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

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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