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    Development news roundup: Gridlock in EU 2013 budget talks, EU financial package to Egypt, and more

    By Devex Editor // 14 November 2012

    Today, we reported:

    • Sticking points in EU 2013 budget talks include additional aid funds

    • EU financial package: A mix of grants and loans for Egypt

    • Social inclusion, accountability central to new World Bank strategy for Yemen

    • FAO recommends: Special facility for ‘win-win’ agricultural investment

    • UNHCR withdraws some staff members from Syria

    • Aid transparency wish list to the US administration

    Other must reads:

    • Niger to remain a key aid recipient for the EU

    • The 3 pillars to EU’s Decent Life for All

    • European Commission’s 7 key objectives for Europe for 2013

    • At IOM-managed seminar, a focus on diaspora skills transfer programs in the Western Balkans

    • Germany earmarks $2.5M for IOM’s work for Syrians

    • UNISDR welcomes G20 backing for disaster risk financing

    • UN humanitarian aid arrives in Hurricane Sandy-affected Cuba

    • Sanitation project in Burkina Faso’s Ouagadougou short of $130M

    • $115M EBRD loan toward the Chirnogeni wind farm project in Romania

    • UNICEF needs $1.5M for emergency response in Rakhine 

    • Launched: The Clinton Health Matters Initiative

    • How to empower civil society in Egypt

    • EU ratifies new Food Assistance Convention

    • Nutrition and income: 2 urgent challenges in Haiti until mid-2013

    • UN refugee agency urges countries to open borders to people fleeing Myanmar’s Rakhine state by boat

    • UNICEF priorities in Rakhine: Prevention of water-borne diseases, support for malnourished children

    • In the Philippines, a call to advance emergency preparedness

    • Global challenges require updated global institutions - UNDP chief

    • World Diabetes Day 2012 focuses on children’s protection

    • UNICEF preparing for winter for Syrian refugees in Jordan

    • Sudan intensifies emergency response against yellow fever outbreak

    • Forum explores private sector engagement in development in Asia-Pacific

    • Irish aid agency to examine ‘risk profiles’ following Uganda aid fraud

    • What’s the real score behind Africa’s growth story?

    • Tearfund helps provide safe drinking water in Kandahar

    • ECOWAS donates $382,000 for flood victims in Nigeria

    • Hunger drives acceptance of new staples in Malawi

    • New TB test ‘get people on treatment faster’

    • Uzbekistan secures $37.04M IsDB loan for updgrade of oncological institutions 

    • How transparent is world aid data? A visualization

    • War uproots 2.5M Syrians, aid groups say

    • Analyst predicts Ghana would miss MDG on education

    • Stronger ties with South Korea in Bangladesh’s future

    • IsDB to lend $1.6B for Iranian wastewater projects

    • Michigan State University secures $7.8M Gates Foundation grant to improve farming in 8 African countries

    • Canada begins shift from aid to trade in Africa

    • Kenya, France sign $10.7M pact for radio, coffee development

    • Ugandan CSOs launch anti-corruption campaign

    • EU OKs $850M earthquake aid for Italy

    • MSF provides maternal, child health care near Cairo, Egypt

    • ICRC’s first cross-border familiy reunification in Sudan, South Sudan

    • New cassava species developed in Cameroon believed to boost food security

    • Fear of vaccination: The ‘last hurdle’ in polio eradication?

    • IFRC launches aid appeal for Angola

    • US sends medics to East Africa

    • Afghan women fear rights will erode after US troop withdrawal 

    • Al Gore calls on Barack Obama to ‘act boldly’ on climate change

    • Rwandan aid: Greening to reflect ‘very carefully’ before continuing UK support

    • Number of polio cases down worldwide but trouble spots remain, experts say

    • Experts seek global crackdown on fake medicines

    • New agreement to promote private sector infrastructure investment in Indonesia

    • Does it matter who the next US secretary of state is?

    • Helen Clark: We must do more to address costs of climate change

    • Why abandon AMFm if it saves lives?

    • What will 4 more years of Barack Obama mean for Africa?

    • David Bornstein: The rise of social entrepreneur

    • Forget waiting: 3 foreign aid tasks for 3 months

    • How can microfinance support social enterprises in Egypt?

    • 4 ways to improve PEPFAR’s data management, disclosure

    • How airline tax helps fight the Big 3

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