Fortune: How Bill and Melinda Gates Are Transforming Life for Billions in the 21st Century “The Gates Foundation is transforming the lives of billions of people — but it wouldn’t be the force it has become without the distinctive visions of the couple behind it. The staff of Fortune recently…

IMFBlog: Financing for Sustainable Development: Tackling Big Challenges Christopher Lane, special representative of the IMF to the United Nations, discusses challenges in financing development and highlights four recommendations from a new study that discusses how “to better align financing with investments in the Sustainable Development Goals.” The recommendations include: “Develop…

FT Health: Foreign aid and the threat to multilateralism The latest issue of the Financial Times’ weekly global health newsletter discusses an analysis from the Center for Global Development on the effectiveness of U.K. aid, features a chart on worldwide measles cases, and provides a round-up of global health-related news…

Agence France-Presse: In South Sudan, illness is as deadly as war (4/19). Borgen Magazine: Positive Deviance: A Solution for Malnutrition in Vietnam? (Newsome, 4/18). Health24: Common contraceptive could raise TB risk, study finds (4/18). Inter Press Service: Egypt’s Food Challenge: a Good Effort but Not Enough (Srour, 4/18). The Lancet:…

Devex: CERF: The fund that functions ‘like the ambulance for the U.N.’ “Mark Lowcock, head of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, last week announced the largest ever disbursement from the Central Emergency Response Fund, the U.N. mechanism for allocating unearmarked humanitarian dollars. The $125 million for…

Fast Company: TED just raised $280 million for 8 world-changing projects “Last year, TED announced the Audacious Project: a massive philanthropic effort to fund projects tackling specific but pernicious issues across the globe. … For the 2019 cohort, TED has raised another $280 million for another eight projects, and that…

New Humanitarian: What Brexit means for U.K. NGOs and foreign aid “Brexit throws up a lot of questions for the U.K.’s role in international relief. Will British NGOs have to shrink once cut off from E.U. funding? How might the U.K. pool its aid funding with the E.U. if it’s…

Xinhua News: U.N. forum reviews implementation of 2030 agenda in Africa “The 5th session of the Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development (ARFSD) kicked off Wednesday in the Moroccan city of Marrakech to review the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda. The two-day forum is meant…

The Telegraph: Asian leaders focus on malaria as region leads the world in fight against the disease “Asia has made ‘extraordinary’ progress towards eliminating malaria, but is still in danger of relapse if funds dry up, one of the most senior officials leading the fight against the mosquito-borne disease, has…

Financial Times: Philanthropy’s blighted reputation threatens global giving Phil Buchanan, president of the Center for Effective Philanthropy “Charitable giving worldwide supports a diverse and vital group of non-government organizations working on issues from disaster relief and global poverty to educational opportunities for girls. But today, at least in the U.S.,…