Devex Podcasts

This week Devex reported that the U.S. Agency for International Development saw a record-breaking obligation to local contractors in 2022, up 169.8% in real terms from the previous year. While this is...

4 Aug 202335min

While we usually expect the summer months to be slower than usual, it has certainly not been the case over the past week. In an exclusive Devex story, we found out that the Organisation for Economic C...

28 Jul 202335min

This week we’re closely following the conversations that took place at the Women Deliver conference in Kigali, Rwanda, which brought together thousands of people from diverse fields to help elevate wo...

21 Jul 202331min

This year is seeing the proliferation of AI technology in our lives, which is having a big effect on the way many of us carry out our daily tasks in the workplace. From improving disaster response to ...

14 Jul 202337min

Last week, the World Health Organization released its long-awaited updated guidance on the prevention and management of malnutrition in children, which aims to reduce child mortality through starvatio...

7 Jul 202327min

High interest rates are threatening the gains made in financial inclusion over the past decade, with investors backing off riskier investments especially in inclusive fintech, as reported by Devex’s S...

30 Jun 202334min

While usually during the summer, news is expected to slow down, that was certainly not the case for the first weeks in June. As the unexpected struggle to reauthorize PEPFAR, the U.S. global AIDS init...

23 Jun 202328min

This week USAID released its long-awaited localization update. Despite the progress made, not least due to the success of the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, the agency is ...

23 Jun 202327min