Development news round-up: US reform agenda for UN, US revises NGO guidelines, food aid to North Korea, and more

Today, we reported:

• US to UN: Trim budget, boost accountability

• Revised NGO guidelines seek more programs on GBV

• South Korea allows food aid shipment to North Korea

• DfID injects $90.3M into Zambia’s development projects

• ‘Niebel System’ prompts criticism in Germany

• DfID apologizes ‘unreservedly’ to whistleblower for slipup

• World Bank helps boost livelihood in rural India

• DfID to kill NTDs with fresh funding

Other must-reads:

• Private sector investment could boost food security – EBRD

• Chang Ho-jin is South Korea’s new foreign affairs secretary

• Bjorn Eriksen: Rwanda is the best country in Africa for investments

• ActionAid report finds some progress on food security in Africa

• Italy funds Djibouti’s $2.8M maternal, infant health projects

• USAID, Batey Relief Alliance to distribute food to Haiti, Dominican Republic

• WFP, DfID, Irish Aid and USAID to distribute food to 10 Malawi districts

• AusAID gifts Fiji with advanced diagnostic machine for detecting communicable diseases

• IsDB to open country office in Bangladesh

• ADB pledges $75.4M for Afghan green energy project

• EIB allocates $35M for Seychelles water project

• Bulgaria to receive technical assistance for infrastructure projects from World Bank, EIB

• Study says high transport costs hinder Africa’s development

• Advocacy group Results urges US to call emergency donors’ meeting to save Global Fund

• International HIV/AIDS Alliance report urges donors to honor pledges to Global Fund, boost investment in HIV programs

• Andrew Mitchell: Aid today could prevent military intervention tomorrow

• Leaked copy of Cuban sentencing document says contractor Alan Gross ‘tried to keep his work undercover’

• Canada’s foreign policy review: Target contributions to sectors that underscore country’s strengths

• Liberia’s foreign-invested development projects dispossess rural villagers

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