Agenda 2030

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...

Reaching the furthest behind: Civil society and key stakeholders convened to assess approaches on localization

At the sidelines of the recently held 11th Asia Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD), the Asia Pacific Regional CSO...

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...

On the right to development: Reality of Aid-Asia Pacific’s inputs to the UN Special Rapporteur

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to development released a call for inputs on reinvigorating the right to...

Decades behind in achieving Agenda 2030, five missed key takeaways from the 10th APFSD

In order to move forward with Agenda 2030, the current approach to development that promotes profit over positive development outcomes,...

At the sidelines of the 10th APFSD, development actors tackled the role of the localization agenda in shifting the power

PRESS RELEASE April 3, 2023 Last March 29, “Fit for Purpose?: Forwarding the localization agenda to address the conflict and...

At the sidelines of the 10th APFSD, Asia-Pacific CSOs will tackle the relevance of the localization agenda

PRESS RELEASE 16 March 2023 This coming March 27 to 30, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia...

Reality of Aid – Asia Pacific launches fresh data on the CSO Aid Observatorio platform

As Asia-Pacific struggles to cope with COVID-19, a global recession, and existing development challenges, it is imperative that aid must...

The Aid Smokescreen: How development is weaponized by the world’s most powerful actors

With the recent visit of US Vice President Kamala Harris in the Philippines, the G20 Summit in Indonesia, and the...

Asia-Pacific CSOs gather to discuss enabling environment, fostering trust, Triple Nexus

In preparation for the 2022 Effective Development Cooperation Summit in Geneva, Switzerland in December, civil society organizations (CSOs) from across...

Beyond UN’s Build Back Better: Three things the APFSD did not tackle

Last March 28 to 31, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) held its...

Building Back Better, Together: How can SDG 17 and civil society partnerships ensure genuine development in recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic?

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown opportunities for strengthening multi-stakeholder partnerships, especially among development partners, as they mitigate the economic, environmental...