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    Development news roundup: Russia to support UN resolution on Syria, call to action ahead of World Tuberculosis Day, and more

    By Devex Editor // 20 March 2012

    Today, we reported:

    • Russia to support UN resolution on Syria

    • Ahead of World Tuberculosis Day, a call to action

    • Save the UK aid budget

    • New IDB funds for security, economic development await Latin America, Caribbean

    • WFP addresses food aid diversion reports in Mogadishu

    • CIDA slashes funding for church-based NGOs

    • Road to Rio+20 heats up

    • Muhammad Yunus makes case for creating social businesses

    Other must reads:

    • Kristalina Georgieva announces $329M aid program for Horn of Africa on Danida’s 50th anniversary

    • AfDB to hold partnership forum March 22-23 in Tunis

    • AfDB grants $63M to boost agricultural research, development of strategic crops in Africa

    • WFP rolls out new feeding program in Bangladesh

    • UN, AfDB strengthen partnership to support post-conflict countries

    • WHO: Southeast Asia needs ‘urgent action’ to curb growing health challenges

    • UN survey says Palestinians losing access to water owing to Israeli settlers’ seizure of springs

    • EU to provide $46M as funding for projects in the Palestinian territories

    • Israel to donors: Honor your commitments to Palestinian territories

    • IDEO.org executive director shares how the nonprofit tackles social challenges via prototypes

    • Five days to nominations deadline and US doesn’t seem to have final candidate to head World Bank

    • In Brussels, European NGOs prepared common strategy for World Bank, IMF spring meetings

    • Mozambique to receive $53.8M worth of loans, grants from France

    • Red tape delays foreign development aid projects in Cuba

    • In the Philippines, TB eradication linked to meeting nutrition, housing MDGs

    • WFP provides technical assistance training to small-holder farmers in Ghana

    • Experts say Egypt’s health system needs increased funding

    • WFP pulls out food rations from nearly 90,000 IDPs in Darfur camp

    • Refugees International calls on Kenya to resume registration of new arrivals to Dadaab

    • NGOs unveiled report explaining large dams’ unsustainability at World Water Forum

    • TB Alliance announces launch of new combination drug trial

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