Development news roundup: Working group meets to jumpstart new development partnership, Sudan OKs UN aid operation, and more

Today, we reported:

• Aid effectiveness working group meets to jumpstart new development partnership

• Sudan OKs UN aid operation in 2 states

• UN, NGOs revise appeal for Syrian refugees

• UN staff members detained in Rakhine

• Yemen needs fewer drones, more aid

• Summit strengthens EU, Mexico partnership

• What awaits Jim Yong Kim?

• Struggles of women ‘not fiction’

Other must reads:

• 100 families hit in Afghan province flashflood

• US, Latvia renew Fulbright exchange program deal

• US State Department decries journalist’s conviction in Ethiopia

• US reaffirms commitment to Caribbean’s economic development

• Ban Ki-moon calls for peaceful settlement of Paraguay political conflict

• Costa Rica’s energy sector development scheme secures $250M from IDB

• IDB’s $200M to help build, improve roads in Argentina

• John Tedstrom to step down as GBCHealth president, CEO

• Koica to launch new rural development projects across Africa

• BMZ fund to boost Asia’s microfinance sector

• World Bank review shows improved policy environment in some African countries

• 17 US-based entrepreneurs receive USAID, Western Union grants

• Mission Iraq did not fully meet mission criteria — GAO

• Australia to double aid to Fiji in 2013

• India expresses interest in investing in Afghanistan

• In Haiti, infrastructure still a problem

• The Rockefeller Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award goes to India’s Tata Son’s chairman

• $40M IDB loan to benefit SMEs in Costa Rica

• US nominates William Lacy Swing to IOM post

• Catherine Ashton calls on Belarus government to stop ‘all acts of harassment’ against civil society, media

• Joint Vienna Institute marks 20th anniversary with high-level conference July 12-13

• Human rights, governance highlight Canadian minister of state’s visit in Congo, East Timor and France

• Canada pledges $8M to combat terrorism

• Sweden agrees to upgrade Palestinian representation to embassy level

• Ban Ki-moon: ‘Rio+20 was a success’

• Police reform, cybersecurity key to combating transnational threat

• Security tops Latvian foreign minister and Hillary Clinton’s discussions

• EIB renewed support for Turkey covers SMEs, climate change

• World Bank approves $60M for bridge, road construction in Nepal

• US reaffirms support for Afghanistan post-2014

• Irish Aid lauds Malawi’s agro-forestry center

• Save the Children rolls out school-on-wheels in India

• Zimbabwe PM appeals to donors: Speed up Zambezi Matabeleland water scheme

• New Egyptian prime minister plans to push through with $3.2B IMF loan

• GIZ, WACSI help Ghana CSOs explore new ways to build capacity development

• JICA to co-finance bridge connecting two Philippine provinces

• In northern Nigeria, sporadic shortages of food aid

• Malta environment minister: Rio+20 is step in right direction

• CIDA, PWRDF partners for health project targeting pregnant women in South Africa

• AfDB asks: ‘Does Evaluation Matter for Development Results?’

• Dirk Niebel, German development minister, highlights importance of raw materials

• EU funding 5 new projects worth $4.3M in Cambodia

• Australia highlights development work in Afghanistan

• Smart energy program in Barbados to receive $17M IDB loan

• Green growth to top agenda at 3rd Asian Development Forum July 4-5

• ‘Ecofacts’ lands 1st place in World Bank’s Apps for Climate competition

• $700M World Bank loan to reduce social inequity in Bahia, Brazil

• Mekong River Commission secures $8.5M from Sweden

• International Islamic Trade Finance Corp. lends $1B to Egypt

• How has political stalemate affected humanitarian situation in Nepal?

• Aid groups, government rush to aid flood-hit Bangladesh regions

• UK invests $26.6M in Nepal’s disaster preparedness plans

• AIDS 2012 side events to highlight community’s role in global response to HIV

• AusAID launches $8M health program to fight tuberculosis in Papua New Guinea

• EU leaders pressed to keep aid target commitments

• Zambia’s education sector to get $102M from USAID through 2017

• Thomas Kostigen: Social investors win at Rio+20

• Jonathan Glennie: ‘Brazil exports success’

• World leaders need a ‘cavalry’ to set up the SDGs — Jamie Drummond

• Skills-based volunteering is ‘life changing’

• Is ‘trade facilitation reform’ good for developing countries?

• Economist says: Don’t just create jobs, but quality employment

• Drug trafficking: An ‘urgent development issue’

• Is food sovereignty key to solving food crises?

• World’s success depends on investments in agriculture. Ask Abraham Lincoln.

• There’s hope for reproductive health at family planning summit — Robert Walker, Population Institute president

• Simon Rogers picks key points in UK’s open data white paper

• How to make microinsurance work for farmers?

• World Bank Institute Vice President Sanjay Pradhan: The World Bank is ‘embracing new directions’

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