Development news roundup: Egypt brokers Gaza, Israel cease-fire, EU budget showdown begins, and more

Today, we reported:

• Egypt-brokered deal could help boost aid access to Gaza

• In Brussels, EU budget showdown begins

• Global Fund resumes Mali HIV grant

• UN doubles funding appeal for Rakhine

• Asia-Pacific leaders forge new alliance against malaria

• From the polls: French largely supports aid spending

• 3 development actors unite against hunger in Africa

Other must reads:

• USAID announces support for AfDB-managed fund for migration and development

• $200M ADB loan poised to help boost crop output in China

• EBRD to help Romania access EU funds, advance structural reforms

• Government donates $3M for WFP operations in Senegal WFP warns of funding shortage in Madagascar ahead of cyclone season

• Peru to boost business productivity and competitiveness with $30M IDB loan

• IDB approves $200M loan to help Brazilian state consolidate fiscal stability 

• Dominican Republic secures $25M IDB loan for water supply initiative

• Germany to help Moldova establish food safety agency 

• UN meeting highlights need for greater access to HIV-sensitive social protection in Indonesia

• In Congo, UN officials voice concern over conflict’s impact on aid delivery, children

• At global conference, UN official highlights role of migration in promoting development

• Youth advocates support e-forum on holding governments to account

• DfID sends aid to hurricane victims in Haiti and Cuba

• IDB to hold 2013 annual meeting on March 13-17 in Panama

• UNHCR urges all sides in eastern Congo conflict to protect the displaced

• UN peacekeeping chief: ‘Blue helmets’ to stay in Goma, political solution needed for eastern Congo

• UNISDR chief visits Sandy-affected communities

• World Bank President Jim Yong Kim to visit China 

• Social media a link to rising HIV cases among MSM in the Philippines

• World Vision urges Ghana government to fulfill promise on health

• Dutch aid doesn’t go to rebels’ - minister

• UN agencies, NGOs step up operations for Syrian refugees as winter approaches

• Study finds aid from emerging economies less transparent than Western donors’ assistance

• Bulgaria sends humanitarian aid to Syrian refugees

• By 2022, 13 countries to allocate 10 percent of public expenditure to programs on food security

• Tony Blair urges donor to work behind recipient countries’ priorities

• Japan sends relief materials to flood-hit Nigerian areas

• The implications on human rights of the fighting in DRC

• Transparency among focus of G8 summit in Northern Ireland in 2013

• In Bahrain: 23 health professionals sentenced to 3 months in prison

• Seeds in women’s hands

• The catalyst for long-term success in HIV and AIDS

• A new milestone in child protection

• A snapshot of conversations on post-2015 development agenda

• Inconvenient truths about corruption and development

• Getting the facts straight: Pergau Dam and British foreign aid

• The problem of fake and useless drugs

• Flood crisis: Implications for agricultural and food security in Nigeria

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