While my colleagues — and many of you working in global health — raced across New York last week during the 81st session of the U.N. General Assembly, another race was heating up in Geneva.

The world’s Nordic countries have long been some of the most generous, with three of the five nations — Norway, Sweden, and Denmark — giving between 0.72% and 1.03% of their gross national income to ...

A big chunk of the funding is for the U.N. Population Fund’s Supplies Partnership, which supports 54 countries in securing and expanding access to reproductive health commodities. Government and ...

For Amina Mohammed, the United Nations deputy secretary-general, it’s crunch time for the U.N.’s development mission. “We are facing an existential threat,” she said at a town hall meeting of the U.N.

This comes in the wake of a heated dispute between the organization and the United Kingdom-based Islamic Relief Worldwide — which ousted the American organization from its federation. Islamic R elief ...

Ahead of UNGA, the U.S. paid $725 million to cover its share of the U.N.’s 2025 regular budget and $102 million in peacekeeping fees. Plus, an encouraging word from the U.K.’s new development minister ...

Opinion: Israel’s government is not its development community. Isolation risks shutting out humanitarian and development innovators and practitioners with much to contribute. As world leaders prepare ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has nominated Elliott Hulse to be the CEO of the Millennium Challenge Corporation. He now awaits a Senate hearing and will need to be confirmed before he gets the job. With ...

The Trump administration plans to reduce health aid by almost 60% a year. Plus, a look inside the IKEA Foundation’s grant strategy and a new leader for foreign assistance at the U.S. State Department.

Muraho! I’m writing this edition from Kigali, where the Africa Food Systems Forum — the biggest annual gathering of government leaders, financiers, development organizations, researchers, farmers, and ...

Immigration hard-liner Andrew Veprek takes over leadership of the foreign assistance bureau at the U.S. State Department. Plus, closing out Food for Peace programs, and DFC’s accountability problem.

Veprek became the head of the State Department’s foreign assistance, humanitarian affairs and religious freedom bureau on Aug. 28, following the departure of Jeremy Lewin earlier this month. Andrew ...