Development news round-up: Development community reacts to US 2012 foreign aid budget, EU's 2012 aid package for Palestine, and more

Today, we reported:

• Members of US development community react to 2012 foreign assistance budget

• EU announces first Palestinian aid package for 2012

• UNICEF launch appeal for Sahel food crisis response

• Does the Philippines have adequate resources to aid Washi victims?

• In Cambodia, civil society groups reject latest draft of NGO regulation law

• UN urged to review, revise integration efforts in conflict-torn countries

Other must-reads:

• Ban Ki-moon reaffirms commitment to peace, security in North Korea

• Valerie Amos: Turkey’s role in humanitarian affairs vital in international community

• South-South cooperation a critical development tool to addressing food security

• Rajiv Shah in New Delhi for 2-day discussion on India-US development cooperation

• ADF to finance $107.4M Trans-Gambia Bridge and Cross Border Improvement Project

• World Bank approves $30M poverty reduction support grant for Benin

• European Commission uses UNOSAT analyses, maps in emergency response center

• WFP sets up grain warehouse in northern Uganda

• Amnesty International urges UN to help more than 100,000 refugees return to Abyei

• Under pact with GAVI, Pfizer and Glaxo to supply pneumonia vaccine to children in developing countries

• Philippines, South Korea jumpstart multiyear country partnership strategy talks

• IOM distributes shelter repair kits, other forms of humanitarian assistance to flood-hit El Salvador

• USAID, other multilateral donors pledge $82M for Nigeria’s anti-malaria efforts

• Iran sends 540-ton food aid shipment to Somalia

• Private-public partnerships bring technology, sanitation improvements to Jamaica

• Unni Karunakara: Global Fund’s canceled grant-making round may reverse progress in countries hardest hit by epidemics

• Food aid to North Korea should proceed sans ‘policy quid pro quos’

• Conflict in Myanmar adding to aid groups’ dilemma

• Humanitarian crisis in Somalia likely to worsen in 2012

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