Development news roundup: UN climate change conference preview, aid to Gaza Strip and more

Today, we reported:

• Climate change conference: The ‘big issues’

• Aid begins to flow into Gaza Strip

• On the conflict grounds of Congo

• ‘Migration is the mega-trend of the 21st century’

• Investments the ‘only one way’ toward more resilient Haiti – FAO head

Other must reads:

• 1st day of EU budget talks ends in gridlock

• ASEAN adopts human rights declaration

• On JICA president’s travel itinerary: Thailand, Senegal, Europe

• Experts seek sustainable way to develop aviation

• UK officials: Alleged Rwandan support for Congo rebels a key factor for future aid decisions

• EU provides $45M economic aid to Turkish Cypriot community

• European Parliament urges Kazakhstan to improve human rights record

• JICA sends emergency aid to quake-hit Myanmar

• ADB: Asia’s regional bond markets may expand but risks loom

• AfDB, Morocco sign $306.7M in loans for solar power plant project

• AfDB to help improve Cameroon transport sector with $73M loan

• Brazil secures $24.5M IDB loan for sanitation, water improvements in Maues municipality

• Austria, Albania mark 20 years of development cooperation

• $2.35M ADB grant to help Tuvalu improve fiscal management

• ADB OKs $6M loan for Cook Island’s inclusive economic growth efforts

• Germany’s Gudrun Kopp: Violence against women hampers development

• Hans-Jürgen Beerfeltz on direction of German-Tunisian ties

• Heidi Hautala: ‘Afghan women and girls need our full support’

• New Zealand PM welcomes stronger relationship with Myanmar

• A $25.5M research initiative to boost sustainable crop

• Sierra Leone’s 2nd largest city on track to meet MDG on maternal mortality - MSF

• Inflation hampers efforts to boost food security in Pakistan

• NGO expresses concern over planned rebel takeover of another eastern Congolese town

• Women in neighboring countries work together to aid women of eastern Congo

• In Latin America, inequality and economic slowdown hurt hunger reduction efforts

• NGO seeks end to persecution of Bahraini human rights defenders

• In Zimbabwe, e-vouchers boost access to agricultural inputs

• UN to send flour and oil reserves to Kyrgyzstan

• French lawmaker urges united global response to climate change

• UK lawmaker calls for an end to so-called ‘lords of poverty’ phenomenon

• World Bank, Japan host training seminar for Tanzanian NGOs

• Berlin-based group names 10 ‘countries of hope’ for Africa

• Libya offers $126.5M economic aid grant to Tunisia

• Gates Foundation to help train WHO vaccination team in Angola

• In Nepal, donors reiterate call to prevent use of aid for violence, political gains

• A look at World Bank’s work in rural Myanmar

• China talks development, cooperation engagement in East Asia 

• How do aid doctors work in world’s most murderous nation?

• Why we need to focus on women farm workers

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