A high-profile departure highlights tensions at FAO. Plus, we preview cross-disciplinary panels at Bangkok.

Opinion: As artificial intelligence reshapes the global economy, how do we ensure it works for the world’s poor?

Renee Laverdiere of Boston Consulting Group joins Devex’s Raj Kumar for a special podcast on bridging the AI impact gap through workforce reskilling, data governance, and organizational transformation in global development.

This year’s secretary-general selection could be of particular significance because the United Nations may choose its first-ever woman leader.

Amazon is investing more than $1 billion over the next five years into communities where it operates data centers for education, job training, water preservation projects and other local priorities as it reacts to a growing backlash from politicians and consumers to the tech industry’s rollout of it

The Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data and the Open Data Institute (ODI) have launched a joint effort to create the institutional, technical, and governance conditions that allow data to be managed, shared, and used to ensure that artificial intelligence (AI) in public services is b

Africa should focus its use of technology on solving its own real challenges rather than copying the systems and priorities of other parts of the world.

Press conference by Sarah Hendricks, Director of Policy, Programme and Intergovernmental Division at UN Women; and Shantanu Mukherjee, Acting Director of the Statistics Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, on the launch of the Gender Snapshot Report 2026.

ISO and UNDP launched ISO/UNDP 53001, Management systems for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – Requirements, the world’s first International Standard to help organizations integrate the SDGs into their strategy, governance and operations through a structured management system.

The three-year initiative aims to bring weather and crop disease forecasts to 100 million smallholder farmers — and the OpenAI Foundation’s Anna Makanju tells Devex that more ambitious global investments are coming.

There is an urgent need not only to accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), but also to begin reflecting on how the international community can renew and strengthen its commitment to poverty eradication in the decades ahead. Poverty must remain at the centre of global development efforts beyond 2030.

Explore UN Women’s Gender Snapshot 2026, assessing how women’s and girls’ rights are faring across all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

YouTube video by Clinton Global Initiative

Artificial intelligence is reshaping how we learn, work, connect, and belong. The ground beneath our collective life is shifting and with it come profound questions about human development, culture, community, and what it means to be human.

Upcoming events Watch the Live NYC Event September 21, 2026 at 6pm ET  Goalkeepers New York 2026 September 21 Goalkeepers New York brings together storytelling, music, and dialogue to explore one of t...

How do you make sense of a world facing interconnected crises, from poverty and hunger to climate change, if the facts are scattered across dozens of different places?

This year, SDGCounting is looking beyond the biggest stages to find the people, tools, and ideas turning better information into better outcomes.

Ahead of the UN General Assembly’s high-level week, Secretary-General António Guterres said the world had entered “an era of deep uncertainty” and urged governments to embrace international cooperation to address global threats.

UNDP's RAPIDA response is designed to support decisions while more detailed assessments are still underway

On 21-23 September 2026, on the occasion of the United Nations General Assembly, the World Economic Forum will host the Sustainable Development Impact Meetings.

The post-2030 debate now unfolding is not only about whether the SDGs are extended, revised, or replaced. The deeper challenge is systemic – ideating a collective architecture capable of governing complex transitions across ecological, social, economic, technological, institutional, and financial systems.

New Goalkeepers Report: AI could be a great equalizer, but only if it’s built intentionally to benefit the people who need it most.

AI, EQUITY, AND THE CHOICE WE CAN’T DELAY.

The United Nations’ ambitious development agenda aims to protect people and the planet via seventeen goals. But experts say governments aren’t doing enough to implement them ahead of the 2030 deadline.

Opinion: Funding cuts jeopardize the data pipeline essential for projecting future risks of food insecurity and acute malnutrition.