Development news roundup: Review of DfID oversight of EU aid spending, ADB-backed energy project in Philippines, and more

Today, we reported:

• DfID oversight of EU aid spending in poor countries gets ‘amber-red’ rating

• ADB, Philippines get electronic vehicle project on the road

• A $65M recovery plan for typhoon-hit Mindanao

• In Myanmar, DfID focuses work on fiscal reform

• Susan Rice critic wants to join SFRC

• EU 2013 budget process on to final step

Other must reads:

• Afghanistan’s acting women’s affairs head shot dead on Human Rights Day

• EU provides $3.6M for two human rights programs in Morocco

• UNAIDS calls for zero discrimination and ensuring rights to health, dignity and security on Human Rights Day

• On Human Rights Day, UN officials highlight how every voice counts

• Africans define the future they want

• ICT is ‘transforming the development landscape in Africa, injecting new dynamism in key sectors’ 

• UN officials urge support for integrated strategy to tackle crisis in Africa’s Sahel region

• More than 600 schools looted or damaged by Congo violence this year – UNICEF 

• AfDB and researchers launch $63M initiative to lift Africans out of poverty

• UK aid to Africa coursed through investment funds in tax haven of Mauritius 

• Somalia’s journey from disaster to resilience a test case for development

• Burundi’s returning refugees face new challenge of deadly cholera outbreak

• More than $4.4B needed to provide universal access to anti-retroviral drugs in Nigeria 

• EU provides $38.7M additional humanitarian aid for Syrians

• A summary of US humanitarian aid to Syria

• Germany expels Syrian diplomats

• Danish Refugee Council expands winter aid for Syrian refugees and their hosts 

• Japan contributes $6M for WFP programs in Bangladesh 

• Asia’s future food security hinges on modernization of farm-to-market chains

• Bangladesh finalizes negotiations on $898M JICA aid package

• China secures $150M ADB loan for waterway transport project in Hunan province

• EBRD approves $51.8M to help boost Croatia’s economy ahead of EU accession 

• Bolivia secures $20M IDB loan for municipal solid waste management project

• EBRD arranges $125M financing for Ukrainian grain sector

• $25.9M EBRD loan for SME development in Morocco

• ADB to assist member nations in implementing Islamic finance standards

• AfDB launches 3rd call for proposals for migration and development fund

• IsDB opens $35M Central Asian fund for renewable energy

• Greater Mekong ministers to review new phase of development priorities

• Countries eligible for compacts and threshold programs up for discussion at next MCC town hall meeting 

• UNHCR urges US to strengthen fight against statelessness 

• Nepal Peace Trust Fund gets $500‚000 from USAID

• USAID helps improve water supply in Islamabad

• IDB launches initiative to reduce high school dropouts in Latin America

• IDB to host seminars on fighting corruption in Latin America

• Oxfam-commissioned survey says Haiti quake survivors need rent money, jobs

• ‘Neglected crops’ have ‘crucial role’ in hunger fight – FAO

• WFP, largest user of Dubai-based aid logistics center

• Sierra Leone receives $50M grant to boost food security

• ‘Landscape approach,’ a good way forward for REDD+? 

• Greenprint: A new approach to cooperation on climate change

• 3 reasons why now is ‘a good time to be alive as a development professional’

• What went on at the Challenges for Participatory Development conference?

• Where’s the global outrage over this modern-day slavery?

• 80 programs to improve the health and lives of women in the developing world

• Cholera in the time of social media

• Debunking myths: 5 things you (probably) didn’t know about the New Alliance and food security

• Post-2015: What African women want 

• 5 takeaways from South Africa’s transition to democracy

• MCC’s impact evaluations challenge us all to do better

• Mobile tech: Saving lives in Africa through vaccinations

• Japanese firms eye African opportunities

• How has the Partners for a New Beginning initiative helped promote entrepreneurship in MENA region?

• Managing director to review Senegal-World Bank partnership

• ICRC assembly appoints 5 new members to committee

• Japan’s representative to the OECD re-appointed as executive committee chair

• Remigiusz Henczel is new Human Rights Council president

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