Development

World’s largest conference on gender equality opens in Vancouver with a call to redefine power at every level – Heads of state from four nations sat side-by-side young leaders and grassroots advocates as delegates from more...

International donors pledged to contribute $1.2 billion to help rebuild areas and infrastructure destroyed by cyclones Kenneth and Idai in Mozambique, according to the United Nations, less than half the amount the government says is needed....

Inadequate government allocation, shortage of manpower, outdated laws and rules unable to address present needs, flawed development plans and programs are plaguing the municipalities as they strive to provide different services to the ever-increasing urban population....

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency and Qatar Charity (QC) have signed today three agreements worth USD 4 million, in support of UNHCR operations in Iraq, Bangladesh and Yemen. These agreements were signed at QC’s headquarters in...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed a $4 million loan with a unique purpose vehicle and subsidiaries owned by the 77 Construction, Contracting, and Trading Group (77 Group), an international civil works contracting firm headquartered...

UK aid to the World Health Organisation will address urgent gaps in trauma and emergency care, including by establishing a new limb reconstruction unit. The new Minister for the Middle East, Dr Andrew Murrison, has today...

The 10th Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights (APCRSHR10) will be held in Siem Reap, Cambodia from May 26-29, 2020. Reproductive Health Association of Cambodia (RHAC), the leading SRHR organization with which...

Transparency International Brazil presents new information for tracking the progress of grand corruption cases in Latin America involving Brazilian civil construction company Odebrecht. The data was compiled in a joint project between Transparency International Brazil, Proética...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved financing of up to $2.75 billion for the construction of 53.1 kilometers (km) of a passenger railway connecting Malolos, a suburb north of Manila, to Clark economic zone and...

In 12th DW Global Media Forum 2019, More than 2,000 media professionals and decision-makers representing the various profession and society from 140 countries will discuss “Shifting powers” on May 27-28, 2019. Germany’s Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier...