Reality of Aid

Reality of Aid Report 2020/2021

With the theme of aid in the context of conflict, fragility and the climate emergency, The 2020/2021 Reality of Aid Report aims to contribute to the overall body of work on the subject. The Triple Nexus tackles how humanitarian action, development and peace efforts intersect to improve development interventions, especially in conflict affected and fragile states.

On South-South Cooperation: Assessing its political relevance and envisioning a future beyond technical cooperation

South-South Cooperation (SSC) has been regaining traction in recent years due to setbacks in North-South Cooperation. Development partnerships among Southern states aim to be complementary to traditional cooperation and is rooted on horizontality, solidarity, and respect for national sovereignty and ownership. SSC offers itself as a modality that attempts to shift away from ineffective development cooperation practices. One of its core principles, which came from the Bandung Era, is to forward the decolonization agenda. With this, SSC has the potential to leverage a kind of development cooperation that is linked with peoples’ demands, values, and lived realities. Despite SSC’s potential […]

When Aid Colonizes, Displaces, and Kills: Statement of Reality of Aid-Asia Pacific on Palestine

After decades of aggression between Israeli occupation forces and the Palestinian people, the past weeks witnessed relentless attacks on civilians and wide-scale human rights violations. Driven by their right to self-determination, Palestinian armed resistance forces have long fought for their independence and rights over their land. Israel’s response remains violent, launching bombs, air strikes and dangerous chemicals on its occupied territories, detaining civilians, cutting off access to water, power, food and medical supplies, forcing millions of Palestinians to leave their homes, and blocking humanitarian assistance. The attacks have resulted in deaths of thousands of civilians and a humanitarian crisis for […]

Civil Society Demands the World Bank Group to Rethink the Direction of its Evolution

The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group (IMF-WBG) are gearing to reform themselves as a response to heightening crises of our generation. At the Annual Meetings last 9 to 15 October, the institutions brought together states, multilateral institutions, IFIs, and civil society to discuss critical matters on delivering impact in the context of a world experiencing a polycrisis. With the theme, “Global Action, Global Impact”, the IMF-WBG seeks to continue its work in many arenas of development. One of the prominent discussions in the Annual Meetings is the WBG’s Evolution Roadmap. As a response to the widening cracks […]

Nowhere in the Middle: APRCEM NGO Constituency on the outcomes of the SDG Summit

At the midpoint of the Agenda 2030, only 15% of the targets are on track. In the Asia-Pacific, this translates to compounded impacts of the pandemic on health and economic systems, debt burden on the poorest, worsening conflict, deterioration of social protection systems, violation of basic human rights, and incapacity to address the climate crisis. Recognizing that the world is nowhere near in achieving its sustainable development targets, the SDG Summit is convened by the United Nations (UN) to accelerate action towards the goals with solutions outlined in Our Common Agenda. However, civil society has noted that these frameworks continue […]

Persisting Challenges in a Worsening World?: Reality of Aid-Asia Pacific’s insights on the 8th AIIB Annual Meeting

Last September 25 to 26, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) held its eighth annual meeting at Sharm El-Sheik, Egypt. With the theme, “Sustainable Growth in a Challenging World”, the bank stressed on the role of multilateralism in order to address the interconnected economic, political and developmental challenges the world faces today. Discussions were organized along three thematic streams: sustainability, connectivity, and multilateral cooperation, highlighting the role of the bank to mobilize financing for infrastructure solutions to development and climate crises. In trying to adequately address the crises the world faces today, the international financial architecture is being reformed to […]

At the IMF-WBG Annual Meetings, powerful states and private sector win while the people continues to grapple with multiple crises

From October 9 to 15, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group (IMF-WBG) held its Annual Meetings in Marrakech, Morocco. With the theme, “Global Action, Global Impact”, the events aimed to bring together Bank and Fund officials, states, other multilateral development bank (MDB) representatives, CSOs, and the private sector to discuss matters critical to advancing development finance, policies, and other bank processes. Throughout the Meetings, discussions on private finance, climate, the World Bank Group’s Evolution Roadmap, and knowledge-sharing were prominent as the institutions are attempting to chart new paths toward development. Despite trying to push for innovative endeavors, […]

“How do we respond to the changing aid landscape?”: The Reality of Aid debates on the future of aid

In a world afflicted by multifaceted and overwhelming global challenges, civil society organizations working on aid and development cooperation continue to grapple with the question, “ How can we effectively respond to the changing aid landscape?”

Aid Observatorio

Welcome to the Aid Observatorio What is the CSO Aid Observatorio? The Aid Observatorio is a CSO-initiated and maintained database of development projects funded through the Official Development Assistance (ODA) or funded by International Finance Institutions (IFIs). It offers on ground narratives and evidence-based analysis of development projects in fragile nations and developing countries. The impacts of the projects are monitored and evaluated in terms of Development Effectiveness Principles and of the following areas: human […]

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CSOs to launch a report on private sector engagement and development effectiveness

Following severe global crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the climate emergency, wars and conflicts, and inflation, the world is now further off-track from attaining the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The private sector has been held up as a ‘silver...

On South-South Cooperation: Assessing its political relevance and envisioning a future beyond technical cooperation

South-South Cooperation (SSC) has been regaining traction in recent years. Due to setbacks in North-South Cooperation, calls for new development efforts are increasing. Development partnerships among Southern states aim to be complementary to traditional cooperation...

When Aid Colonizes, Displaces, and Kills: Statement of Reality of Aid-Asia Pacific on Palestine

Civil Society Demands the World Bank Group to Rethink the Direction of its Evolution

At the IMF-WBG Annual Meetings, powerful states and private sector win while the people continues to grapple with multiple crises

From the frontlines to the center: Southeast Asia’s climate emergency and the imperative to decolonize climate finance

This article was originally published in südostasien, a German magazine focused on amplifying voices on and from Southeast Asia on economic, political, and cultural issues. Read the piece in German here. by Tala Batangan, Reality of Aid-Asia Pacific The urban poor,...

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CSOs to launch a report on private sector engagement and development effectiveness

On South-South Cooperation: Assessing its political relevance and envisioning a future beyond technical cooperation

When Aid Colonizes, Displaces, and Kills: Statement of Reality of Aid-Asia Pacific on Palestine

Civil Society Demands the World Bank Group to Rethink the Direction of its Evolution

At the IMF-WBG Annual Meetings, powerful states and private sector win while the people continues to grapple with multiple crises

From the frontlines to the center: Southeast Asia’s climate emergency and the imperative to decolonize climate finance

CSOs to launch a report on private sector engagement and development effectiveness

On South-South Cooperation: Assessing its political relevance and envisioning a future beyond technical cooperation

When Aid Colonizes, Displaces, and Kills: Statement of Reality of Aid-Asia Pacific on Palestine

The Paris Declaration: Towards Enhanced Aid Effectiveness?

Aid for Agriculture and Rural Development

Financing Climate Change Mitigation, Adaptation and Sustainable Development

Civil Society and Development Effectiveness: Another View

Climate Funds and Development

The State of Agriculture in Africa

Examining Development Policy: Coherence for Whom?

PPP: Private Gains, Public Costs

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