Go beyond the global development headlines with our collection of in-depth Devex explainers.
Just what have countries been negotiating for more than a year in Geneva?
It may be complicated and confusing, but this video breaks down how it all works.
The gender gap in food insecurity has sharply increased. Devex explores the factors holding back progress and how development organizations are responding.
The Global Shield was pitched as a potential solution to concerns about climate-related loss and damage. But some worry it could end up being a distraction from COP 27's hard won loss and damage fund. Read on in this DevExplains.
We explain what longtermism means, how tech billionaires have tainted it, and what the U.N. could do to restore some of its sheen.
Inside the IPC process to declare a famine.
WHO's Tedros is hopeful it can put an end to classifying COVID-19 as a global health emergency in 2023. But what’s the criteria for determining a global health emergency is no longer one, and what happens if it's lifted for COVID-19?
The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 hasn't been comprehensively updated in nearly 40 years. That process breakdown comes with costs for aid reform and oversight.
The GFA is a recognition that years of U.S. policy in places such as Iraq and Afghanistan failed, and a new approach to conflict prevention is needed.
After years of hard negotiations, the COP 27 climate summit resulted in countries agreeing to establish a fund to pay for climate-related losses and damages. But the agreement has opened up new rifts which are likely to dominate climate talks for years.
The Global Fund hopes to send country allocation letters before the year ends, which kicks off the whole funding request process.
Official development assistance is the primary measure of high income countries' contribution to development. But is it a reliable measure? Not very, say two experts in the field.
Planetary health is an emerging multidisciplinary lens that researchers and NGOs are using to assess global health threats from an environmental perspective. Here's what it means and how it could be useful as we prepare for the future.
Article 6 of the Paris Agreement allows countries to transfer internationally transferred mitigation options — ITMOs — or carbon credits earned from the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to help other countries meet climate targets.
Which is the largest organization in the world of development? It depends who you ask. And what you're counting.
A movement in the United Kingdom is in the process of developing a common set of rules to cover the accounts of every NGO. Why does this matter and how long is it likely to take?
The U.K. is once again in febrile political and economic times, and the aid budget is facing a third round of cuts in as many years. Devex outlines all the different factors pressuring the U.K.'s beleaguered development program.