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CSO assessment of ADB’s second revised ESF draft
We would like to extend our gratitude to the Coalition for Human Rights in Development, FORUM-Asia, and Fair Finance Asia for their valuable inputs to this article. Context After four long years, the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Environmental and Social Framework...
The Future of Aid: Recounts from the Reality of Aid Report 2023
Decades of politicization largely influenced and inarguably shaped how Official Development Assistance (ODA), or more popularly known as “aid”, is delivered to and received by the Global South. This briefer lifts and synthesizes accounts from the recently published...
As Bangladesh faces crises anew, long-standing repression and maldevelopment resurface
The past two weeks saw blood spilled along streets of Dhaka as Bangladeshi students and youth peacefully protested against the quota system for government jobs, only to be greeted with open fire from police forces in return. This government-imposed brutality led to a...
Heads or tails? Tossing aid between conflict and development
The intensifying global conflicts compel Asia Pacific countries to gear up their security forces. Existing instability and fragility in various contexts are further polarizing social and economic inequalities, as well as aggravating maldevelopment across...
Asia Pacific donors should ramp up regional efforts in ODA
The 2023 Official Development Assistance (ODA) preliminary data reveal that numbers were majorly influenced by humanitarian aid, particularly aid to Ukraine. Civil society highlights how members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development -...
The Reality of Aid Network launches a special edition of its flagship RoA Report, looking back at the 30-year history of the network and of devcoop
On its 30th anniversary, The Reality of Aid Network (RoA) publishes its Reality of Aid Report 2023, marking 30 years of reporting back on aid and development and encapsulating key shifts in the global aid landscape. Thirty years have elapsed and yet the Global North...
CSO assessment of ADB’s second revised ESF draft
We would like to extend our gratitude to the Coalition for Human Rights in Development, FORUM-Asia, and Fair Finance Asia for their valuable inputs to this article. Context After four long years, the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Environmental and Social Framework...
The Future of Aid: Recounts from the Reality of Aid Report 2023
Decades of politicization largely influenced and inarguably shaped how Official Development Assistance (ODA), or more popularly known as “aid”, is delivered to and received by the Global South. This briefer lifts and synthesizes accounts from the recently published...
As Bangladesh faces crises anew, long-standing repression and maldevelopment resurface
The past two weeks saw blood spilled along streets of Dhaka as Bangladeshi students and youth peacefully protested against the quota system for government jobs, only to be greeted with open fire from police forces in return. This government-imposed brutality led to a...
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