About
Davide Piga
I have spent close to twenty years working in international development and humanitarian organisations, across UN agencies and the wider sector, in field and headquarters roles, on cross-thematic programmes that rarely fit into a single box.
I have led [bracketed: types of programmes, e.g. evaluation and learning, knowledge management, programme design, monitoring and evaluation], in [bracketed: regions or contexts you want to name, or keep generic]. I have worked in offices where the wifi was reliable and in offices where it was not, with national colleagues, with international colleagues, and with people from outside the sector who were trying to find their way in. I have applied for jobs, run interview panels, written motivation letters, and helped friends and colleagues do the same.
I built this toolkit because the way most of us navigate careers in this sector is harder than it needs to be. Opportunities are spread across dozens of platforms, vocabulary is inconsistent across organisations, and the work of translating what I have done into the language of a specific application takes hours each time. The IACW 2026 programme contained methods that lower that cost, but the methods are scattered across 40 sessions and five days. The toolkit is the version I wished I had when I started.
What this site is
A personal reference of frameworks and tools, drawn from the IACW 2026 sessions and organised by a model I find useful for thinking about career navigation. Each framework is attributed to the person who shared it. Where I have a personal note on how I use a framework, I include it. Where I do not, the page is honest about that.
What this site is not
The official record of IACW 2026. The Centre for Learning and Multilingualism at the UN Office at Geneva, with the inter-agency network that hosted the week, owns that record. Recordings will be linked here as the organisers release them.
A product marketing site. There is a project I am building, separate from the toolkit. I mention it once on this page, and never on the dimension or framework pages where it does not belong.
A small ask
If you are navigating a career transition in this sector and would be open to a 25-minute conversation about it, I am running a small set of structured interviews. Synthesis is shared with all participants who want it. Your name does not appear in any synthesis without your explicit consent.
The form is here: 25-minute conversation invitation.
About Purposea
Purposea is a tool I am building for professionals navigating careers in international development and humanitarian work. It reads job descriptions across the sector daily and reasons about which ones fit a profile in genuine substance, not in keyword overlap. It addresses some of the dimensions the IACW 2026 programme covered the least: making the market more visible, helping with the choice of what to apply to, and supporting the articulation of a profile against a specific role. If interested, you can join the Purposea waitlist as an early tester or to be notified when the product opens publicly.
Contact
- Email: [email protected]
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/davidepiga
The seven dimensions of the toolkit are introduced on the Home page. The data behind them is in the Agenda Coverage Audit.