Development news roundup: Gaza health woes worsen, World Bank seeks input on safeguard policies, and more

Today, we reported:

• Gaza health woes worsen as hostilities escalate

• World Bank seeks public input on safeguard policies

• A boost to midsize firms eyeing overseas expansion

• Tunisia to seek $4.4B in foreign aid for 2013

• Soon: Foreign affairs committee assignments

• A ‘new goal’ for sanitation

Other must reads:

• Kristalina Georgieva: ‘The world needs EU Aid volunteers’

• WHO conference adopts protocal to curb illicit trade on tobacco

• UK suspends aid to Uganda with ‘immediate effect’

• Andris Piebalgs on how EU is ‘energizing’ Africa

• US, Myanmar pledge cooperation on fight against human trafficking 

• In Singapore, Hillary Clinton talks US engagement in Asia-Pacific 

• US Department of State releases fiscal 2012 financial report

• IFC helps Central Asian microfinance institutions attract savings, expand formal economies

• IOM calls for increased support as number of cholera cases continue to rise in Haiti

• EU foreign affairs council meeting to tackle Middle East, Syria, Ukraine, Mali

• Norway cancels Ivory Coast’s outstanding $32.7M debt

• ADB helps fund cleanup of one of China’s most polluted lakes

• Germany lauds Mark Dybul’s appointment, releases $127.6M contribution to Global Fund

• Jordanian bank joins EBRD’s trade facilitation initiative

• Brazilian state to receive $600M IDB loan to consolidate fiscal stability

• Switzerland to host Africa CEO Forum from Nov. 20-21

• UN highlights low-cost newborn care services on World Prematurity Day

• UN experts raise concerns over ‘landmark’ Southeast Asian human rights declaration

• Security Council extends mandate of UN peacekeeping force in Abyei

• UNHCR reports sharp increase in arrivals at South Sudan refugee camp

• More internally displaced Yemenis returning to their homes – UNHCR

• EU allocates $1.27M more humanitarian aid for Rakhine violence victims

• UKCDS to hold town hall meetings on health research for development

• IMF concludes latest review of Dominican Republic’s economic policies 

• Germany sends humanitarian aid to flood-affected

• International partners pledge continuing support for Burundi

• Germany’s Gudrun Kopp stresses need for coherent policy approach to engagement in fragile states

• Canada and the Canadian Foodgrains Bank: Partners in providing food assistance

• Swiss cooperation with Eastern Europe helps fledgling market economies with reforms

• Just launched: Child Protection Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Action

• New UNDP project zeroes in on gender inequality in Afghanistan

• Netherlands donates $21M to WFP-led road rehabilitation activities in South Sudan

• Jim Yong Kim on neglected diseases

• JICA keen to invest in transport, infrastructure projects in Karachi, Pakistan

• To achieve middle-income status, World Bank advises Bangladesh to invest in infrastructure, human development

• Nigeria eyes partnership with research institutions to address food security

• Rounding up disaster volunteers, via new apps

• Africa not making as much progress as hoped on MDGs: UN official

• ADB official: Dawei project is ‘good for Thailand’

• Innovative idea powers South African shanty towns

• Yemen, Iraq sign development cooperation agreement

• In Bangladesh, ADB identifies project implementation bottlenecks in review of projects 

• USAID has earmarked $130M for Peru in 2013

• OECD’s Karen Jorgensen on peer reviews of DAC members

• After Hurrican Sandy, Haiti ‘slipping deeper into crisis’

• In charity work, ‘good intentions are not enough’ 

• UN demands end to foreign aid to Congo rebels

• Why Nigeria can’t meet MDG targets

• US army developing new humanitarian airdrop system

• Pakistan approves emergency action plan for polio eradication

• New allegations surface against USAID-funded Philippine NGO

• Ukrainian companies interested in building power plants, bridges in Pakistan 

• ICRC warns of human cost of military intervention in Mali

• The long, slow tragedy of chronic hunger in southern Africa

• Are pension funds the ‘missing link’ to African Development?

• Axel van Trotsenburg: Development aid in a changing world

• Leave it to the private sector: Business-led developmentalism

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