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Devex Invested: In Sevilla, the heat is on to get development finance back on track

3 days ago | devex.com | Jesse Chase-Lubitz

With just six days to go before the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development, or FfD4, global leaders are preparing to gather in sun-scorched Sevilla, Spain, where temperatures are expected to approach 43 degrees Celsius (110°F). (Pack a hat.
Devex Pro Insider: The race to salvage USAID's institutional memory

4 days ago | devex.com | Michael Igoe

Elon Musk claimed U.S. aid officials refused to produce evidence of their results. Then he destroyed all of the records showing U.S. aid results, eliminating a body of knowledge that could have been mined to transform the agency. This is a special Saturday edition of Devex Pro Insider from Senior Reporter Michael Igoe.
A Q&A with the woman who helped shape the Sevilla Platform for Action

1 week ago | devex.com | Jesse Chase-Lubitz

After countries signed off on the draft outcome document for the FfD4, UNDESA official Shari Spiegel lays out what’s left to do in Sevilla. As nations prepare for the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development, or FfD4, in Sevilla, Spain, this month, Shari Spiegel is a central figure to watch.
Devex Newswire: How one nonprofit beat the odds and survived Trump’s purge

1 week ago | devex.com | Anna Gawel

Under President Donald Trump, most aid organizations have seen their U.S. funds evaporate, not preserved. But there have been a lucky few. We look at one of them and its journey. Also in today’s edition: Why the U.N.’s relocation plans for Kenya make logistical and symbolic sense.
Devex Newswire: As aid organizations mull mergers, some words of wisdom

1 week ago | devex.com | Anna Gawel

They say necessity is the mother of invention. Well, aid organizations certainly need to get inventive nowadays to survive — and consolidating forces may be one way to do it. Also in today’s edition: UNAIDS faces up to a grim future, and philanthropy contends with politics. + The White House has made its stance clear: Countries must take on more responsibility for their own HIV programs.
How restrictive laws and hostile politics harm global philanthropy

1 week ago | devex.com | Lauren Evans

With global crises multiplying and government aid spending in sharp decline, eyes are increasingly trained on philanthropy to step up. Yet the act of giving, especially across borders, is being hampered by tightening restrictions threatening to blunt its impact. These are among the findings of Indiana University’s recently released Global Philanthropy Environment Index 2025, a sweeping analysis that evaluates the legal, political, and economic conditions for philanthropy across 95 economies.
What it's like to deliver food aid to war-torn Sudan

1 week ago | devex.com | Rebecca Root

Sudan is home to theworld's worst humanitarian crisis in terms of the number of people affected — and as humanitarian aid from traditional sources disappears globally, it’s likely that more people will die of hunger, according to Leni Kinzli, the World Food Programme’s spokesperson for the country. “It's a matter of life and death. If that money doesn't come in, the cost will be in lives lost,” she told Devex.
Mergers and acquisitions take on added importance in wake of aid cuts

1 week ago | devex.com | Anna Gawel

The development industry is in survival mode, and that means mergers and acquisitions, or M&A, could be the key for companies — large and small — to withstand today’s tsunami of aid cuts. But M&A transactions are a complicated affair, and the stars still need to align for all parties to not only survive the storm but thrive once it passes.
Devex Newswire: US says ‘no thanks’ to global development deal

1 week ago | devex.com | Helen Murphy

The Trump administration has pulled out of U.N. talks on financing development goals — and a major development finance summit — objecting to proposals for U.N.-led debt negotiations and increased development bank lending. Also in today’s edition: What’s happening with the tax on foundations in Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” and a well-worn clash at climate finance negotiations in Bonn.
Climate negotiations in Bonn begin with familiar finance clash

1 week ago | devex.com | Jesse Chase-Lubitz

Negotiations at the midyear United Nations climate summit in Bonn, Germany, started off on the wrong foot as delegates spent the first 17 hours brawling over whether to put an article on public finance on the agenda. The specific article that developing countries wanted on the agenda was Article 9.1 of the Paris Agreement, which refers to the “provision” of public finance — or bilateral government funding from developed to developing countries.