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

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!

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