Development news round-up: Bill Gates pledges $200M, humanitarian promises for Somalia, aid for Syria, and more

Today, we reported:

• Bill Gates proposes accountability scorecards for agriculture development

• London conference on Somalia tackles humanitarian aid

• ‘Friends of Syria’ banks on pressure to get aid to Syria

• Next World Bank chief: Muhammad Yunus?

• Survey: Public supports Spain’s aid programs

• New World Bank hub focuses on fragile state issues

• Bankers weigh in on PPPs for African energy projects

• In Sudan: Bombs, massacre, rape, hunger

Other must reads:

• WFP partners with The Hunger Games producers to raise awareness on global hunger

• WHO call for proposals: Development programs for health policymakers

• IFAD renews commitment to boost income of small-holder farmers

• Dutch, Swedish lotteries donate $5M to UNHCR

• Ethiopia to learn successful health care practices in India, US

• Bangladeshis get free health care advice on their mobile phones

• Red Cross launches $3M appeal to assist cyclone-hit families in Mozambique

• Fire leaves thousands of Myanmar refugees in Thailand homeless

• Ireland to deliver remaining $2M aid pledge to Haiti ‘in coming months’

• UN suspension of nonlifesaving activities in Dadaab means unregistered don’t get food aid

• American woman linked to NGO case barred from leaving Egypt

• Impoverished flood survivors in Cambodia ‘drowning in debt’

• Obama turns to agriculture, food industry experts for Feed the Future

• World Bank proposes changes to debt sustainability framework

• Climate, environment funders should pour more money to grassroots organizations

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