Development news roundup: UK resumes funding to Malawi, Global Fund to announce new projects by April 2013, and more

Today, we reported:

• UK resumes funding to Malawi

• New projects to be announced by April 2013

• Canada pledges $114M for Africa

• How effective is the global clean cookstove initiative?

• New report puts spotlight on Africa’s social, economic gaps

Other must reads:

• UNDP debunks accusations of ineffective management of Afghan fund

• Catherine Bragg calls on international community to ‘build on the fragile gains’ in Somalia

• Invest in human development, delivery of critical functions in Afghanistan – Valerie Amos

• UNCP, ACP agree to support regional integration, advance sustainable human development

• Australia to help supply 220 water tanks, develop policy to improve water management in Ebeye island

• Justin Lee is Australia’s new ambassador for climate change

• Now online: Global Humanitarian Assistance’s data store that maps and quantifies humanitarian financing

• Amid UNDP’s denial of allegations, donors seek ‘detailed investigation and accountability’ on Afghan trust fund

• IsDB sign food security, other development programs with Niger

• MSF says 160,000 Malian refugees need urgent international aid

• UNDP’s $8.5M emergency capacity development project in Yemen to start this month

• Because of bed nets, malaria no longer the top death-causing disease among Sudanese refugees

• Germany to provide $20.3M in fresh funds to Pakistan

• Bob Geldof to Ethiopia’s prime minister: Be more tolerant of civil society groups to prevent reversal of economic, social gains

• Displacement Working Group report says Israel demolished 62 EU-funded aid projects in West Bank, with 110 more at risk

• American Cancer Society CEO: Fighting noncommunicable diseases is not a job for just governments and multilateral donors

• The United Nations – and the international community – has to meet Haiti’s cholera crisis head on

• Proposed: Halal investment fund

• EU draft opinion on ACTA fails to address MSF’s concerns

• Donors pledge $495M to Tanzania in 2013

• Rajiv Shah and Kristalina Georgieva renew calls to focus on resilience, not just relief

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