Development news roundup: London family planning summit, development aid lost to corruption, and more

Today, we reported:

• A war for women’s future

• A tale of two causes: Family planning and AIDS

• 30 percent of aid lost to corruption - Ban Ki-moon

• To-do-list for CIDA’s new leader

• Mixed reactions to GHI’s death notice

• Experts to disaster officials: Don’t forget social factors

• Now open: FAO liaison office for agricultural cooperatives

Other must reads:

• $9.95B EU funds up for grabs for proposals targeting growth and job creation

• ‘Bad laws’ undermine global HIV fight

• UNPOS head Augustine Mahiga to Somalia: ‘Seize golden opportunity for peace’

• Just another talk? Assad reassures Annan of commitment to peace plan

• EU remains largest Aid for Trade provider

• Value-for-money policy a cause of delay in early crisis response

• New WTO rules’ risks and benefits to LDCs

• Will Obama attend the 2012 AIDS Conference in Washington?

• Japan to pursue donors for Padma bridge project

• Congolese government sees refugees in Rwanda as ‘traitors’

• In South Sudan, USAID concerned it is ‘losing ground’ on achievements amid crisis

• Chinese activities not official aid, says IFPRI senior research fellow

• Bernd Debusmann, a journalist and shooting victim, makes case for arms treaty

• In a conservative media outlet, tax expert bashes UN for tax proposal

• Engage the poor in poverty reduction decisions – Rwanda’s information bureau chief

• PNG sustainable development program’s commercial ventures disappointing?

• Youth unemployment takes spotlight at ADB forum

• UNAIDS chief: We’re counting on France to move financial transaction tax forward

• Belarus welcomes World Bank team for talks on reform agenda, country outlook

• WFP promises more than lifesaving support in South Sudan

• JICA enters into expert exchange partnership for wetland conservation

• In Paraguay, 10,000 flood-hit families require food aid

• Rajiv Shah heads to London for family planning summit

• Catherine Ashton, Asia-bound

• From Ban Ki-moon, best wishes for South Sudan

• Eric Goosby talks PEPFAR’s future prospects

• US State Department hosts innovation boot camp for young West African entrepreneurs

• UN independent experts bemoans human rights situation in Philippines

• Hillary Clinton hopes more countries join new global network for democracies

• FAO calls for improved fisheries management

• More Canadian aid for counternarcotics in Afghanistan

• Social conflict now part of CCAPS mapping tool

• Public sector should strengthen Africa’s ‘entrepreneurial capacity‘ — former Ghanian President John Kufuor

• Nigerian state to double spending to meet MDGs

• EBRD vice president to run for Czech presidency

• UN climate change agency hosts first long-term finance workshop

• OECD report suggests guidelines on ‘fishery recovery’

• Africa, ‘design effective national development strategies’ — former UN deputy secretary general

• AfDB eyes ‘enhanced’ private sector financing in Ethiopia

• Improving women traders’ situation tops agenda at African gender pre-summit

• Nigerian NGOs seek media freedom, independence

• USAID to fund 5-year mobile library project

• Financial education program targets marginalized Yemeni youth

• In principle, JICA agrees to fund infrastructure projects in Tamil Nadu state, India

• Educating mothers key to saving children’s lives

• $64M USAID contract goes to Abt Associates’ malaria prevention program in Uganda

• Jharkhand police, Save the Children MOU ensures proper rehab of trafficked children

• Comprehensive HIV-treatment strategy needed in developing countries — WHO

• Human Rights Watch Asia director calls on Hillary Clinton to press Cambodian PM to improve human rights situation

• International community should offer more ‘carrots’ than ‘sticks’ to encourage Sudan, South Sudan dialogue

• Transparency International protests proposed Russian law curtailing civil society work

• MDG indicator on safe water ‘overestimates’ MDG progress — study

• Maldives looks into voluntary tourist tax to fund CO2 plan

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