The recent 2025 Global Food Policy Report, launched on World Hunger Day, highlights unprecedented progress in reducing hunger and poverty over the last 50 years. However, the goal of zero hunger is at risk. The UN currently assesses Sustainable Development Goal 2 to be the only SDG that no member state has achieved nor is on track to achieve in the next five years.

Digital inclusion has become a fundamental prerequisite for accessing the modern financial system and ensuring the effective delivery of essential governance services. India and other low- and middle-income countries have seen digital expansion at an enormous pace. However, the gender divide is glaring—in terms of mobile money account ownership, it stands at 56 percentage points (GSMA 2024 report).

While the vast majority of the world’s population has access to electricity, 571.2 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa do not. At the same time, to meet interconnected climate goals, reliance on traditional energy sources needs to be reduced in favor of renewable and efficient energy.