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

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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