Today, we reported:
Australia to divert some aid funds to support asylum seekers
Jordan gets joint operations hub for Syrian refugee programs
Other must reads:
UNHCR urges more improvement in asylum processing post used by Australia
EBRD provides $131.7M for construction of power plant in Jordan
IDB approves $30M loan for key Jamaican social protection programs
IMF disburses $1.7B to Ireland after eight review of extended fund facility
UN official: Situation in Congo’s Kivu provinces remains ‘tense and fragile’
New report on global disease burden adds urgency to clean cookstove initiative
Minister Joe Costello, Irish NGOs discuss Ireland’s upcoming presidency of the Council of the EU
UN secretary-general returns to renovated, eco-friendly headquarter offices after five years
UNDP assistant administrator: ‘Global governance advancing or receding?’
US Senate appropriations committee head Daniel Inouye dies at 88
Ford Foundation commits $3M to World Bank’s Global Partnership for Social Accountability
Bombing in southern Philippines may have targeted aid workers
Aid cuts expected to dominate Rwanda’s annual public dialogue
Mali: Northern communities struggle to sustain livelihoods amid conflict, extreme weather conditions
World Vision aids nodding families in Uganda’s Gulu district
World Bank, AfDB to spend $747.1M on Nigeria’s agriculture - minister
ICRC’s Sameer Putros: We have to expand water, sanitary facilities in Syria
India’s take on the climate talks in Doha: ‘Many of our issues have not been addressed’
In forum, health care practitioners discuss measures to enhance security in armed conflicts
AfDB to give $23.2M grant to boost East African communities’ payment systems
Howard Buffett Foundation pledges $500,000 for DRC-M23 rebels’ talks
From Austria to Australia - young volunteers set the agenda for the new year
Solar sisters’ spread light in Africa / ‘Solar sisters’ spreading light in Africa
AusAID backs new women empowerment program in Papua New Guinea
More threats to Malawi food security: Rising maize prices and poor harvests
The Analyst: Why we are ‘cautiously’ anticipating news of new Japanese food aid for Liberia
David Weiss: Don’t let foreign aid fall off the fiscal cliff
What the world can learn from Brazil’s fight against poverty
Pixie Lott shares tales of women working their way out of poverty in Zambia’s slums
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