Development news roundup: US aid policy changes under Kerry, Sudan tightens NGO activity reviews and more

Today, we reported:

• US aid policy under John Kerry: Expect few changes

• Sudan tightens review of NGO activities

• Coming this month: A pledging conference for Syrians

• Aid groups evacuate Central African Republic as rebels advance

• Outcry over Australia’s diversion of aid funds

• Julian Fantino vs. Hélène Laverdière on CIDA

• Global summits do matter to povery fight

• Haiti’s post-quake reconstruction: What’s the progress?

Other must reads:

• Aid groups voice concern over UN-sanctioned offensive in Mali

• Denmark, AU discuss peace and security partnership

• Zambia thanks AfDB for facilitating additional financing

• AU, Japan explore cooperation promoting African political stability

• Following Uganda aid misuse, hiring of CFO at Irish Aid eyed

• JICA funds Tanzanian district’s water project

• A gift from Turkey to Somalis

• Japan offers grant to boost Ethiopia’s food security

• Burundi’s parliament OKs heavily foreign aid-funded 2013 budget

• North Darfur camp chief: WFP to conduct food ration card review

• MSF tells Kenya: Somali refugee relocation to Dadaab not a good idea

• Funding shortage puts WFP school feeding in Madagascar at risk

• IRC scales up aid efforts in eastern DRC

• Oxfam on a  mission to change portrayal of Africa

• GAVI withholds Sierra Leone in wake of fraud allegations

• Is the UN repackaging Haiti’s cholera aid? 

• Ian Birrell: ‘Disastrous relief for Haiti’

• Ian Birrell is ‘breathtakingly ill-informed ill-informed’ — Oxfam official

• Paul Farmer’s new role

• MSF urges new TB drug availability in high-risk countries

• World Vision Rwanda launches drive to curb infant mortality

• SKorea pledges aid to fight yellow fever outbreak in Sudan

• Japan grant finances Pakistan radio broadcasting, child health projects

• Oxfam builds cyclone shelters in Vanuatu

• Postwar rebuilding in Sri Lanka suffers from funding shortage

• In Afghanistan, concerns teem over inadequate winter aid

• Myanmar plans development cooperation forum in January

• US disappointed over deferral of decision on UN audit disclosure

• UNEP now the world’s ‘leading environmental authority’

• 2014-2024: Decade of Sustainable Energy for All 

• Donald Kaberuka: For Africa, some lessons from the global economic crisis

• UN’s 2012-2013 budget gets a hike

• ‘Needs are outstripping the means’

• UN’s action plan to help Cuba recover from ‘Sandy’

• IsDB executive directors endorse capital hike

• AfDB inks $704M loan deals with Morocco

• IDB helps Costa Rica cope with disasters

• IDB finances road network upgrade in Brazil’s Santa Catarina state

• IMF extends temporary interest waiver for poor countries

• IDB issues loan for renewable energy projects

• IDB in 2012: $11.5B for development projects

• In Zambia, Donald Kaberuka seeks feedbank on AfDB strategy

• Documentary film features AfDB energy projects

• IDB financing promotes environmental sanitation of Brazilian river

• World Bank hails Tanzania’s EITI compliance

• AfDB, Zambia formalize loan deal for hydropower project

• Switzerland taps World Bank to return illicitly acquired Kazakh assets

• ADB helps strengthen public finance management in Nepal

• Carl Muñana named chief of IDB private sector arm

• WFP’s agriculture and market access programs win US grant

• In Philippines, Peace Corps volunteer establishes disaster response training program

• US support for agriculture grew in 2012

• Abt Associates wins USAID contract for South Sudan health system strengthening

• Reporting corruption in USAID’s Pakistan projects just a phone call away 

• EU backs anti-water pollution project in Pakistan

• EU gives more for Ukraine’s energy reform and local development

• ECHO frees up more humanitarian funding for southern Africa

• Most Britons think foreign aid is being wasted

• Japan responds to ‘Evan’ disaster in Fiji

• More ‘Bopha’ aid from Canada

• ADB offers cyclone relief grant to Samoa

• SKorea sends more ‘Bopha’ aid to Philippines

• Japan sends aid to typhoon-hit Palau

• JICA hands over flood aid to Pakistan officials

• IOM delivers emergency supplies to Sri Lanka’s flood-afflicted districts

• Red Cross issues ‘Bopha’ aid appeal

• Malaysian NGO sends aid to ‘Bopha’ victims in Philippines

• Abducted German aid worker makes video appeal

• Search for Irish aid worker’s remains on again

• Iran looks to send humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Syria

• In Yemen, new partnership promotes animation for peace building

• Les Roopanarine: Local procurement ‘a no-brainer’

• From ‘aid’ to ‘global developmentn cooperation’

• How giving became cool

• Following IMF loan cut, AfDB withdraws budget support to DRC

• US fiscal cliff deal passes Congress sans foreign aid cut 

• At US House, a nod to foreign aid transparency bill

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