Themes

Health care

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

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.
 

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.

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.

Agriculture

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

Urban development

Urbanisation is positive since cities are places of modernisation and economic growth. But it also has perverse effects.
 

Energy

There is an undeniable correlation between access to energy and human development.
 

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.

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.

Decentralisation

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

Fair trade

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.