Development News Round-up: Aid Effectiveness, Foreign Assistance Reform and More

Today, we reported:

• Human Rights Group Claims Donors Indirectly Funding Forced Labor in Vietnam

• European Commission Outlines Priorities for Upcoming Aid Effectiveness Summit

• US Lawmaker Seeks Bipartisan Effort to Reform US Foreign Aid

• Pakistan Seeks UN Help in Issuing International Appeal for Flood Victims

• Ahead of Busan Meeting, African Leaders Discuss Aid Reforms

• Stephen Haykin named USAID Mission Director for Georgia

• Frans Lammersen: Aid-for-trade Achieving Results, But Needs More Study

Other must-reads:

• UN: Literacy Alleviates Poverty, Reinforces Stability

• Australia, New Zealand to Invest $270M in Literacy, Language Education in the Pacific

• Ban Ki-moon Urges Countries to Work Toward Sustainable Development

• Norway Increases Horn of Africa Support to $115M

• Australian Aid not Stemming Papua New Guinea’s Health Catastrophe

• William Hague: UK Will not Outsource Foreign Policy to EAS

• Kenyans for Kenya Fund Reaches $10M Target

• IsDB Loans $150M for Sudan’s Hydro Dams

• Agri-Business Forum Seeks to Boost Africa’s Food Production

• Reproductive Health Commodity Security Essential to Development

• US Trade Pact Threatens Develooping Countries’ Access to Generic Medicines

• Drought-Hit Cameroon Battles Food Crisis

• UN Aid Chief Valerie Amos to Visit North Korea

• NDC Alliance: UN Draft Statement Sets No New Targets

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