Development News Round-up: New Health Grant Programs, GHI Boosts Focus Countries, Education Support for Developing Countries, and More

Today, we reported:

• Donors Pledge More Funds for Global Education Projects

• Global Health Initiative Names More Focus Countries

• Gates Foundation Unveils New Health Grant Programs

• Brazil, WFP Partner Against Hunger

• US Congress Releases Some Aid for Palestinian Authority

• Despite European Funding, Education in Uganda Region Needs Improvement

• Cambodia Distributes 2.7M Insecticide-treated Nets in Bid to Beat Malaria

• US Senate Set to Vote on Foreign Aid Cuts

• No to Cholera Funding Cuts in Haiti

Other must-reads:

• Netherlands-funded FAO Project Boost Community Involvement in Mongolia’s Forestry Management

• AECID Stresses Microfinance is Gateway to Social Opportunities, Jobs, Poverty Alleviation

• Belgium Confirms $28.9M 2011 Contribution to Global Fund

• Lancet to Discuss Results of New Study in Time for World Pneumonia Day

• World Bank Renews Commitment to Suriname’s Country Development Efforts

• MicroPact’s Entellitrak Business Process Management Platform Food for Peace Program’s Pick to Help Assess Effectiveness of Global Food Aid Programs

• Slovakia Lags on Foreign Aid Commitment

• Pulled Out due to Arab Spring, Idle Japanese Aid Workers Paid $1.8M

• US Mission Invests $19M in Food Security Initiative in Uganda

• Poor Palestinians Receive Food Aid for Eid al-Adha

• Clinton to Urge US, Other Countries to Harness Latest Science to Stem HIV, AIDS Pandemic

• Abt Associates Awarded $15.4M Project to Improve Reproductive Health, Family Planning in Nigeria

• Vietnam, Luxembourg to Continue Indicative Cooperation Program for 2011-2015

• Declining TB Research, Development Funding

• Malteser to Provide 3-Month Food Supply to Cambodia Flood Victims

• Americares Sends Medica Aid, Nutritional Supplements to Central America

• In Uganda, EU to Explore Innovating Financing for Agricultural Sector via PPPs

• Uganda Receives $604M EU Funding for Infrastructure, Rural Development

• Latin America and Carribean Gain Access to $200M in Climate Change Financing

• IMF Approves 3-Year Extended Credit Facility Arrangement and Interim Debt Relief Assistance for Côte d’Ivoire

• Australia Shuns Critics on Rail Rehabilitation Project in Cambodia

• Gates Foundation Funds Third World Sanitation Proposal

• Concord: EU Policies Continue to Undermine Rights in Developing Countries

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