Development news roundup: Japan’s makes first contribution to Global Fund, Haiti’s vaccination program up in the air, and more

Today, we reported:

• Japan fulfills part of 2012 Global Fund pledge

• Future of Haiti vaccination program still uncertain

• Australian lawmaker wants more foreign aid for Afghanistan

• US doctors, nurses sought to help beef up health capacity overseas

• Donors to push for governance talks in Rio+20

• DfID steps up aid for Mali, Niger and Yemen

• Al-Shabab bans Save the Children from Somalia

• Funding opportunity: DfID health research competition

• Obama, Cameron renew commitment to development

Other must reads:

• Private sector contributing to delivery of reliable, safe water worldwide

• Entrepreneur urges youth at World Bank’s Global Youth Conference: Do something crazy

• FAO seeks shift in Asia’s food production philosophy

• MDB, African parliamentarians eye ways to boost region’s private sector

• USAID-JICA partnership promotes water financing in sub-Saharan Africa

• Voluntary guidelines for land tenure, access to fisheries and forests submitted for final approval

• IFC, CDC to provide financing for private sector development in South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa

• Norway donates $1.5M to Ethiopia’s climate change adaptation projects

• UN Women, Rockefeller Foundation need your views on sustainable development, Rio+20

• International community allocates ‘paltry 3 percent’ for gender equality programs

• Evidence in support of microfinance ‘unclear, unreliable and inconclusive’

• Cocoa initiative expected to benefit 100,000 farmers in Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Cameroon and Nigeria

• Sadako Ogata says more discussions needed before deciding on aid policy strategies

• AFD backs clean energy projects in Zambia

• Tanzania secures $67.38M grant for MDG programs

• Oxfam calls for transparency, accountability in Pakistani flood response

• AmfAR VP lists why cutting PEPFAR is bad policy

• Jonathan Glennie to NGOs: Don’t compete, collaborate

• Poverty levels are falling, but development aid shouldn’t

• Sri Mulyani for World Bank president? Development Policy Center tells you why

• Nuru International CEO says extreme poverty is linked to global terrorism

• Can the World Bank convince civil society it can be trusted?

• As East Timor celebrates a decade of independence, can upcoming elections prove the country’s stability?

• Syria approves OIC humanitarian aid

• Sudan rebel group says yes to delivery of humanitarian aid to South Kordofan, Blue Nile

• Bob Carr sworn in as the new Australian Foreign Affairs Minister

• Health minister denies asking Global Fund to cut funding for health programs in Namibia

• $14M project to support food security in Ghana

• Amnesty International report exposes torture of Syrians in detention

• AlertNet calls for ideas to end hunger

• Government blamed for looming food crisis in Chad

• Is the developing world learning English more effectively via mobile phones?

• ActionAid warns of looming food shortage in The Gambia

• Nine African countries commit to improving access to water and sanitation

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