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    Development news roundup: Changes at the Global Fund, new EU budget proposal and more

    By Devex Editor // 16 November 2012

    Today, we reported:

    • New Global Fund chief: ‘No health issue stands alone’

    • The Global Fund’s decision: A modified malaria program

    • Van Rompuy budget proposal includes aid budget cuts

    • Budget cuts to hurt Germany’s aid goal

    • Trip to Myanmar marks US ‘pivot’ to Asia

    • A push for primary education in South Sudan

    • Liberia not yet officially eligible for MCC compact

    Other must reads:

    • ADB president: Future growth in Asia must be balanced, inclusive and green

    • Kristalina Georgieva: We need to ‘raise our game’ on disaster preparedness, response

    • UNRWA teacher among killed in Gaza attacks 

    • JICA sends emergency aid to Guatemala

    • UNDP associate administrator launches new gender equality project in Afghanistan

    • WHO on track to achieve key tuberculosis target in Western Pacific

    • IDB helps Nicaragua improve its transport system with Nicaragua to improve its transport system with IDB loan $39.2M loan

    • Dominican Republic to improve agricultural productivity of small farmers with $22M IDB loan

    • Mexico gets $15M in climate change mitigation financing from IDB

    • IFC provides $176M to help improve Colombian capital’s transport system

    • OIG: 10 ways to improve USAID’s net distribution activities in Tanzania

    • UN deputy humanitarian chief Catherine Bragg to visit Pakistan

    • WFP scales up food distributions as humanitarian needs in Syria rise 

    • Ahead of Sierra Leone elections, UN Peacebuilding Commission pledges continued support

    • ADB lens $25M for construction of 3 food plants in Bangladesh

    • Chilean president: We want to eliminate poverty by 2020

    • UNHCR official talks refugees and access to migration programs

    • What’s it like to be a UN headquarters tour guide?

    • UNFPA: 3 critical maternal health medicines that could save women’s lives 

    • UN says $1.6M million needed to address food needs in quake-stricken Guatemala 

    • UN Democracy Fund grant to accept new grant proposals between Nov. 15 to Dec. 31 

    • $300M ADB loan to support Indonesian program for better rural-urban transport links

    • MSF pulls out majority of staff members from North Kivu

    • From a former secretary of state to a potential one: Madeleine Albright praises Susan Rice

    • China’s aid to Cambodia helps cement ties 

    • Possible cabinet posts for Rajiv Shah: Education, agriculture, health and human services 

    • Russia warns of tough response to US human rights bill

    • MSF urges Nigeria president to act on deadly lead poisoning

    • France seeks review of EU ban on arming Syria rebels

    • AfDB-funded rural supply water project kicks off in Kerewan, Gambia

    • MSF says rampant sexual violence in Papua New Guinea a ‘humanitarian crisis’

    • Gates Foundation funds research to improve health in developing countries

    • Aid reaches refugees South Sudan’s Maban country 

    • UN: 750,000 Congolese in need of emergency food aid

    • Uganda shuts down Bunagana trade post along DRC border

    • Uganda hit by Ebola outbreak

    • Red Cross raises alarm as thousands of Burundian refugees face repatriation

    • Ukrainian officials to USAID: The country needs your assistance 

    • ADB backs energy efficiency scheme in Bangladesh

    • New MSF study confirms crisis of undiagnosed tuberculosis among children

    • On World Toilet Day, think outside the stall

    • Program-for-Results: An update on the World Bank’s new finance tool 

    • Mexico escapes damage from 6-magnitude quake

    • Green Climate Fund makes progress towards operationalization

    • Japan eyes financing solar and water power plants in Pakistan

    • From Senegal to Sudan, does building resilience work?

    • Niharika Mandhana: End of UK aid to India signals shift in foreign aid architecture 

    • A partnership to address pediatric malnutrition in Haiti

    • Democracy is not necessarily good for the poor, research finds

    • Bipasha Majumder: Should NGOs look in the mirror in India’s middle class debate?

    • As Obama prepares new cabinet, USGLC asks ‘So who’s calling the shots?’

    • The Economist: India can’t tackle domestic poverty by itself 

    • Experts look at governance of global partnerships

    • Are we ready for the big development disruptors?

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