by Reality of Aid | Mar 3, 2025 | Development Effectiveness, Regional Meeting
The Reality of Aid – Asia Pacific (RoA-AP) and CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness (CPDE) – Asia held their Regional Meeting and Workshop (RMW) 2025 last February 19 to 21 in Bangkok, Thailand. The three-day event convened RoA-AP and CPDE Asia...
by Reality of Aid | Feb 11, 2025 | Events and Meetings
Building on previous and existing efforts to distill and discuss locally-led development and development effectiveness in international cooperation, RoA-AP and CPDE Asia will hold its regular Regional Meeting & Workshop (RMW) from February 19-21, 2025 in Bangkok,...
by Reality of Aid | Feb 10, 2025 | Statements
In an effort to curb overseas spending and dwell on economic protectionism, the once again elected United States (US) President Donald Trump is attempting to shut down the US Agency for International Development (USAID), an institution that delivers and funds...
by Reality of Aid | Dec 3, 2024 | ADB, Development Effectiveness
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...
by Reality of Aid | Oct 24, 2024 | Uncategorized
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...