USAID's localization update and controversy over UK aid
This week USAID released its long-awaited localization update. Despite the progress made, not least due to the success of the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, the agency is ...
16 Jun 202327min
The unexpected struggle to reauthorize PEPFAR and a new World Bank era
While usually during the summer period news is expected to slow down, it was certainly not the case for the first couple of days of June. As the unexpected struggle to reauthorize PEPFAR continues and...
9 Jun 202328min
The future of localization and the humanitarian-development nexus
Seven years ago, the United Nations' World Humanitarian Summit proposed the "humanitarian-development nexus" to improve collaboration between the two ends of the aid sector. Although it was initially ...
30 Apr 202330min
What to make of this year’s World Bank Spring Meetings
The World Bank and International Monetary Fund’s Spring Meetings have come to an end this weekend. A great sense of change was anticipated for this year’s event, as Devex wrote last week.But what do w...
17 Apr 202330min
