Development news roundup: EU budget talks, new US-Myanmar partnership, and more

Today, we reported:

• Foreign aid, a casualty in EU budget showdown?

• US rewards Myanmar’s ‘flickers of reform’

• DfID’s education programs in Nigeria need improvement

• Asia: Canada’s next aid focus?

Other must-reads:

• Group spotlights on aid to Africa through spoof music video

• 1st solar project in North Africa gains more donor support

• Infrastructure Consortium for Africa Members Meeting 2012 to take place Nov. 28-29 in Mozambique

• Is Ethiopia ready for foreign investment?

• In Burundi and Sierra Leone: Access to emergency care significantly reduces maternal mortality

• Tunisia: Police officers trained for peacekeeping in Ivory Coast

• Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni meets donors, vows on corruption

• EU Council endorses Joint Caribbean-EU Partnership Strategy

• Survey: 77 percent of banks in Latin America and the Caribbean plan to increase credit to SMEs

• Easing of restraints in Cuba renews debate on US embargo

• $2.9M AfDB grant for economic, financial reform in The Gambia

• Developing Asian economies must focus on greener, more inclusive growth - ADB

• AfDB funds road infrastructure in Tanzania

• World Bank releases climate report ahead of climate change conference

• Clinton to visit Middle East in move to defuse Gaza conflict

• Save the Children appeals for funding for Syrian children refugees

• $1.2M EU aid for flood-hit Bangladesh

• 38 aid agencies warn of humanitarian disaster in Gaza

• Switzerland provides Syrian refugees in Turkey with support

• Water storage efforts reverse migration in Pakistan

• Red Cross provides $643,124 to typhoon-affected families in the Philippines

• Sri Lanka gets $98M from ADB to develop roads in country’s north

• FAO says rice production outpacing consumption

• The political economy of food security in North Africa

• ‘How can the Sahel break from its recurring cycle of food crises?’

• The idea: Develop phone apps to improve food security

• Sanitation ‘most-off track’ of MDGs

• Lack of toilets among leading causes of child deaths, says UNICEF on World Toilet Day

• UN starts work on action plan for risk reduction

• UNICEF gains $4.8M to combat child malnutrition in Yemen

• UN official appeals for $79M in urgent aid for displaced communities in Pakistan

• JICA, winner of UN’s South-South Cooperation Award

• UNHCR tackles problem of shelter in Yemen refugee camp

• UN agency chief clarifies World Health Organization’s work with food and beverage industry

• UN chief pushes for political dialogue in divided Yemen

• UNEP highlights progress on south-south cooperation at Vienna Expo

• UNICEF calls for the protection of children in eastern DRC

• WFP distributes 72 tons of food aid to earthquake victims in Guatemala

• US launches program for public health experts in Bangladesh

• Launched: The US-ASEAN INSPIRE initiative

• USAID supports livestock project in Ethiopia

• Toward an AIDS-free world

• After Hurricane Sandy, a renewed interest in climate change policy in the US

• Inclusive green growth mediated sustainable development

• Desert dreams: Can Qatar learn to feed itself?

• On people in polio-eradication programs: They need other medicine too

• Philippines, ‘NGO Capital of the World’?

• Development community talks about ending global poverty

• The Global Fund and value for money – Amanda Glassman

• Should Europe be promoting organic food in the developing world?

• Why markets, not NGOs, are key to solving the sanitation crisis

• Taming the ‘foreign agents’

• Aid and interest

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