Multi-stakeholder consultations for the Mauritania E-commerce Strategy
Event June 17 – 18, 2025 - Venue/Format: Nouakchott (Mauritania)Organizer: UNCTAD
From Relief to Resilience in Somalia: Harnessing Research to Inform Social Protection Policy and Practice.
Event June 16, 2025 - Venue/Format: VirtualOrganizer: IFPRI
AI synergy: Letting local realities guide global AI innovation toward impact.
Stories & Blogs World Bank (Blog )Artificial Intelligence (AI) may be global in its reach—but its impact is deeply local.
Managing water resources near Mount Kilimanjaro
Stories & Blogs UNSDG (Story )“We must protect our forests and water sources. By preserving the environment, we get in return water from Mount Kilimanjaro’, Florida Paul Mwanga.
Hunger crisis threatens West and Central Africa as lean season looms : WFP races to provide food assistance to millions on the brink.
Stories & Blogs WPF (Story )Hunger and Sudan’s horrific war pushed Abdelminime Moussa from his homeland. Sitting in the sand at eastern Chad’s Koursigue refugee camp…
New data tools enhance the development effectiveness of tourism investment.
Stories & Blogs World Bank (Blog )A World Bank-Visa collaboration analyzes credit card spending to collect better data for sustainable tourism development
The progress of human development – as measured by people’s freedoms and well-being – has remained sluggish since the major shock of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Stories & Blogs United Nations (Story )The progress of human development – as measured by people’s freedoms and well-being – has remained sluggish since the major shock of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A big step forward for mapping political transition across Africa
Stories & Blogs UNDP – Africa (Press Release )The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the African Union Commission convened a pivotal validation workshop for the African Transition Index (ATI) in Addis Ababa.
The hidden jobs engine: unleashing the potential of agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa.
Stories & Blogs World Bank (Blog )A common misunderstanding persists about job creation in Africa. Many envision cities as the epicenters of economic opportunity.
Humanitarian funding cuts threaten women’s rights: What’s at stake and how to help.
Stories & Blogs UN-Women (Article )UN Women’s latest research shows that half of women’s rights and women-led organizations in countries affected by humanitarian crisis may shut down within six months due to global funding cuts, with catastrophic impact on women and families in most need.