Development

News Hour: Japan is home to a number of cities offering world-class and unique “best-practice” experiences and solutions on a variety of development challenge facing cities around the globe. As part of an ongoing partnership with...

News Hour: A convoy of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), Government and UN partners reached Pilikambi Rural Local Level Government (LLG) last week to monitor food distributions to communities affected by El-Nino-related drought and...

News Hour: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said today it will extend its emergency operation in eastern Ukraine to provide more than 280,000 conflict-affected people in the region with food assistance until the end...

News Hour: The prestigious World Food Prize has this year been awarded to 4 scientists from the DFID-funded international agriculture research organisation, the CGIAR. Maria Andrade, Robert Mwanga and Jan Low from the International Potato Center...

News Hour: The bipartisan Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act of 2015 (H.R. 3766) is one step closer to becoming law after the Senate unanimously approved passage late Tuesday night. Save the Children thanks bill sponsors...

News Hour: World Bank Vice President for East Asia and Pacific, Victoria Kwakwa, is visiting Cambodia during July 4 – 6. This is Ms. Kwakwa’s first official visit to Cambodia since her appointment in April 2016....

News Hour: 54,000 girls under 18 are forced into the sex trade in Uganda. However, a girl doesn’t need much to turn her life around. Hawa, a graduate of a Plan International-supported project, has set up...

News Hour: Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Takehiko Nakao and New Development Bank (NDB) President K.V. Kamath signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on cooperation here today. The signing ceremony took place during Mr. Kamath’s visit...

News Hour: A new multi-sectoral initiative to accelerate action to prevent teenage pregnancy and child marriage will help protect the rights of thousands of girls in Uganda. The Better Life for Girls (BL4G) Initiative in Uganda...

News Hour: “Fuel for Change” is a short documentary about the traditional method of cooking with charcoal in Haiti and its impact on people’s well-being and Haiti’s fragile forests. Incredibly, nearly all of Haiti’s 10 million...