Development news roundup: David Cameron to chair post-2015 development goals committee, US to release $58M to Palestine Authority, and more

Today, we reported:

• Next set of MDGs? Ask David Cameron

• US ‘moves’ to release no more than $58M aid to Palestinian Authority

• Couple allegedly used USAID money to fix home, buy cars

• Bad move: Amnesty vote imperils $26M aid to Suriname

• Cambodian health program returns value for the buck

• Africa needs climate change adaptation assistance

• Does child sponsorship work?

• Anti-corruption 101: Cross debarment

Other must reads:

• WHO: Early diagnosis key to easing the burden of dementia

• UK announces $95M for deforestation fight

• UNICEF report: Without sustained assistance, ‘tentative gains’ in Horn of Africa could be reversed

• Collaboration between business sector, government essential to sustainable development

• Australia to provide $1M to help Pacific island nations attend Rio+20

• Ben Knapen: Business sector, consumers and CSOs need to work together for sustainable development

• AusAid adviser injured in Afghan suicide attack flies home to receive intensive care

• International community urged to support local cross-line NGOs in Myanmar’s Kachin region

• Kenya’s Jane Karuku is new AGRA president

• Massive Indonesia quake kills five people

• Report: Pension funds could fund ‘urgently needed massive investments in infrastructure’

• Syria pledges to respect cease-fire

• What do football, cricket and public-private partnerships have in common?

• Why did Obama choose Jim Yong Kim for the World Bank? He has a plan

• European Commission announces $11M for northern Mali

• European Commission allocates additional $215M for looming food crisis in Sahel

• New EIB $66M initiative to boost job creation, MSEs across East Africa

• $92M EIB initiative to benefit SMEs in Kenya

• Ban to General Assembly: ‘curb food price volatility’

• Survey says Afghanistan has made ‘significant progress’ on maternal deaths

• Development part of sixth Summit of the Americas agenda

• HIV rate at a high in Swaziland

• Kofi Annan optimistic Syria will uphold peace plan

• Insecurity threatens aid delivery in DRC

• Egypt eyes 10-year development strategy

• Myanmar grants ‘unrestricted’ aid access to North Kachin state

• Water, electricity, food and medicine ‘running out’ in Mali

• Two strong earthquakes shake western Mexico

• NGOs needed in Mali

• $60M USAID project aims to build 65 health centers in Ethiopia

• Philippines, Australia mark 66th anniversary of diplomatic ties

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