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    Development news roundup: 27th UN General Assembly, CGI 2012, Social Good Summit 2012, and more

    By Jenny Lei Ravelo // 24 September 2012

    Today, we reported:

    • Designing for Impact: A list of upcoming sessions at CGI 2012 

    • Social Good Summit: From New York to Beijing 

    • Ban Ki-moon puts ‘Education First’ 

    Other must-reads:

    • World Bank agrees to fund Padma bridge

    • US provides $52.5M for Cambodian development projects

    • State Department’s Johnnie Carson talks US policies, plans for Africa

    • UN, donors urge Sudan and South Sudan to resolve border, other issues 

    • EBRD board to meet with IFIs, civil society during 5-day visit to Ukraine

    • USAID welcomes rule boosting transparency in mining industry at developing countries

    • USAID, DfID host Sept. 26 event on MDG progress

    • European Commission president urges European Parliament to simplify EU budget further

    • Canada, South Korea strengthen international development cooperation

    • IMF: Ties with emerging economies in Asia boosting development in Africa

    • WFP appeals for additional $84.6M to help feed 1.2 million in Congo

    • ‘Today we must ring the peace bell with extra force and conviction’

    • Ban Ki-moon, Aung San Suu Kyi discuss UN’s role in Myanmar’s democratization

    • UN urges alternatives to detention for asylum-seekers in new guidelines

    • UN voices concern over deteriorating humanitarian situation in northern Mali

    • Blue helmets train to go green

    • UN food agency highlights progress in Swaziland agricultural initiative

    • MCC completes 5-year compact with El Salvador

    • Innovation: New ideas to improve health in poor countries

    • EIB supports development of urban infrastructure in Moldova’s capital

    • Dutch aid allows IOM to airlift some stranded Ethiopian migrants from Yemen

    • AECID helps provide safe water and sanitation to more than 300,000 people in El Salvador

    • Finland help fund ADB-administered environment program in Mekong region

    • Helen Clark on the UNDP’s role in advancing ICT for development

    • Ban urges international community to bolster support for Palestinian Authority

    • IFAD approves $36.5M poverty reduction project for Peru

    • UNAMID continues to address water scarcity in Darfur

    • $300M ADB loan helps drive inclusive growth in Indonesia

    • 8 million children vaccinated against polio in Afghanistan

    • Senate shoots down proposal to reduce aid to Libya, Pakistan, Egypt

    • New report on nutrition reveals countries failure to address malnutrition

    • In the UK, more calls for closer scrutiny of DfID spending

    • New Egypt president eyes larger international role for country

    • Vietnam eyes closer ties with Germany

    • US asks Russia for ‘dignified and orderly’ end to aid operations

    • Rajiv Shah confident civil society groups’ work will continue even after USAID leaves Russia

    • 5 diseases that could spread with climate change

    • Zimbabwe needs help to settle IMF debt

    • Aung San Suu Kyi: Cooperation is key to genuine democracy

    • Deborah Derrick on how to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria

    • Senate poised to grill AusAID officials on broken Afghan link

    • US medical professionals volunteer to provide humanitarian assistance to Moldova

    • USAID launches $35M facility for Philippine SMEs

    • USAID administrator’s goal: Shift more aid to Haitian groups

    • West Bengal seeks World Bank’s help in creating skills development road map

    • UN, NGOs seek $38.5M to provide ‘immediate and life-saving’ assistance to Lesotho

    • Zambia’s education ministry gains $211M in renewed donor support, seeks additional $35.2M

    • Education prospects bleak for children in war-torn Mali

    • Nicolas Hulot on microfinance and sustainable development projects

    • WHO identifies new SARS-like virus

    • Flood victims in Niger receive ECOWAS support

    • Child trafficking slowly being addressed in India, where a child goes missing every 6 minutes

    • Oxfam report: Yemeni women worse off after revolution, as humanitarian crisis grows

    • Oleg Kozlovsky: USAID expulsion means the end of ‘reset’

    • ‘Foreign Aid is under attack like never before’

    • Alicia Ely Yamin on defining the next set of global development goals

    • The path to genuine development in Egypt is open – as long as IMF doesn’t get its way

    • ‘Dubai today is the biggest hub for global humanitarian relief’

    • Tapping culinary skills to advance diplomacy

    • Myanmar: ‘A model of effective collaboration on the path to democracy’

    • On accountability: Different perspectives, similar aspirations

    • 1,000-day nutrition: Women take the lead in India

    • Engagement, not withdrawal, is needed in Arab world

    • A global health mystery: What’s behind the US government’s position on AMFm?

    • What open access science research could mean for the developing world

    • ‘Where is the evidence for ‘what works’ in education interventions?’

    • Qatar firm to aid creation of trade hub in Nigeria

    • Public-private partnerships: The solution to Egypt’s economic crisis

    • eBay, Grameen Foundation to launch mobile marketplace in rural Indonesia

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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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