Developments news roundup: ADB, IDB strengthen partnership, new support for BRICS bank, and more

Today, we reported:

• ADB 2012 meeting wrapup: Asia, Latin America strengthen bond

• BRICS bank: All talk?

• Green economy a key sticking point in Rio+20 talks

• EBRD moves closer to engaging in North Africa, Middle East

• In Afghanistan, ex-USAID contractor goes to prison

Other must reads:

• UNDP’s 1st Africa Human Development Report to be launched May 15

• $14M more from EBRD for sewage network expansion in Subotica, Serbia

• US human rights chief Maria Otero discusses ‘J family’

• $10.6M Climate Investment Funds grant goes toward Caribbean geospatial analysis

• $12M AfDB loan Kalabo-Sikongo-Angola border road project signed

• Egyptian cabinet says Saudi Arabia to ‘start implementing’ aid for country in May

• Organization of Islamic Cooperation sets out to help Syrian refugees

• Doubts remain over Australia’s aid to South Pacific

• Akihiko Tanaka: JICA would increase aid to a peaceful Mindanao

• Alan Gross, jailed US aid worker in Cuba, interviewed by Wolf Blitzer

• EU proposes water-related sustainable development targets

• Arab League, Sudan ink $6M development aid deal

• Hillary Clinton urges Bangladesh: Don’t undermine Grameen

• Jens Anders Toyberg-Frandzen is UN peace-building envoy to Sierra Leone

• Global Health Alliance invites feedback to new strategic framework (sent to Devex via email)

• Gambian education minister Baboucarr Bouy nabs World Bank award

• USAID Health Confluence conference in India focused on Base Of Pyramid

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