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

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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