Development News Round-up: Accountability, Transparency, Aid Strategy and More

Today, we reported:

• East African Crisis Responders Urged to Step Up Accountability, Local Participation in Relief Programs

• Efficiency and Transparency: Gates Foundation Refines Agricultural Strategy, Opens up to Grantees

• New German Development Strategy Mum on Aid Agency’s Role

• MSF Bahrain Office Raided; Staff Arrested

• Dana Mansuri is New USAID Mission Director to Nigeria

• USAID’s Global Health Bureau Has New Assistant Administrator

Other must-reads:

• John Kerry: US ‘Can’t Afford Not to’ Invest in Foreign Aid, Development

• In Official Visit, Peter Baxter Confirms Australia’s Commitment to Indonesian Development

• IDB Helps Boost Haitian SME’s Access to Credit

• In New Country Strategy, IDB OKs $1.8B for Uruguay

• UNDP to Manage $3.1M Gates Foundation Grant for HIV/AIDS Treatment, Prevention in Belize

• Spain Backs Rural Water, Sanitation Initiatives in Honduras

• SKorea Red Cross Offers Aid to Flood-hit NKorea

• Joint 3-Country Initiative Train Smallholder Ethiopian Farmers

• ICRC Distributes Out Seeds, Farming Tools in Darfur

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