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    Development news roundup: UN high-level meeting on polio, new humanitarian aid for Syrians, and more

    By Jenny Lei Ravelo // 27 September 2012

    Today, we reported:

    • Toward a polio-free world

    • Fresh funds for Syrian crisis response

    • A new joint effort to boost access to contraceptives

    • In Kenya, a hub for locally owned climate solutions

    • CIDA shuts down offices in Canada

    Other must-reads:

    • Report outlines current climate change costs to lives, economy

    • Training of civil society groups, NGOs in Caribbean islands critical for climate change adaptation

    • ADB funds green projects in China

    • Report links climate change to economic losses

    • Nepal’s financial management reforms project secures ADB, UK backing

    • US official cites need to promote democracy worldwide

    • Russia’s civil society crackdown continues

    • New roadmap for NGOs in Haiti aims to ‘weed out bad apples’

    • Cambodian NGOs call on donors to link aid to government reforms

    • USGLC on Romney, Obama speeches at CGI 2012

    • Bonn Symposium 2012 to look at EU’s role in the UN

    • Insiders: US special representative to Syria to step down by end of September

    • A closer look at the UK development program: Graphs and charts

    • US funds rehabilitation of juvenile prisons in Antigua and Barbuda

    • US signs $340M development assistance agreement with Nigeria

    • Bela Hovy: Migration now a key part of the global economy

    • Acted’s Marie-Pierre Caley on microfinance

    • Without education, early marriage only option for girls in Uganda

    • MasterCard Foundation launches $500M scholarship for African students

    • UN, partners prepare response for IDPs in DRC province

    • Hillary Clinton on Somalia: ‘We have to continue to keep focus on the refugee population’

    • Irish NGOs invite recent retirees to volunteer for aid work

    • ICRC opens tracking office in Al Zaatari refugee camps

    • UN members divided over response to Mali crisis

    • In Niger, aid agencies scramble to repair schools after floods

    • Catherine Ashton calls for partnerships, political awareness on global water issues

    • Latest assessments hint at better food security situation in Somalia

    • AfDB OKs water grant for Zambia

    • http://allafrica.com/stories/201209260837.html

    • Ghana exceeds MDG target for safe water – UNICEF chief field officer

    • Malaysian AIDS Council needs foreign funding to support its activities

    • Oxfam: ‘Recurrence of food crises is simply unacceptable’

    • Food speculation not addressed enough in European Parliament legislation

    • US Olympic gold medalists Ryan Lochte and Conor Dwyer join call to provide safe water access for all

    • Canada will match every dollar World Vision raises for the food crisis in West Africa

    • Disparate partners find promise in Africa’s agriculture

    • G8 expands initiative to boost food security and nutrition in Africa

    • Hillary Clinton talks country ownership, US commitment to AIDS campaign

    • IDB agrees to fund health care program in Nicaragua

    • Argentina takes on chronic diseases with IDB support

    • A look at PEPFAR investments in Tanzania

    • Kenyan hospital receives US medical supplies donation

    • In Central Asia, end-of-life care for people with AIDS sorely lacking

    • US committed to help Nigeria meet disease control targets

    • 3 faith-based groups in Uganda receive US funding to fight HIV and AIDS

    • 4 leading rating agencies confirm AfDB stability with triple-A

    • AfDB supports flood prevention program in Senegal

    • IDB to webcast LAC microenterprise, SME development

    • Fitch affirms EIB’s triple-A rating

    • $2.1B IMF, World Bank debt relief for Guinea

    • IMF approves $520.6M for Bosnia and Herzegovina

    • ADB enables people of Solomon Islands gain access to low-cost ICT services

    • World Bank lends $300M to tackle Morocco youth unemployment problem

    • Simon Caney makes case for human rights-based approach to climate change fight

    • 3 lessons in fighting corruption in aid delivery

    • Questions on transparency and the private sector

    • Mitt Romney’s foreign aid plan: The good and missing

    • USAID, DfID to draw attention to approaching MDG deadline

    • Lucia Mvula: What’s preventing HIV prevention?

    • How politics affect global health funding

    • Paul Bonicelli: Mitt Romney ‘laid out one of the boldest and clearest reforms’ for US foreign assistance

    • Will world leaders rise to the challenge and include justice in post-2015 development goals?

    • Fighting global poverty with locally led strategies

    • With youth unemployment at a ‘crisis point’ in some countries, does education still pay?

    • El Salvador makes the grade in universal primary education

    • Working together to save mothers and children in Afghanistan

    • Have a Coke and some lifesaving medicine

    • Development theory vs practice: A look at Oxfam’s work in Mindanao

    • ‘I appreciate the very strong support which Sweden has long given to UNDP’

    • Development programs must engage informal justice systems, UN study says

    • UNCTAD asked to identify potential supply chains in sub-Saharan Africa

    • ‘No time to lose’ to advance peace and democracy in Somalia – Ban Ki-moon

    • Estonian president highlights role of ICTs in advancing development

    • From development issues to Security Council reform

    • Secretary-General discusses range of international issues in meetings with world leaders at UN

    • Kiribati’s president urges UN to step up climate change impact mitigation efforts

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    • Jenny Lei Ravelo

      Jenny Lei Ravelo@JennyLeiRavelo

      Jenny Lei Ravelo is a Devex Senior Reporter based in Manila. She covers global health, with a particular focus on the World Health Organization, and other development and humanitarian aid trends in Asia Pacific. Prior to Devex, she wrote for ABS-CBN, one of the largest broadcasting networks in the Philippines, and was a copy editor for various international scientific journals. She received her journalism degree from the University of Santo Tomas.

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