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    Development news roundup: Australia to divert some aid funds, countries eligible for a 2013 MCC compact, and more

    By Devex Editor // 18 December 2012

    Today, we reported:

    • Australia to divert some aid funds to support asylum seekers

    • Which countries will be eligible for a 2013 MCC compact?

    • EU Food Facility: Effective but could be better

    • Jordan gets joint operations hub for Syrian refugee programs

    • Soon: 1st-ever US plan to help children in adversity

    • The benefits of impact reporting for NGOs

    Other must reads:

    • A look at AfDB investments in Kenya’s young innovators

    • UNHCR urges more improvement in asylum processing post used by Australia 

    • $24.7M EBRD loan to help boost Croatia’s tourism sector

    • EBRD provides $131.7M for construction of power plant in Jordan 

    • ADB, ILO reaffirm support for core labor standards

    • 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 

    • How MCC compact is helping Paraguay fight corruption 

    • ADB & Australia help Vanuatu improve urban development

    • UK supports Syrian refugees in Jordan

    • Minister Joe Costello, Irish NGOs discuss Ireland’s upcoming presidency of the Council of the EU 

    • Celebrating 50 years of OECD DAC peer reviews 

    • New Zealand sends more aid to cyclone-hit Samoa

    • 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 

    • UN seeks $144M in additional humanitarian aid for Haiti 

    • 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 

    • $4M SIDA grant for Yemen’s political transition

    • AfDB to give $23.2M grant to boost East African communities’ payment systems 

    • Howard Buffett Foundation pledges $500,000 for DRC-M23 rebels’ talks 

    • The future of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative

    • Martin Kirk: Lessons from ‘Give Us the Money’ 

    • 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 

    • In Uganda, aid cuts threaten vital public services

    • 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 

    • What’s your meme? Changing the climate change conversation 

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