Themes

Agriculture & Rural Development

Agriculture and rural development are essential to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger by half by 2015 (MDG 1).
 

Health care

Poor health is not just an individual human drama. It plays an important part in poverty and underdevelopment.
 

Education

Regardless of a spectacular improvement of access to education since 2000, there are still about 75 million children worldwide who do not attend school.

Decentralisation

To effectively fight poverty, the government of a country has to be structured well and function properly.
 

Water & sanitation

In many developing countries large parts of the population have no regular access to improved drinking water. This situation is all the more blatant in rural areas.

Environment & climate

Human sustainable development and the fight against poverty cannot be considered anymore without an in-depth reflection on the evolution of environmental data.

Gender equality

Gender equality is a fundamental right. It is an essential condition to fight poverty, to achieve sustainable development, and to get decent work and obtain social coherence.

Aids & HIV

At the end of 2008 there were 33 million people infected with HIV worldwide. In that same year two million people died of AIDS.
 

Social economy

If done properly, trade can significantly contribute to reducing poverty and inequality and to boosting human development. It enables populations to access a broader set of goods, services, technologies and know-how. It stimulates the private sector and creates employment.

Governance

Governance concerns the capacity of a state to deliver basic services to its citizens. It determines how civil society participates to decision-making.