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    Development news roundup: Australia to double aid to Myanmar by 2015, new World Bank environment strategy, and more

    By Devex Editor // 08 June 2012

    Today, we reported:

    • Australia to double aid to Myanmar by 2015

    • New World Bank environment strategy draws mixed reactions

    • Will Assad honor the $180M UN aid plan?

    • Allow aid access or face ‘severe sanctions’ – NGOs

    • Jo Crawford: Australia needs walk the talk on gender equality

    • ActionAid Europe head is new Concord president

    Other must reads:

    • Ending hunger requires both immediate response and long-term resilience – Oxfam

    • UK to ‘stand by’ its commitment to Zambia

    • BADEA signs loan agreements with Lesotho, Tanzania, Cape Verde and Senegal

    • Mekorot, Israel’s national water company, eyes bringing expertise to developing countries

    • Japan pledges to improve water systems, boost exports in Vietnam

    • A challenge: Maintaining malaria gains along Thai-Cambodia border

    • IDB approves $70M loan for innovative education facilities for 47 Panama communities

    • Amina Mohammed is Ban Ki-moon’s new adviser for post-2015 development planning

    • Navi Pillay presses Pakistan on advancement of human rights

    • UN experts to Malaysia: Protect CSOs pushing for electoral reforms

    • Development banks honored in 1st US Treasury ‘Development Impact Honors’ awards

    • Columnist asks: Is Change.org a social change platform or a lead generation site?

    • Daniel Yohannes in Jordan: ‘When water flows, prosperity follows’

    • Lessons from Indian state’s women health care programs

    • ‘PPP is not a date, it’s a marriage’

    • Ukraine eyes EBRD loan for gas pipeline modernization

    • Philippines seeks technical assistance in renewable energy assessments

    • On Twitter June 18: End fossil fuel subsidies campaign

    • Expert debate on EU development objectives, funding June 25

    • Proposed: 2015, European Year for Development Cooperation

    • Pakistan requests World Bank to help in Bhasha Dam construction

    • Experts push for practical indicators for post-2015 development goals

    • Roberta Jacobson: How US supports Cuba’s civil society

    • Jordanian children, mothers learn basic computer skills from Peace Corps volunteers

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