Development news roundup: What Obama’s re-election means for US foreign aid, Jim Yong Kim’s Haiti visit, and more

Today, we reported:

• What Obama’s re-election means for US foreign aid

• Jim Yong Kim’s ‘development-packed’ Haiti visit

• MCC impact evaluations: A model for USAID?

• Dozens dead in Guatemalan earthquake

• 2nd call: Proposals for AfDB microfinance fund

Other must reads:

• EBRD looks at transition challenges of southern, eastern Mediterranean countries

• Breakdown of EU aid package for focus sectors in Somalia

• UK to provide aid to Myanmar IDPs

• World Bank discusses future Niger development road map with stakeholders

• ADB Vice President Stephen Groff on challenges, opportunities in Pacific

• MCC releases annual scorecard

• Australia announces further aid for Rakhine state

• ADB to help mitigate Lower Mekong Basin droughts, floods

• Kenya urged to build on momentum of new constitution to address deforestation

• EBRD calls for expanding access to new eurozone banking union

• JICA sends emergency aid to Cuba

• USAID hosts economic skills training for youth in Nepal

• East African community radios trained to combat HIV and AIDS

• WFP appeals for $20M for post-hurricane response in Haiti

• Guinea secures AfDB debt relief

• South African countries weigh in on new AfDB human capital strategy

• Dirk Niebel regrets closure of the Office of the Heinrich Boell Foundation in Ethiopia

• IDB hosts seminar on Social Innovations for Human Capital Development

• IDB: More transparency means less corruption

• Argentinian province’s sustainable tourism program gets IDB boost

• UN Women doles out $8M in grants to fight violence against women

• Hillary Clinton, Rajiv Shah launch science and innovation partnership

• WHO reports yellow fever outbreak in Darfur, Sudan

• WFP head praises Lebanon’s efforts for Syrian refugees

• UNICEF and partners in a race to deliver clean drinking water in Lebanon

• $40.8M in ADB loans, grants to fund Laos urban development project

• How unfulfilled global pledges hurt fight against global hunger

• Is Syrian government seizing foreign aid?

• In light of NGO restrictions, cooperatives championed in Ethiopia

• US businesses still have lion’s share of UN dollars

• Thein Sein: Myanmar to halve poverty, hunger by 2015

• Developing countries exchange ISO 26000 experience at ISO workshop

• UN to Nigeria: Force foreign oil firms to clean up environment

• Vietnam eyes stronger economic ties with Uruguay

• Algeria to receive $74M in EU grants

• Jeffrey Sachs: UN intends to eradicate extreme poverty in Africa by 2030

• $100M IsDB loan to modernize 2 Uzbekistan hydropower plants

• ODI hosts forum on ‘development cooperation in tomorrow’s world’

• Pacific makes steady progress on child mortality despite poverty

• World Vision Australia: Developing nations need climate aid

• Irish aid official pledges to get to bottom of Uganda aid fraud case

• Study: Climate change impact on Africa, Asia crops could be worse than expected

• IRD reached 42 additional countries in 2011, annual report says

• How Plan International USA supports development efforts for the youth

• Ease of doing business is not the same as poverty alleviation

• What lessons can Sandy teach?

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