
This Week in Global Dev: #14: USAID's staffing shortages & country-owned strategies in development
This week Devex Climate Correspondent William Worley sat down with Meike van Ginneken, the Netherlands’ special envoy for water, who argued that we should be prioritizing investment to help overcome i...
1 Sep 202331min

This Week in Global Dev: #13: Open Society Foundations' reorganization, and World Water Week
For the latest episode of the podcast, I am joined by global strategy and development leader Nasra Ismail and Devex Business Editor David Ainsworth to discuss the top stories in global development, in...
25 Aug 202334min

This Week in Global Dev: #12: U.S. and allies block key UN agreement and Germany's aid cuts
This week we broke an exclusive story on the United States, the United Kingdom, and a handful of allied powers blocking an agreement on a draft declaration that advocates the need to accelerate progre...
11 Aug 202333min

This Week in Global Dev: #11: USAID’s record breaking localization push & the impact of UK aid cuts
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

This Week in Global Dev: #10: The UK's refugee bill and a call to fight HIV and AIDS
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 Juli 202335min

This Week in Global Dev: #9: The latest from Women Deliver, WHO rotation, and BRAC localization
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 Juli 202331min

This Week in Global Dev: #8: AI adoption's risk and rewards, and a US aid agency returns to office
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 Juli 202337min

This Week in Global Dev: #7: WHO's updated malnutrition guidance and China's plan to cut UN funding
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 Juli 202327min




















