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In implementing the International Cooperation Strategy 2021-2024, the SDC plans to scale up its cooperation with the private sector and strike up new partnerships. How is this impacting developing countries?

Profound changes to ecological and social systems caused by global warming are now inevitable.

 “Treat the (climate) crisis as the emergency that it is” – this was the call made at this year’s Adaptation Summit by John Kerry, the new US Administration’s Climate Envoy. But those noble words were followed by scant financial commitments.

The Tanzanian Government has signed an agreement on nickel mining with a British corporation under which profits will be split equally. State interventions can also be observed in neighbouring Zambia.

In mid-November, hurricane “Iota” almost completely destroyed the Colombian island of Providencia. Its roughly 5000 residents lost everything, but are not giving up, says Hortencia Amor Cantillo, a direct victim.

Business-related human rights violations are frequent occurrences. Yet there is an international framework designed to provide solutions. This month marks the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.

During Swiss Federal Councillor Ignazio Cassis' official visit to North and West Africa from 7 to 13 February 2021, the priorities of the new MENA and Sub-Saharan Africa 2021-2024 strategies were at the heart of the discussions.

The 2030 Agenda rests on what is hitherto the most ambitious funding strategy for sustainable development. Is it realistic to think it possible to raise trillions for the sustainable development goals?

The increase in gender-based violence during lockdowns, labelled the “shadow pandemic” by the UN, threatens the lives and livelihoods of women and girls in Nigeria. There is a need for collective action, writes Oladosu Adenike Titilope.