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    Development news roundup: Austrian aid budget, humanitarian workplan for Sudan, and more

    By Jenny Lei Ravelo // 11 March 2013

    Today, we reported:

    • A bigger budget for Austrian development agency

    • Event preview: This week in development cooperation

    • In Sudan: ‘No progress in sight’ on humanitarian access to conflict-torn states

    • In Myanmar, US seeks credible 2015 elections

    Other must-reads:

    • UN urges ‘Friends of Yemen’ to continue support for transition and humanitarian crisis

    • Ban welcomes safe release of UN peacekeepers detained in Golan

    • New framework to ensure women involved in disaster risk management - UNISDR

    • Japan’s $140.7M contribution to help WFP meet hunger needs in 16 countries

    • World Bank’s Rachel Kyte underlines importance of investing in resilience on 2-year anniversary of Japan tsunami

    • Japan contributes $53.3M to support consolidation of peace in South Sudan

    • JICA provides $10.5M for Philippine quake monitoring

    • Bangladesh signs $1.04B loan deal with JICA

    • Ban welcomes new border agreements between Sudan and South Sudan

    • Irish aid minister Joe Costello on a 2-week tour across Africa

    • Canada supports employment and skills training for students in Ukraine

    • EU eyes WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement 

    • Innovation improves gender programs, spurs economic development in Africa, World Bank

    • Middle East food security tracking tool launched

    • On visit to India, special envoy to President Assad criticizes British aid to Syrian rebels

    • Deepening Syrian crisis forces refugees from remote locations into Jordan

    • Egypt’s embassy in Beirut participates in delivering humanitarian aid to displaced Syrians

    • IDB approves largest financial operation for Uruguay: $550M

    • $12.5M ADB grants to create jobs, improve tourism in the Philippines

    • IDB to lend Argentina $500M

    • IDB begins rebuilding projects funding in Gaza

    • AfDB chief salutes African women

    • $18M IDB loan to help prevent and combat corruption in Brazil’s public administration

    • Mars, Mondelez, Nestle are leaving women farmers behind - Oxfam

    • ACTED aids Afghan farmers to protect their livestock and their income

    • International Women’s Day: Breaking the silence on gender-based violence

    • Online innovation primes Pacific private sector growth

    • CGD’s Beth Schwanke: Sequester, CRs, and development—oh my!

     Read more development aid news online, and subscribe to The Development Newswire to receive top international development headlines from the world’s leading donors, news sources and opinion leaders — emailed to you FREE every business day.

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    • Jenny Lei Ravelo

      Jenny Lei Ravelo@JennyLeiRavelo

      Jenny Lei Ravelo is a Devex Senior Reporter based in Manila. She covers global health, with a particular focus on the World Health Organization, and other development and humanitarian aid trends in Asia Pacific. Prior to Devex, she wrote for ABS-CBN, one of the largest broadcasting networks in the Philippines, and was a copy editor for various international scientific journals. She received her journalism degree from the University of Santo Tomas.

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