While my colleagues — and many of you working in global health — raced across New York last week during the 81st session of the U.N. General Assembly, another race was heating up in Geneva.

Short-term contracts have dominated development hiring this year, accounting for nearly half of all opportunities posted on Devex’s job board in the first six months of 2026. While that might sound ...

Kirsty McNeill has laid out a vision for international aid that is based on “mutual interest” between the global north and south. The United Kingdom’s new development minister wants to change her job ...

A year and a half after USAID cuts began, advocacy groups say the fallout has moved from "catastrophic" to a lasting structural crisis. Ninety percent of LGBTQ+ rights groups across the globe have ...

Ahead of UNGA, the U.S. paid $725 million to cover its share of the U.N.’s 2025 regular budget and $102 million in peacekeeping fees. Plus, an encouraging word from the U.K.’s new development minister ...

For Amina Mohammed, the United Nations deputy secretary-general, it’s crunch time for the U.N.’s development mission. “We are facing an existential threat,” she said at a town hall meeting of the U.N.

This comes in the wake of a heated dispute between the organization and the United Kingdom-based Islamic Relief Worldwide — which ousted the American organization from its federation. Islamic R elief ...

Opinion: Israel’s government is not its development community. Isolation risks shutting out humanitarian and development innovators and practitioners with much to contribute. As world leaders prepare ...

United Kingdom-based Islamic Relief Worldwide has ousted the nonprofit Islamic Relief USA from its global federation — which it said means the U.S. organization “no longer has the right to operate or ...

A big chunk of the funding is for the U.N. Population Fund’s Supplies Partnership, which supports 54 countries in securing and expanding access to reproductive health commodities. Government and ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has nominated Elliott Hulse to be the CEO of the Millennium Challenge Corporation. He now awaits a Senate hearing and will need to be confirmed before he gets the job. With ...

The most senior Trump administration official to enter the U.N. system set to take the reins at WFP. Plus, Gates and OpenAI Foundation bet on AI for livelihoods and forecasts. The world’s largest ...