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Add us as your preferred source on Google to see more of our content in Search. Add to Preferred Sources The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the National Commission for UNESCO in the United Republic of Tanzania have reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening their longstanding partnership and advancing shared priorities in support of Tanzania’s sustainable development agenda, according to a press release issued on 17 September 2026.

Add us as your preferred source on Google to see more of our content in Search. Add to Preferred Sources The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a new USD 7.75 million contribution from the Danish Novo Nordisk Foundation to scale up actions ahead of forecasted weather shocks, including the potential impact of El Niño, according to a press release. Announced on 17 September 2026 from Rome, Italy, it marks the largest ever private sector investment in WFP anticipatory action.

Arrivals of migrants and refugees to Europe have fallen sharply in 2026, but fatalities along the Central Mediterranean routes continue to climb, according to a press release issued on 17 September 2026 by the International Organization for Migration (IOM). Nearly 60,000 people have arrived by sea so far this year, a 39 per cent decrease from the 98,040 recorded in the same period of 2025.

Add us as your preferred source on Google to see more of our content in Search. Add to Preferred Sources The Board of Executive Directors of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved a US$23.75 million financing package to expand electricity access for rural populations in Belize. The initiative aims to improve quality of life and economic opportunities in underserved areas, according to a press release. The approval was announced from Washington on September 17, 2026.

Add us as your preferred source on Google to see more of our content in Search. Add to Preferred Sources The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the European Union (EU) are joining forces to stimulate lending to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in Mongolia through a new financing product, according to a press release published on 17 September 2026.

As development budgets shrink, much of the current debate focuses on which programmes donors should protect and which they should cut. There is another question worth asking: how much of today’s development assistance is building the economic capacity that could finance tomorrow’s development? See also: Which development programs should donors keep and which ones to reduce? | Experts’ Opinions Health, education, food security, social protection and humanitarian assistance remain essential.

Add us as your preferred source on Google to see more of our content in Search. Add to Preferred Sources The World Health Organization (WHO) is developing updated guidance on asthma for primary care, to be published in early 2027, with patient safety positioned as a central concern, according to a departmental update by WHO. The forthcoming guidelines are aligned with World Patient Safety Day 2026, whose theme is “Safe care for noncommunicable diseases”.

If previously having high digital skills meant knowing how to turn on a computer, then today the bar is so high that even if an individual owns a smartphone and a working data plan, they must still know how to spot a fake job posting or verify the information provided by a chatbot to be considered digitally skilled.

Add us as your preferred source on Google to see more of our content in Search. Add to Preferred Sources The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing a sovereign loan of up to €344 million to Moldova to finance the rehabilitation and construction of strategic sections of the R7 and M3 roads, according to a press release issued by the EBRD on 16 September 2026.

Women and girls across the occupied West Bank are enduring escalating suffering as settler violence, military operations, and movement restrictions have reached their highest levels in two decades, according to a press release by еру  United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women). A new analysis reveals that women heading households are disproportionately affected by violence, home demolitions, and mobility constraints.