Development news round-up: Relief efforts in South Sudan and Philippines, New funding from World Bank, and more

Today, we reported:

• Aid agencies boost relief efforts in Mindanao

• UN airlifts relief supplies to South Sudan

• Number of cholera cases in Haiti declining steadily – aid groups

• Aid groups to US: Decide on food aid to North Korea now

• World Bank names 2012-2016 aid priorities in Vietnam

• US to focus on promoting innovation in India

• World Bank approves $56.8 million fund for child and maternal health in Kenya

• In Tanzania, World Bank helps boost access to health services

• What’s ‘new’ in new deal for fragile states endorsed in Busan?

• Human Rights Watch to Myanmar army, KIA: Respect international humanitarian law

Other must-reads:

• Poor being ‘left behind’ in MDG goal of improving access to safe drinking water, UN report says

• Mekong leaders agree on new 10-year plan to boost growth, development

• World Bank approves $30M for Mali Strengthening Reproductive Health Project

• Japan welcomes request for Meghna Bridge repair

• UN looks into social media for poverty alleviation

• UN releases book on Amazon plants

• Solidarity key to solutions to global challenges, Ban says

• $10M IFAD fund to boost Lesotho farmers’ agricultural production

• UN human rights expert voices concern for Attawapiskat aboriginal community in Canada

• Canada to continue aid to millions affected by drought in East Africa

• World Bank approves $16.9M grant to Togo for disaster and land management project

• Russian donation to WFP Tajikistan amounts to $6M

• Global Fund to grant Ukraine some $300M in HIV, AIDS fight

• $1.5M Clinton Bush Haiti Fund to help build hotel, education and technology sectors

• ECNEC approves nine development projects in Bangladesh

• IOM calls for more ‘migrant-inclusive health policies’

• Can lifesaving RTUFs be produced in Africa?

• A debate over food security at WTO ministerial meeting

• Report explores how donors can improve aid to fragile states

• South Sudan seeks $763M in humanitarian aid

• Kenyan orphanages feel toll of discontinued US funding

• IOM says funds for Ethiopian migrants in Yemen slowly running out

• MSF counts down ten most important access to medicine stories in 2011

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