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

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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