by Reality of Aid | Apr 13, 2022 | Agenda 2030, CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness, Development Effectiveness, RoA Asia Pacific, United Nations
Last March 28 to 31, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) held its annual Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development. The theme, “Building back better from COVID-19 while advancing the full implementation of the 2030...
by Reality of Aid | Mar 1, 2022 | Agenda 2030, CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness, Development Effectiveness, RoA Asia Pacific, United Nations
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown opportunities for strengthening multi-stakeholder partnerships, especially among development partners, as they mitigate the economic, environmental and social impacts for the most vulnerable. Pandemic response efforts have often left...
by Reality of Aid | Oct 1, 2021 | Agenda 2030, Development Effectiveness, Events and Meetings, RoA Asia Pacific, United Nations
Last September 30, the Reality of Aid-Asia Pacific (RoA-AP) was tasked to give a short intervention on behalf of the Asia Pacific Regional CSO Engagement Mechanism (APRCEM) in the Session on Sustainable Finance Recovery of the UNESCAP’s 5th Southeast Asia...
by Reality of Aid | Apr 15, 2021 | Agenda 2030, Development Cooperation, Development Effectiveness, Highlights, International Finance Institutions, News, News, ODA, OECD-DAC
The recently published preliminary ODA data of 2020 show that aid spending by DAC members totaled 161.2 billion USD which constitutes a 3.5% increase in real terms.[1] But while this increase is a welcome development, it is by all measures marginal compared to the...
by Reality of Aid | Apr 5, 2021 | Agenda 2030, Events and Meetings, News, RoA Asia Pacific
Delivered by Jahangir Hasan Masum | Chairperson of the Reality of Aid – Asia Pacific and Executive Director of the Coastal Development Partnership (CDP) in Bangladesh Dear colleagues, friends and participants, First of all, I would like to thank the Reality of...
by Reality of Aid | Mar 31, 2021 | Agenda 2030, Development Cooperation, Events and Meetings, News, RoA Asia Pacific, United Nations
Last March 23 to 26, the 8th Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD) was held virtually by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP). The forum serves to bring together representatives from multilateral...