Development news roundup: ADB fortifies anti-corruption measures, donors commit to Gaza’s $450M desalination project, and more

Today, we reported:

• ADB to beef up anti-corruption measures

• Donors support $450M desalination project in Gaza

• Gates Foundation director offers 5 steps to ending sanitation problem

• Children’s rights: 10 points for businesses

• 100 days to #futurewewant

• What’s the truth behind Egypt’s NGO crackdown?

• Microcredit is overhyped, expert says

• Combating poverty? Let’s empower civil society

Other must reads:

• ADB report: Climate adaptation costs in Asia-Pacific to reach $40B through 2050

• Chronic food shortage most pressing issue in North Korea, UN expert says

• DfID wins technological breakthrough award for drought-tolerant maize

• USAID, Intel sign memorandum of understanding expanding partnership to socio-economic development

• CIDA to provide emergency humanitarian aid to Syria

• UN launches $9M measles vaccination campaign in Yemen

• AfDB to hold conference to discuss ways to strengthen water security in Africa

• AfDB meets with civil society groups to find ways to boost bank’s development effectiveness

• Dirk Niebel says German aid to Afghanistan tied to governance, anti-corruption reforms

• EU to provide $14.4M additional aid to Southeast Asia flood victims

• Addressing hunger, malnutrition in Asia-Pacific becoming more difficult – FAO

• Save the Children: New caregiving approach boosts health, well-being of African children affected by AIDS

• Council on Foreign Relations launches initiative to get global foreign policy institutes talking about governance, multilateral cooperation

• Ben Knapen says Yemen is in Netherlands’s list of aid recipient countries

• Aid workers discuss what it’s like providing humanitarian assistance in conflict zones

• Critics say forum delegates ‘watering down’ commitments

• India ends Bayer’s monopoly on kidney and liver cancer drug, prices of generic versions to drop 97 percent

• Russia to send 78 tons of humanitarian aid to Syria

• Red Cross conference to discuss strategic priorities for the Americas in next four years

• NGO for aging populations bags $1.5M Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize

• Somali state bans WFP, UNICEF, Relief International, SOFPA

• Livestock alliance proffers suggestions to maximize prospects for African farmers, sets e-discussion for experts

• Water activists decline debate invitation at World Water Forum, say invite citizen affected by privatization instead

• Experts to discuss integration of water, food and energy policies at sidelines of water forum

• Jesse Griffiths highlights two interesting views on World Bank presidency criteria

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