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

    By Devex Editor // 15 February 2012

    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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