Development News Round-up: Aid Stuck in Customs, Frozen, Cut and More

Today, we reported:

• Stuck in Customs: Aid to East African Drought Victims

• Aid Community Reacts to Latest House Votes on US Foreign Assistance

• In Sudan, DfID to Need More Infrastructure, Conflict Experts

• Alassane Ouattara Eyes ‘Massive’ US Aid for Ivory Coast

• Aid Freeze Threatens Malawi’s Recent Development

• BRAC, JICA Forge Development Partnership

• Bhutan Policy Change Expected to Allow Quicker Entry of Humanitarian Aid

• New US Initiative: Partial Credit Guarantees to Boost HIV Fight in Ethiopia

Other must-reads:

• Jordan MOU with France Includes $900 for Finance Development Projects

• Nigeria Meets With World Bank, AfDB, DfID to Curb Youth Unemployment

• Microsoft Expands Software Donation Program for NGOs Worldwide

• IFC Pledges up to $30M for Costa Rica’s Coopenae for Housing, SME

• IFC Trains Microfinance Institutions in Pacific to Manage Risks, Better Serve Entrepreneurs

• Save the Children’s New Humanitarian HR Chief: Christine Williamson

• Ryan Partnership Chicago to Craft World Vision’s US Marketing Strategy

• JICA-Singapore Joint Seminar Addresses Afghan Corruption, Culture of Aid Dependency

• FAO Intervention Helped More Than 7M People Recover from the 2010 Pakistan Floods

• The Road to Busan: ‘Development Cooperation’ the New ‘Aid’?

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