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    Development news roundup: World meets MDG on safe drinking water, Malawi president lashes out at donors, and more

    By Devex Editor // 06 March 2012

    Today, we reported:

    • MDG on safe drinking water? Check!

    • Malawi president to supporters: ‘Defend your father’

    • ‘Forgotten crisis’ in Central Africa receives $78M

    • Piebalgs to bring $132M aid pledge to Haiti

    • New AfDB grant to boost regional agriculture research, development initiative

    • Now available: FAO guidelines for bioenergy development

    • World Bank estimates cost of climate-proofing Bangladesh’s infrastructure

    • UN headquarters set to have better security features

    • MSF gives birth to new hospital in Khost, Afghanistan

    • Expert weighs in on ongoing women’s empowerment efforts

    Other must reads:

    • Valerie Amos secures permission to enter Syria

    • OECD to launch gender data browser on International Women’s Day

    • UN begins work on new disaster risk-reduction blueprint, says 2011 disasters caused $380B in economic losses

    • UNESCO publishes atlas highlighting differences between girls’ and boys’ education

    • IDB, Spanish General Trust Fund call on researchers to send agricultural financing proposals

    • Hillary Clinton to award International Women of Courage honorees on March 8

    • IDB annual meeting to discuss climate change, South-South cooperation

    • Bangladesh to repay $9.8M ADB soft loan after highway expansion project fails

    • Norway to provide $9.9M for mHealth Alliance’s maternal and newborn health programs

    • Humanitarian agencies in Arab, Muslim nations say tap Syrian civil society, private sector to deliver food, medical aid

    • Survey says 80 percent of Dutch voters want development aid cuts

    • USAID to assist Philippine food producers

    • Nigerian state may lose donor funding if HIV/AIDS committee not changed to agency by month’s end

    • USAID to provide economic aid to Philippines’ 3 ‘key growth areas’

    • US prepares emergency aid for victims of Congo blasts

    • John Baird will be first Canadian foreign minister to visit Myanmar

    • Ban Ki-moon says humanitarian situation in Somalia likely to deteriorate in coming months

    • IKEA campaign raised $16M for UNICEF, Save the Children in 2011

    • Sightsavers research says blinding disease may already have been eliminated in one Nigerian state

    • Bill Easterly: Don’t pick me to head the World Bank

    • Save the Children: Twebevent + #hiddencrisis = 5M people talking about child malnutrition

    • Melissa Leach: Politics has no place in sustainable development

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