over 13 years ago // In the news: Events and conferences
With sustainability topping the post-2015 development agenda, issues created by global urbanization will have to be addressed in conjunction with greener concerns. At this week’s World Urban Forum in Italy, the aid agenda is fitting itself into traditional urban planning and forward-looking sustainability conversations.
over 13 years ago // News analysis: Water and sanitation
At World Water Week in Stockholm, which ends today, advocates for water, sanitation and hygiene interventions are pulling out the hard evidence that mainstreaming WASH is the best way to achieve development goals.. Devex spoke with one the issue’s champions.
over 13 years ago // In the news: Food security
As one of the world’s major rice producers, Southeast Asia can impact global food trading. The Asian Development Bank recommends establishing a commodities exchange and rice index to ensure stable rice prices not only for the region but also worldwide, averting what many fears as a possible repeat of 2008. Devex discusses the role development partners can play to help the Asian rice markets work.
over 13 years ago // In the news: Ghana
Ghana is on track to halve poverty by 2015, but not everyone is benefiting. A newly announced Millennium Village in the northern part of the country hopes to address deep pockets of poverty.
over 13 years ago // Business Insight: USAID
The U.S. Agency for International Development has been known for its particularly cumbersome process and frequent delays in awarding field work. But over the past few years, delays have become worse, implementers tell Devex. Here’s why.
over 13 years ago // In the news: Funding
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has approved 45 proposals from 37 different countries, awarding grants totaling $419.8 million. The projects were given “on an exceptional basis” through a Transitional Funding Mechanism, launched as a preemptive effort to safeguard gains the organization feared would be lost after the normal proposal cycle was canceled.
over 13 years ago // In the news: Somalia
A U.N. employee was killed in a targeted attack in southern Somalia — a setback in the international campaign to deliver aid to the famished region controlled by al-Shabab militants.
over 13 years ago // In the news: Funding
Nigeria’s malaria prevention and treatment programs just received a $225 million boost from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, including a grant tied to the African country’s additional commitments.
over 13 years ago // In the news: Aid worker security
Three aid workers were sentenced in a courtroom in Myanmar: The charges against them had never been revealed, and the United Nations has never been allowed to meet with them.
over 13 years ago // In the news: Inclusive development
Recognizing inequality as a development challenge, the EU Commission released its first ever communication on social protection. Devex gives you a rundown of the vision behind it, and the steps ahead.