Development news round-up: Development community reacts to Obama’s budget request, USAID tests counterterrorism measure, and more

Today, we reported:

• Obama’s 2013 foreign aid budget request: The good, the bad and the ugly

• USAID to test counterterrorism measure

• Save the Children study: Every hour, 300 children die from malnutrition

• US State Department calls on NGOs to submit proposals

• ‘Dilapidated’ Afghan irrigation system receives needed boost from FAO

• USAID advises Pakistan: ‘Privatize power companies’

Other must reads:

• UN Security Council urges Sudanese government to allow aid teams immediate access

• Arab League unveils proposal to address humanitarian situation in Blue Nile, South Kordofan

• Valerie Amos, Helen Clark to conduct two-day mission in Niger

• Red Cross calls on donors to give more funding for Sahel food crisis

• Emergency supplies to assist 100,000 cyclone victims in Madagascar ready – UNICEF

• UN OCHA says humanitarian situation in southern Yemen worsening

• UK to host policy seminar to present evidence on HIV, AIDS impact on communities

• Andris Piebalgs: ‘I am ready to increase aid to foster Myanmar’s development’

• World Bank approves $18M financing for Tajikistan’s Energy Loss Reduction Project

• Armenia’s social investment fund receives $11M credit from World Bank

• Aid agency pull out, a problem of IDPs in Galkayo

• JICA boosts healthcare in Somalia with $33M

• CIDA under fire for turning down NGO proposals

• Bangladesh mulls funding for Padma Bridge

• Forest conservation project to receive $6M AfDB funding

• Study analyzes safe water, sanitation in 193 countries

• Ambulance drivers, paramedics in Egypt lack protection

• France to join ‘friends of democratic Syria’

• Maternal health, a serious problem in eastern Myanmar - report

• Tool helps warn against possible cholera outbreaks

• MDGs: A challenge in East Timor

• Where do NGOs fit in a world where aid recipients are also donors?

• Even if Myanmar meets all conditions, lifting of US sanctions may take time

• Stephen Howes: Make AusAID data public

• Improvements in agriculture sector lift 1M Rwandans out of poverty

• World Bank urges public to share views for supporting social accountability

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