There has been a steady flow of compelling development news stories in 2016. Behind the scenes of most of these stories, policymakers and development leaders are mulling critical, nuts and bolts funding decisions that impact the way development gets done.
Tracking where the finite amount of development funds are going and how they are being spent is no easy task so Devex has tried to step in and step up, focusing our development funding coverage on a range of important issues, including procurement trends of the world’s major bilateral donors, analysis of the most high-profile development challenges — such as climate change and the refugee crisis — and the new and promising sources of development finance that are changing the environment as we know it.
Here are the development funding themes that attracted the highest interest from our community and stories that were most widely read and shared in 2016.
About the author
Pete Troilo
Former director of global advisory and analysis, Pete managed all Devex research and analysis operations worldwide and monitors key trends in the global development business. Prior to joining Devex, Pete was a political and security risk consultant with a focus on Southeast Asia. He has also advised the U.S. government on foreign policy and led projects for the Asian Development Bank and International Finance Corp. He still consults for Devex on a project basis.
