Hi all, I got to the interview stage for an IEA position in February 2026, and they mentioned I would hear back within 4-6 weeks for a decision. Now 10+ weeks out, my OECD application still shows as active and in the "interview" stage but I have not heard anything back from HR or any automated responses.
Any insight on whether there is a hiring freeze or delays in decisions due to global events or should I move on?
Thank you in advance!
The sudden shutdown of USAID is the most visible recent example of knowledge vanishing overnight. But that kind of loss is the exception. The rule is quieter and harder to track.
A webpage goes offline. A subscription lapses. A hard drive gets boxed up and forgotten in a cabinet nobody has the key to anymore. This is institutional neglect, and it's how most humanitarian data silently disappears.
To understand the risks our data faces, we need to map what we collect and use as a sector. Check out this public registry of humanitarian data, records and archives: hae-registry.baserow.site/registry
Poverty measurement is more complicated than a single headline number. A new World Bank note looks at gaps between household surveys and national accounts, a key issue for understanding who is being missed.
Recently, the PIP Innovation Hub was added to the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) as a way to showcase experimental work on poverty and inequality measurement (see previous blog for details). One of the Deep Dive approaches presented in the Innovation Hub as an alternative to the World Bank’s official estimates in PIP addresses two well-known issues prevalent in household surveys. First, there is a disparity between the level of living standards implied by national accounts and survey data. Second, household surveys struggle to capture responses from the richest households.