Development news roundup: New initiatives on World Malaria Day, donors moving too fast in Myanmar, and more
Today, we reported:
- New initiatives on World Malaria Day
- Are donors moving too fast in Myanmar?
- Tony Blair to donors: Stop ‘foot dragging’ not funding for malaria
- 5 steps to zero deaths from measles, rubella
- OECD calls for more coherent, cohesive EU aid program
- Program for Return initiative garners $396M in pledges
- WFP prepares to aid 500,000 Syrians
- Kevin Watkins: Cutting long-term aid for South Sudan is ‘bad advice’
Other must-reads:
- Sub-Saharan Africa: The most challenging place for adolescents
- Inequality in Latin America higher than Africa, parts of Asia - report
- New anti-corruption initiative eyes engagement with private sector
- UK supports Scaling-Up Renewable Energy Program with additional $40M
- 3 groups compete to head UNFFCC’s new Climate Technology Center
- $250,000 awaits innovators in vaccine delivery
- US announces $120M in emergency aid for Horn of Africa
- In Europe, diabetes prevention, treatment cost $119B annually
- Report says Vietnam should prioritize public spending in education
- Put agriculture, food security high on global development agenda - IFPRI report
- Should countries scale up rice intensification to boost food security?
- George Ingram leads experts tapped for Publish What You Fund’s new US aid transparency committee
- Study: Climate change threatens sub-Saharan Africa’s fisheries sector
- NGO: Development food aid needs $450M a year
- USAID-funded project show ‘significant’ success in reducing maternal mortality in Dominican Republic
- ICAI gives DfID ‘green amber’ for electoral assistance through UNDP
- Tips to co-create inclusive ICT programs for health, education and economic development
- Red Cross to distribute food, mosquito nets in flood-hit countries in South America
- Disagreements between developed and developing nations threaten to ruin UNCTAD
- Environmental experts fear Rio+20 could end up as ‘major step backwards for nature’
- Poverty reduction, MDGs need nutrition
- On the spotlight: Struggling resettled farmers in Zimbabwe
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