Development news roundup: Kofi Annan’s report on Syria peace plan, World Bank’s appeal for Palestinian territories, and more

Today, we reported:

• Security Council awaits Annan’s report on Assad’s response to peace plan

• Palestinian Authority needs urgent economic aid – World Bank

• New IsDB aid supports Nigeria’s education sector

• New partnership seeks to insure Asian farmers

• IDB development research grants up for grabs

• Education key to successful Arab region reforms, experts say

• New tool maps aid projects, climate info in Africa

• Making PPPs work

• Water researcher says focus on people, not infrastructure

Other must reads:

• Rio+Social takes UN conference to digital sphere

• UNDP, 25 institutions sign Global Water Solidarity Platform

• Germany offers $1.3M to protect Tunisian refugees

• USAID, OIC to strengthen cooperation on humanitarian issues, disaster response

• Ban Ki-moon: ‘Unleash potential of small farmers to improve food security’

• UK medical volunteers to train more than 17,000 health workers in Africa and Asia

• EBRD president says Arab Spring recovery will take time, will focus on private sector development, jobs creation

• What’s next for Egypt and Syria? Young diplomats from 40 countries discuss at Arab awakening panel

• Giorgio Armani’s partnership with UNICEF on its third year, will sponsor 2012 tap project

• OECD report warns inaction could cause irreversible damage to environment, result in costly consequences

• World Bank approves $100M credit in support of Mozambique’s poverty-reduction priorities

• Tanzania to receive $100M World Bank credit as direct budget support

• World Bank to provide $10M additional financing for Benin’s health sector

• US seeks to free $50M aid to promote democracy, civil society in Russia

• In line with settlement, British contractor pays $46.2M for Tanzania’s educations projects

• Lack of coordination results in uninhabited emergency shelters, while many Haitians remain homeless

• Philippines urged to tap social media to help expats trapped in Syrian conflict

• UK commits $15M to help send Zimbabwean orphans to school

• ActionAid responds to Gambia’s food, seed crisis

• Sida announces new funding for Cambodian gender equality program

• World Water Forum to take up ‘the nexus approach’ to water development issues

• Yemen needs $2B in aid to fund 2012 budget

• Bangladesh finance minister says government seeks to settle Padma bridge row with World Bank

• UK nominates Suma Chakrabarti to be EBRD’s next president

• Rio+20 success needs ‘fundamental transformation of existing practices,’ experts say

• Social scientist says Norway deserves OECD’s best donor ranking

• Development Policy Center picks out salient points from World Bank’s report on Pacific island countries

• US global AIDS coordinator: ‘Evidence-based science drives our efforts’

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• AidData.org tracks 20 years’ worth of global development finance data, sees increasing role of private flows

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