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    Development news round-up: The debate on the U.S. foreign aid budget request, new World Bank candidates, and more

    By Jenny Lei Ravelo // 29 February 2012

    Today, we reported:

    • Will Congress ‘starve’ the 2013 foreign aid budget?

    • World Bank: Passport please

    • Football matches for Sahel crisis awareness set

    • Japan boosts WFP resources in 21 countries

    • Sweden unveils 2012 aid budget for NGOs

    • Japan may resume development loans to Myanmar

    • Experts weigh in on deferred NGO trial in Egypt

    • Global health under Santorum

    Other must-reads:

    • WHO unveils new guidelines in detecting and preventing transmission of chikungunya virus

    • UN and partners to develop clean cooking stoves for Afghans

    • Announcement: Funding opportunity for NGOs with programs for Iraqi refugees, Near East IDPs

    • March 1: Launch of new USAID gender policy

    • The case for U.S. global health spending

    • ‘Cash works’ in the Sahel

    • Prince Foundation, RICS to publish practical guide to community planning

    • Africa Rice Center unveils research strategy to boost rice production in Africa

    • The problem with compartmentalizing humanitarian aid and development assistance

    • JICA, IDB to organize disaster risk management workshop

    • IFC to help expand people’s access to health care services in China

    • World Bank approves $100M for health, education, water, sanitation and transport in Uganda

    • World Bank to boost livestock production systems in Zambia with $50M

    • World Bank initiative in Latin America benefits mothers, children

    • Grant proposals for HIV programs wanted at the US Embassy in Zambia

    • Vietnam, UK sign memorandum of understanding on financial cooperation

    • ICRC appeals for $13.7M for Mali, Niger

    • Japan supports Ghana’s health sector with $6.8M

    • Syrian Arab Red Crescent says allegations on neutrality ‘untrue’

    • North Korea to benefit from $3.9M aid plan from Seoul

    • Indigenous people in the Philippines to receive support from ILO, Finland

    • Bill Gates’ ideology runs counter to UN, World Bank-funded scientific research

    Read more news about development aid online, and subscribe to The Development Newswire to receive top international development headlines from the world’s leading donors, news sources and opinion leaders — emailed to you FREE every business day.

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    • Jenny Lei Ravelo

      Jenny Lei Ravelo@JennyLeiRavelo

      Jenny Lei Ravelo is a Devex Senior Reporter based in Manila. She covers global health, with a particular focus on the World Health Organization, and other development and humanitarian aid trends in Asia Pacific. Prior to Devex, she wrote for ABS-CBN, one of the largest broadcasting networks in the Philippines, and was a copy editor for various international scientific journals. She received her journalism degree from the University of Santo Tomas.

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