Development news roundup: House appropriators cut $5B from State-foreign operations budget, development projects in Pakistan in jeopardy, and more

Today, we reported:

• State-foreign operations suffer $5B cuts under House appropriators

• Development projects in jeopardy in Pakistan

• Kenya wants $500M from unspent PEPFAR funds

• Young leaders lend voice to UNAIDS youth agenda

• Experts weigh in on role of private sector, philanthropists in anti-malaria campaign

• Africa for Africa: Local research could power way to better health systems

• Beyond 2015: 5 possible scenarios and a reminder

Other must reads:

• Ex-JICA chief Sadako Ogata to chair World Economic Forum Japan

• New Malawi president pledges to fix diplomatic, aid ties

• Dengue epidemic hits Rio de Janeiro

• China agrees to provide humanitarian aid, loans to South Sudan

• New initiative to bolster agricultural resilience through climate knowledge sharing

• UN official: ‘NGOs must be able to operate free from executive interference’

• AfDB report links public health spending to economic benefits

• EU grant, EBRD financing to help Bulgaria lower carbon footprint

• Ban Ki-moon calls on international community to close $3.2B malaria funding gap in Africa

• UN estimates $840M needed in Pakistan relief operations

• U.S. foreign policy under Marco Rubio

• Study to help get development on ‘people’s radar’

• People need peace in Sudan, South Sudan – Pauline Ballaman

• What are people saying about DfID’s work 2 years into coalition government?

• Antonio Guterres: ‘Old crises seem never to die’

• Anne Richard officially joins Bureau for Population, Refugees, and Migration

• UNESCO to name Sunny Varkey Goodwill Ambassador for Education Partnerships

• Ban Ki-moon names three UN staff members filling senior posts

• IDB $27M grant to benefit 40,000 farmers

• US wants to preserve leverage on Myanmar

• Nobel Peace Prize laureates honor Sean Penn with 2012 Peace Summit Award

• US, ADB showing ‘no interest’ in funding Diamer-Bhasha dam in Pakistan

• ECOWAS, Cuba team up to eliminate malaria in West Africa

• Syrian women smuggle food, medicine to activists

• Resistance to Artemisinin drugs suspected in Thailand-Myanmar border and southern Vietnam

• BRICS bank to launch first quarter of 2013

• Red Cross ‘extremely shocked’ over volunteer’s death in Syria

• Foundations to support Frech Red Cross’ READY Fund

• Emma Thompson writes about stumbling blocks to development in Myanmar

• Study: Smarter purchasing strategies could buy more anti-malaria bednets, save more lives

• Looking for a job? Be a Peace Corps volunteer

• UN official to international community: Ask not if reforms can hold in Myanmar, but ‘what can we do to help?’

• MDGs undermining women’s sexual and reproductive rights?

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