Development news roundup: EU leaders’ summit fails to produce budget deal, lessons for climate finance, and more

Today, we reported:

• EU leaders’ summit fails to produce budget deal

• In Doha, lessons for climate finance

• Aid on the spotlight anew as Egyptian president assumes new powers

• Fighting continues to hamper aid work in Congo

• Global thinkers in development

Other must reads:

• UN begins flying in aid for IDPs in Myanmar’s Rakhine state

• UN delivers aid to Syrians as winter approaches

• On visit to South Sudan, senior UN official spotlights ‘forgotten refugee crisis’

• EBRD approves $13.35M loan for construction of new bridge linking Armenia, Georgia

• IOM scales up response to Congo crisis, appeals for funding

• Safe water supply runs low in Yemen – OCHA

• EBRD adopts new country strategy for Lithuania

• EIB continues financial aid for urban infrastructure development in Moravia

• UNAIDS to host Google+ Hangout ahead of World AIDS Day 2012

• Norwegian FM, ICRC president highlight need to protect health care workers in conflict areas

• UN appeal for Sahel crisis 2012 is 68 percent funded

• Julian Fantino on Canada’s international development objectives

• IOM: More than 350,000 displaced Haitians still living in camps

• UK, Japan boost Pakistan flood response

• US Department of State officials to tackle women’s entrepreneurship issues on trip to Haiti

• Energy insecurity dominates at innovative solutions conference

• USAID administrator to head to Turkey

• WHO hails political leaders’ support for malaria plan

• Canada’s development minister to visit Haiti

• Ban Ki-moon: Policy, planning must include disaster risk reduction

• Nepal seeks ADB approval for Melamchi Drinking Water Project

• Africans trade their way out of poverty

• How the founder of a travel company won a grant from IDB

• Wanted: Program management consultant for ADB road project in Azerbaijan

• In Maldives, a $20M project to help develop SMEs

• Cell phones reshape prostitution in India, and complicate efforts to prevent AIDS

• Uganda’s ‘anti-homosexuality bill’ would be disastrous for HIV response

• USAID, World Bank sponsor programs of transparency in public administration in Dominican Republic provinces

• President Paul Kagame’s former private secretary: UK aid to Rwanda is funding a ‘repressive regime’

• Turkish businessmen have ‘strong desire’ to invest in Yemen

• 10 worst countries for child vaccination – report

• Sudan: ICRC facilitates handover of released soldiers in Darfur

• ICRC donates equipment to improve water supply in Guinea

• Morocco sets up medical field hospital, sends humanitarian aid for people in Gaza

• Aid agencies working on contingency plans for Gaza

• In Madagascar: Cyclones meet fewer relief supplies

• Food, child-friendly spaces help children recover in Gaza

• The limits of untrained health workers

• IFRC launches emergency aid appeal for Gaza

• Ghana: Small change, big difference

• E-learning helps close training gap among midwives in Uganda

• Savings and development in Uganda

• In Malawi, task-sharing among health workers becoming common practice

• UNESCO head faces early leadership challenge

• Nigeria continues to need aid, 2 months after worst flood in 40 years

• School for Syrian refugees opens in Jordan camp

• UNECE, Philippines to establish health center

• Philippine health department taps private sector for a TB-free Central Luzon

• ADB agrees to fund agricultural and municipal waste-to-energy projects in China

• Canada appoints high commissioners for South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago

• Italian diplomat Ugo Astuto is new EEAS director for South and Southeast Asia

• JICA resumes activities in Yemen

• A post-Busan, post-2015 nexus: What role for the Global Partnership?

• Report finds aid fraud in Uganda was ‘very sophisticated, well-thought-out’

• Partnerships for social good and sustainable development take on a new look

• Ban Ki-moon calls on world leaders to end violence against women

• ADB funds upgrades to Bangladesh’s regional transport corridors

• What the US needs to do with its new aid package for Myanmar

• In perspective: USAID moves in the right direction

• The war against poverty starts with a battle of ideas

• Does the future of farming in Africa lie in the private sector?

• Spotlight on women-owned businesses

• Planes, barges and trucks in South Sudan

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