Development news roundup: House oversight committee members zero in on USAID Forward, proposed EU budget for 2013, and more

Today, we reported:

• House oversight committee members zero in on USAID implementation, procurement reforms

• European Commission releases proposed EU budget for 2013

• World Bank on Myanmar: New office, assessment programs

• Brian Atwood: 2 steps to transparency

• Sudan government sends mixed signals on aid access

• Two South Darfur NGOs forced to close

• AusAID says some lost funds cannot be recovered

• US gets passing mark on food security

• Jonathan Glennie to Africa: Beware of donors, DAC or BRICS

Other must reads

• New from McKinsey: Website focusing on business solutions to global challenges

• DfID to provide South Sudan additional emergency aid worth $24M

• Ban Ki-moon stresses importance of improving women, children’s health in India

• UN conference: Trade will be an essential factor in economic growth

• Obama waives aid restrictions for Palestinian territories

• World Bank to support Pakistan’s education, natural gas sectors with $550M

• 1990 Iraq invasion victims to receive $1B in compensation

• MCC to give Philippine province $3M

• Malaria advocates, policymakers call on EU parliament to provide ‘predictable funding’ for 2014-2020 global malaria response

• DfID supports Tanzania’s legislative program with $2.3M

• UK’s support for energy-efficient projects: $97M for carbon capture and storage plants in developing countries

• In Africa: Don’t just create salaried jobs, also increase productivity of youth in informal sectors

• To save Sahel, place Arms Trade Treaty in Mali now – Oxfam arms trade policy adviser

• $3M World Bank grant to support land registration in West Bank

• World Bank’s strategy in Afghanistan 2012-2014: Capacity building, equitable service delivery, inclusive growth

• UK to support new results-based financing facility in low-income countries

• Attention NGOs: Funding opportunity for programs in the Caucasus for IDPs, refugees

• OECD-DAC pledges to continue support for developing countries’ pursuit for greener, inclusive growth

• UNCTAD head: ‘Tradition worth continuing’

• Malaria fight: A matter of funding

• The Global Fund’s tranformation is ‘well underway’

• South Korea to support irrigation project in the Philippines with $211M loan

• Red Cross Africa zone director: ‘Grow the food that Africa needs in Africa’

• $4.6M ECOWAS humanitarian support to mitigate suffering of refugees, IDPs in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger

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