In Cameroon, hundreds of thousands of children have not been able to go to school for years due to the conflict in the English-speaking regions of the country. The fact that the EU is providing more funding gives hope – but is far from sufficient in a conflict that has been largely forgotten by th...

18/02/2025

🎓 ✏️ Education can help people escape poverty. But many people around the world lack access to quality education.

We have collected our most important contributions on this topic in our overview on education 👉 http://spkl.io/6181fY3oZ

18/02/2025

⚠️ It's been in the news everywhere: US President Donald Trump put the work of USAID on ice.

In D+C, Stephan Klingebiel from German Institute of Development and Sustainability IDOS explains what German development policy can do now.

US President Donald Trump had been in office for less than one week when his administration put the work of USAID on ice. The destruction can be slowed, but no longer stopped. What German development policy can do now.

17/02/2025

The current situation of women in Afghanistan looks dire, but many of them are not giving up. Selmin Çalışkan told us how women there are fighting back. Read the full interview here 👉 http://spkl.io/6189fWkZt

17/02/2025

🐛 Climate change and other factors are a threat to the mopane worm. That in turn threatens incomes in Zimbabwe.

In D+C, Derick Matsengarwodzi wrote about initiatives that aim to change things.

Mopane worms are a vital source of protein and income in Zimbabwe. Yet they are under threat due to climate change, deforestation and overharvesting. New sustainable farming initiatives aim to preserve them amid a worsening food security crisis.

16/02/2025

🚺 Where femicides are not persecuted, women live in even more fear because perpetrators get away with their crime. ProDESC AC

16/02/2025

🇩🇿 Clichés persist that portray female students as sexually available and unmarriageable persist on Algeria’s conservative society.

🚺 The consequences for young, aspiring women are devastating.

In Algeria’s conservative society, clichés persist that portray female students as sexually available and unmarriageable. The consequences for young, aspiring women are devastating.

15/02/2025

🇦🇫 There is a backlash against women's rights in many parts of the world. In Afghanistan, the Taliban are systematically banishing women from the public sphere while the world looks on.

💬 We spoke to human-rights expert Selmin Çalışkan about what's going on there – and how women in Afghanistan are fighting back ➡️ http://spkl.io/6180fW1P8

15/02/2025

What did energy transitions look like throughout the ages? A lesson from the history of energy 👇

A French scholar shows that when new sources of energy become prominent, the old ones are generally not phased out.

14/02/2025

🚺 🇲🇽 Although having women in top positions is progress, it does not mean all is achieved. 👉 https://lnkd.in/e9JrJqya

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