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    Development news roundup: Aid access in Mali, flooding in Indonesia, and more

    By Devex Editor // 21 January 2013

    Today, we reported:

    • In central Mali, MSF staff bunkers down, clamoring for access

    • Jakarta floods: Two aid groups, different emergency response

    • Four more years: What the aid community expects from Obama now

    • ‘The world’s greatest human rights disaster’

    • ICRC’s guide for health workers

    • Swiss aid to Egypt doubles

    • Event preview: This week in development

    Other must-reads:

    • US-Nigeria deal to leverage millions for agriculture

    • AfDB calls for green growth concept to boost development in Africa

    • Ex-Ugandan junior health minister gets jail time over GAVI funds misuse

    • New report shows improving food security in East Africa

    • UAE medical aid group dispatches humanitarian missions to Sudan, Egypt, Bosnia

    • Swiss aid agency funds construction of maternity and newborn hospital in Tanzania

    • German aid ministry dismisses concerns over partnership with Stiftung Partnerschaft mit Afrika

    • Australia, UK reaffirm support to Myanmar

    • Canada gives winter aid to northern India

    • 2 JICA-funded climate change projects in Thailand to begin in March

    • WFP ready to send winter food aid to 1M Afghans

    • More US aid for Philippine storm victims

    • IMF sets conditions for new loan program with Pakistan

    • Asian ICT projects get fresh international funding

    • Japan offers technical aid to Yangon transport project

    • World Bank official discusses aid plans for Pacific countries

    • What happened at the First Myanmar Development Cooperation Forum?

    • GIZ, German association partner to promote sustainable water and waste management in developing world

    • Oxfam wants a new global deal to curb inequality

    • Oxfam clarifies issues about joint hunger initiative with Board of Deputies of British Jews

    • Germany, FAO want creation of principles for responsible investments in global agriculture

    • In Nicaragua visit, WFP official discusses new country program

    • IDB ‘optimistic’ about continuing partnership with Suriname

    • IDB, Jamaica discuss how to accelerate country’s socio-economic agenda

    • EU contributes to UNRWA’s job creation program for Gaza

    • Israel blocks aid convoy to Palestinians

    • Irish relief group plans to scale up Syria operation

    • EIB, IRENA launch joint study to promote renewable energy in Mediterranean

    • IFC supports reforms to enhance business growth in Nepal

    • GEF gets new role: Raising and disbursing grants for Mercury Convention projects

    • World Bank official: Congo needs to diversify economy to combat poverty

    • AfDB’s ‘people strategy’

    • WTO chief notes significant progress in mobilizing aid-for-trade funds

    • World Bank: Sustainable transportation to become major focus of lending in coming years

    • Joel Brinkley: Food security still a major issue in Southeast Asia

    • Under-5 child survival under microscope at Ethiopia summit

    • International development: Big questions, small answers

    • Shiney Varghese: Water grabbing to follow food speculation?

    • Leslie Mancuso: Promoting public-private partnerships to improve women’s health

    • Kate Campbell: Why foreign aid should not end up a casualty of US congressional budget battles

    • Stephen Howes and Jonathan Pryke on Australian Senate evaluation of country’s aid to Afghanistan

    • Gianni Pittella: Sudan needs EU assistance

    • Mark Dybul: The big push to defeat AIDS, TB and malaria

    • UN Haiti mission chief reaffirms international community’s support to inclusive elections

    • Ban Ki-moon on disarmament: It’s still UN member states’ decision whether to spend on arms or on development

    • UN mission heads to Syria

    • UNHCR plans scale-down of PNG work

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