A spotlight session at the Global Refugee Forum on best practices and lessons learned in development financing to support the forcibly displaced.

Optimizing solar panels has long been a challenge for scientists and engineers. Now, however, they can reach further towards the ideal with the help of self-bending polymer, which gives solar panels the power of a sunflower. In a paper published in Nature Nanotechnology scientists describe a sunflower-like biomimetic omnidirectional tracker […]

Source: World Health Organization Country: Democratic Republic of the Congo To ensure continued care, WHO has mounted a limited daily helicopter “air bridge” operation to the communities still at risk, who faced insecurity due to ongoing violence by armed groups. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has seen an […]

Issue Post December 13, 2019 Can weather index insurance help farmers adapt to climate change? Berber Kramer Technology and data on farming conditions can help reduce exposure to risk. Fourth in a series.

Innovative partnerships, investment and technical exchange through South-South and Triangular Cooperation are critical for countries especially in the global South to address climate change and achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. This was the message from FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu, when he spoke to the High-Level Forum on South-South Cooperation […]

This paper reviews expanded healthcare in 49 countries.