In a recent digital event, former World Bank senior HR specialist Roberto Amorosino shared practical advice for navigating one of the toughest job markets the development sector has faced.

As fragile and conflict-affected countries face mounting climate threats, experts warn that limited finance is undermining both resilience and peace.

With aid flows declining, Africa50 is helping African governments tap pension funds, insurers, and sovereign wealth funds to finance infrastructure — and experimenting with tools like asset recycling to stretch limited capital further.

As negotiators arrive in Belém, the test is no longer setting new goals but delivering on old ones — from financing forests to closing NDC gaps and defining how adaptation progress is measured.

Experts are raising concern around a template for bilateral agreements between the U.S. and partner governments that includes pathogen sharing and agreements on automatic approval for American products.

At the Second World Summit on Social Development in Qatar, leaders wrestled with how war, fragility, and inequality threaten decades of progress.

As numerous factors shift the development job landscape, Devex looks at how these will play out for consultants in 2026.

The COP30 leaders’ summit ushers in the flagship global climate change conference with $5.5 billion pledged for the Tropical Forest Forever Facility. Plus, should vasectomies get a bigger public health push, and why is EIB sitting on €200 billion?

Join Devex as we trek across Madagascar to hear the stories of those who’ve worked to keep polio at bay.

A year after Sierra Leone banned child marriage, first lady Fatima Maada Bio tells Devex how personal experience fueled her fight — and what comes next for women and girls.

AFC's Samaila Zubairu wants to help the continent fund its own development.

During Devex Impact House @ WB/IMF, civil society and financial leaders gathered to examine how local players are reshaping governance reforms from within IMF programs.

This week: what experts have told us about how to best navigate a challenging development job market; featured new job leads; and more.

Opinion: A bipartisan law on the inclusion of women in peace and security efforts requires a report to be published, updating Congress on progress. It is now overdue, dealing a powerful blow to U.S. global leadership in the peace agenda.

How can governments ensure that digital public infrastructure (DPI) is inclusive? According to Priya Jayaraman from the eGov Foundation, weaving inclusion into the strategy from the very beginning ensures services reach people who need them the most, precisely when they need them. #GlobalDPISummit

For this special episode of our weekly podcast series, cohosts Raj Kumar and Robin Pomeroy sit down with experts to discuss the seismic financial shock wave that has hit the aid sector and explore the models needed to unlock private capital and sustain development progress.

New investments aim to slash methane from fossil fuels, rice paddies and landfills — targeting the gas responsible for a third of current warming.

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United Cities and Local Governments highlights how cities and regions are redefining governance and rights from the ground up, advancing a multilateralism that delivers — grounded in proximity, solidarity, and shared responsibility.

S&P Global Ratings has changed the way it evaluates MDB risk, and says it could unlock up to $800 billion. The question now is whether other rating agencies follow suit

While there were significant development job cuts in Africa this year, professionals in the region could see opportunities in emerging hubs across the continent, particularly around AI and digital skills.

New data on the American philanthropy workforce shows an increase in female CEOs and people of color in full-time grantmaking roles, while the foundation CEO gender pay gap is closing.

How the family planning sector is responding to global funding cuts. Plus, UNFPA’s new executive director fights a dwindling budget and misinformation, and Atul Gawande speaks out — again.

In a recent digital careers event, a panel of sector career experts helped development professionals make sense of the current U.S. job market and potential paths worth considering.

Jesper Brodin believes his crisis-tested experience at IKEA could help stabilize the U.N. agency; the U.N. makes a bet on Nairobi as a thriving hub; and the Baku to Belém Roadmap has been released ahead of COP30.

What is UNDP's strategy for Digital Public Infrastructure? According to Robert Opp from UNDP, the conversation around Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) needs to shift. He argues that DPI is a holistic approach, not just a technology. #GlobalDPISummit #DPI #globaldevelopment

For years, development finance leaders have talked about the need to attract private capital. But what can we learn from the deals that have already taken place?

We analyzed salary data shared with Devex related to monitoring & evaluation jobs, containing average salaries between regions, sectors, and the organizations currently hiring M&E professionals.

At a moment when multilateralism is under strain, Baerbock argued that climate shocks, aid cuts, and conflict are reversing social progress — and backed reforms to make the U.N. system “more agile” and able to deliver on the SDGs.

Senegal’s experiment with bilingual education is showing how teaching children in the languages they speak at home can boost learning.

United Nations agencies chase cost savings in the global south, while relocating staff to the region it serves.

Takeaways from our coverage of Devex Career Week, including how AI is affecting the development jobs market and how BD roles have changed in development this year.

Many key development roles have been affected by aid cuts in 2025. Devex took a look at some of the main roles in the aid sector to see how they have been affected.

Everything we’re watching in Belém. Plus, how WFP is using AI, and the Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty shifts into execution mode.

Opinion: While the continent is being mined for minerals critical to green energy transitions around the globe, its own potential energy transition is limited by lack of investment incentives into low-carbon nuclear power.

Opinion: “New data and satellite images give us the power to adapt how we store, share, and safeguard the water we have” — helping countries turn water scarcity into an opportunity for smarter growth.

One year after its launch, the Brazil-backed initiative is beginning to show its results — even amid bureaucratic bottlenecks and financing gaps.

The central African region has received a total of $17.7 billion in official development assistance from 2019-2023. Who are the biggest donors? Which country and sector received the most aid? Devex analyzed the numbers to find out.

Or a bit of both?

U.S. development professionals might be looking across borders for their next job. Not so fast.

Opinion: Drug resistance in malaria already led to a spike in deaths in the early 2000s. Now history may repeat itself — but we have the experience to avert this crisis.

“If DPI is seen as one more solution, then we missed the point. It’s a pattern of thinking.” At the #GlobalDPISummit, Sanjay Purohit argues the main barrier isn’t technical — it’s conceptual. The mindset shift might be where real scale begins. #GDPIS25 #DPI

@tlamanauskas.bsky.social at the #GlobalDPISummit: The shift needed? Stop funding sectors independently. Start building the digital foundations that make everything else possible. #GDPIS25

With the development hub in Washington, D.C., fragmented, professionals are moving on.

Ikea's outgoing CEO eyes the top UN Refugee Agency post.

Opinion: In many LMICs, breast cancer reconstruction is still seen as a luxury. Training local surgeons, addressing stigma, and investing in infrastructure can make women’s comprehensive cancer care a reality — not an afterthought.

Integrating professional education, clinical implementation, and stronger community care around cardio-kidney-metabolic syndrome offers a timely path to reduce noncommunicable disease burden and optimize global health system resources.

MSI has received funding from governments and foundations for years. But the makeup of those grants has changed over time. Government grants have increasingly focused on low-income countries, while funding for middle-income countries has gradually reduced.

How a once-dominant investment strategy fell out of favor — and why it may be poised for a comeback.

A USAID-backed moringa project in Uganda offered rural farmers modest payments and a rare path toward stability. Then the funding stopped for good.