Development news roundup: The business of 'giving back', Jim Yong Kim's 'end poverty' game plan, and more

Today, we reported:

• The business of ‘giving back’

• Jim Yong Kim’s ‘end poverty’ game plan

• The struggle to address HIV-related stigma

• South Sudanese gain $48M UK aid

• EU, Angola bring cooperation ‘forward’

• The better ‘right’: Intellectual property or saving human lives?

Other must reads:

• Jordan on track to receive some $2B from IMF

• AfDB OKs funds for rehabilitation of Burkina Faso, Togo corridor

• Report pushes for development-focused approach to mining in Africa

• New USAID project in Sindh supports dates production

• World Bank helps address Nigeria infrastructure deficit with new $200M fund

• Donors help Ghanaian health agency distribute treated bed nets

• Argentinian civil society network reflects on Rio+20

• Soon: Open access to DfID development research work

• EBRD says Russia inching toward economic slump

• A review of MCC-funded power projects in Tanzania

• USAID funds 8 electoral programs in Georgia

• The World Bank’s new ICT strategy

• 2nd phase of UN-backed campaign against polio, measles in Afghanistan to start September

• Security Council extends mandate of UN monitoring group in Eritrea, Somalia

• Can climate change drive ‘political instability?’

• ‘Not all development problems require new solutions’

• Language, ‘neglected’ in development?

• The Nation: Christine Lagarde’s promise to ‘listen more’ to Asia ‘not good enough’

• Afghan soldiers deliver aid to Helmand province flood victims

• State Department says WIPO did not break UN rules

• In DRC, conflict hampers anti-cholera efforts

• 40,000 malaria patients in DRC get treatment via MSF

• Irish FM tours East Africa on aid, trade agenda

• Experts weigh in on future of world’s water security

• Access to funding a major concern of CSOs with EU — report

• ‘Education tsunami’ thanks to technology?

• Australia needs to ‘move beyond crisis response’ in Africa

• Should the international community also follow a ‘zero-tolerance’ policy on coups?

• Burundi, the ‘education poster child’ for MDGs?

• Bangladeshi finance minister: World Bank decision on Padma bridge ‘needs review’

• Insecurity in Afghanistan a problem for health care

• Short on funding, WFP cuts down food size for IDPs in Pakistan

• Canada leaves Afghanistan’s Kandahar with no Dahla Dam

• Aung San Suu Kyi highlights issues of ethnic minorities in first Parliamentary speech

• Nepal eyes half a million ‘improved’ cookstoves in next 5 years

• Europe should set ‘more ambitious’ goals on CO2 emissions — report

• Upon government’s invitation, UN special rapporteur on human rights to visit Myanmar July 30-Aug. 4

• Irish foreign affairs minister Eamon Gilmore to explore trade opportunities on Uganda, Kenya visit

• BMZ installs solar panels to reduce carbon emissions

• Security Council extends UNAMI mandate

• Community in Ukraine anticipating Peace Corps-built playground

• US backs UN roadmap on Camp Ashraf

• IDB-approved $15M loan goes to solid waste management project in Peru

• Spain announces $12M support for the Global Fund

• UN expert: ‘I was shocked by the child mortality rate in Kiribati’

• UN calls on strengthened effort to fight viral hepatitis

• In Africa, locally-sourced solutions work better

• UN Security Council hails progress of Somalia transition, highlights remaining challenges

• France is now full member of Climate and Clean Air Coalition

• Private sector-led growth key to Palestinian territories’ development – World Bank

• UN scales back largely unfunded Haiti aid appeal

• Donors remain concerned over continued violence in Syria

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