Public Development Banks provide affordable financing, direct resources where urgently needed and align funding with ...

The U.S. is once again withdrawing from the United Nations' UNESCO program with the Trump administration labeling the ...

The United Nation’s top development diplomat has stepped down after nearly two decades of leading two of the organisation’s ...

With less than 80 days until the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) runs out of legal authority to ...

The report lays bare the far-reaching consequences of sudden international funding cuts, including halted treatment services, defunded prevention programmes, and widespread health system disruptions.

According to the United Nations, the world needs an extra $4 trillion every year to tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges – ending poverty and hunger, fighting climate change, and reducing ...

Punta del Este, Uruguay, 20 June 2025 – Against a challenging geopolitical backdrop and in a major move to protect people and planet, countries today came together to agree a new global science-policy ...

The world’s largest and most influential development bank said on Wednesday it would lift its longstanding ban on funding nuclear power projects.

In the reformed UN Development System, Resident Coordinators (RCs) and United Nations Country Teams (UNCTs) play a key role in supporting member states advance the implementation of the MEAs and ...

Human development progress is experiencing an unprecedented slowdown according to a new report released today by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The report shows how Artificial ...

The 2025 Human Development Report explores the implications of artificial intelligence for human development and the choices we can make to ensure that it enhances human capabilities. Rather than ...

Countries should consider looking beyond Gross Domestic Product, or GDP, as the key measure of economic growth to achieve the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), UN policymakers have ...