Development news roundup: MSF presses for action on drug-resistant TB, military coup threatens 'development gains' in Mali, and more
Today, we reported:
- MSF presses for action on drug-resistant TB
- Military coup threatens ‘development gains’ in Mali
- New partnership offers ‘best of US’ solutions to global water challenges
- US aid to Egypt no longer in limbo
- UN chief stresses need for holistic Rio+20 outcome
- On water and food security: A case for sustainable agriculture practices
- Secondary education in India to get $500M facelift
- 8 organizations team up for nutrition
- Some lessons from recent water forums in France
- TB fight goes dry
- DfID’s investment in water and sanitation, a trickle in the budget?
Other must reads:
- FAO calls for action on food-and-mouth disease outbreak in Egypt, North Africa
- EU pledges additional $9.2M humanitarian aid for Syria
- Now available in the Philippines: Local water governance toolbox
- UAE, UK agree to tackle poverty, promote growth in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen
- World Bank approves $75M for providing safe water to 1.6M Bangladeshis
- World tobacco conference panelists agree full implementation of WHO FCTC needed
- Margaret Chan urges world to stand with Australia in tobacco fight
- Malaysia’s experience in successful poverty fight could help ‘global South’
- UN, Indonesia launch disaster-preparedness package
- UK to support Tanzania’s rural sanitation development projects
- Conflict drives Sudanese farmers away from fields
- International Water Management Institute is 2012 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate
- IDEX evaluation report details effectiveness of its grant-making model
- African finance ministers support Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for World Bank president
- USGLC says cutting international affairs budget ‘will leave hot spots around the world unaddressed’
- ‘Credible developing country candidates’ may make it hard for US to hand World Bank job to a favored ‘lieutenant’
- Duncan Green asks: ‘What should a European voice on development say?’
- Andy Wales and doing business in increasingly resource-scarce world
- Join the debate: Is SXSW idea to ‘wire’ homeless people innovative or disrespectful?
- Carnegie associates say World Bank’s system for appointing presidents extends to senior managers too
- Peace Corps-like program in Australia?
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