The International Labour Organization (ILO) has launched this learning portal to transform the forced displacement response. The portal turns years of field experience into practical, interactive resources to help practitioners, policymakers, and partners improve responses to forced displacement worldwide. Designed for policymakers, practitioners, and key stakeholders in forced displacement contexts, this platform offers actionable tips and learnings across 10 key interventions.

This guide provides updated and detailed definitions and practical guidance on applying the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) evaluation criteria specifically adapted for humanitarian action.

📄✍️ ICVA Network has signed onto a collective NGO statement – released on behalf of 89 local, national, regional, international, women-, and refugee-led non-governmental organisations and networks, alliances, and fora upon today’s launch of the 2026 Global Humanitarian Overview (GHO).

The position piece highlights a range of critical issues in this challenging year, notably the dire consequences of strained aid, funding cuts, and declining political will amid escalating emergencies and unprecedented humanitarian needs worldwide – driven by conflict, climate disasters, displacement, and deepening inequality. Families are paying the price through worsening hunger, shrinking protection services, and rising gender-based violence.

We’re joining partners in reiterating the imperative for decisive action:
❗️Commit to accelerating true systemic reform that is more people-centred, efficient, agile, lean, plural, inclusive of and accountable to crisis-affected groups, including those often marginalised.
❗️Re-evaluate roles, embrace complementarity over competition, and reconsider which actors are best placed to respond.
❗️Prioritise localisation and equitable partnerships, quality and timely funding, risk-sharing, gender-responsive approaches, along with meaningful local leadership and participation in coordination and decision-making processes.
❗️Defend humanitarian norms and values, improve compliance and oversight, as well as operationalise and strengthen the humanitarian-development-peace nexus.
❗️End violations, safeguard civilians, respect human rights, and uphold all obligations under international law.

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The United Nations outlined how it intends to advance one of its most comprehensive system-wide reform efforts in decades, as Under-Secretary-General for Policy Guy Ryder presented the UN80 Initiative Action Plan. The plan brings the Secretary-General’s major UN80 reform proposals into a single, coherent structure to streamline efforts that will make the UN system deliver better.

At the Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa (FIFAfrica) in Windhoek, Namibia that happened on 24-26 September 2025, I had the chance to share my thoughts on some of the central narratives shaping AI governance in Africa. My reflections fundamentally stemmed from conducting tech policy research from an Afro-feminist lens across the African continent for years, which has left me apprehensive about how much AI and other technologies will indeed meet the continent’s needs for an inclusive society, as aided by the dominant policy-making narratives and approaches. In seeking to understand this, I realise that we are far from this realisation at the moment. To fully understand how this policy making is informed in Africa, it is important to acknowledge how narratives are formed. They require discourse around emerging and existing conversations which we use as guides, conscious or unconscious, in sense-making around any topics, events or issues. Narrative entails the underlying stories we use to rationalise what happens, or explain actions taken among other things. I highlighted that over the last few years, the narrative that AI will somehow lead to the continent’s development has gained consensus, and been promoted by actors primarily in the policy-making space. These include governments and regional bodies, multi and bilateral development partners, civil society, grassroots movements as well as the technical landscape which has adopted this language in their functions across Africa. While expressed differently across these actors, this narrative can be summed up as "AI for Development" (AI4D). In brief, this article centrally argues that because Africa’s engagement within the global AI ecosystem has so far been shaped by unequal power relations. This position merits a fundamental rethinking of what AI4D should mean in practice through policy and governance thinking which looks structurally at the continent’s intertwined crises and challenges in relation to AI’s real potential for overcoming them.Continue reading at GenderIT.org.