Development Cooperation

Reality of Aid – Asia Pacific launches the global Reality of Aid Report 2020/2021 in the region

For the past year, the Asia Pacific region witnessed its vulnerability to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, conflict and...

On the 2020 ODA Data: Extraordinary times, underwhelming response

The recently published preliminary ODA data of 2020 show that aid spending by DAC members totaled 161.2 billion USD which...

Who is afraid of the NGOs?

By Kristina Lanz, Alliance Sud Rarely has a popular initiative caused the kind of furore triggered by the Responsible Business...

Risks Abound, Issues Unaddressed in Global COVID Response and Recovery

Although the report acknowledges the USD 1 trillion funding gap developing countries are facing to properly respond to the pandemic,...

On Drastic Cuts to British Aid: Why less, when the world’s poor needs more?

On November 5th 2020, the British government announced that it would spend only 0.5% of its Gross National Income (GNI)...

RoA-AP Speech for the ASEAN Peoples’ Forum 2020: Convergence Space on Human Rights and Access to Justice

On Economic Repression and Militarism Delivered by Sarah Torres, Coordinator of Reality of Aid – Asia Pacific The repression and...

What’s Next?: Delving into ADB’s policy on today’s health and economic crisis

Several developing countries in Asia Pacific continue to struggle against Coronavirus despite the wealth of information and best practices from...

Cancelling Debt in Asia Pacific: Tackling the COVID-19 Health and Economic Crisis

   Developing countries in Asia Pacific are trapped in the vicious cycle of debt. To say that the region...

We are left behind – APFSD tackles accelerating progress on Agenda 2030 amid regressing development gains, fighting COVID-19

In the 7th Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD) held virtually last May 20, the United Nations Economic and Social...

On the 2019 ODA data: Donors must meet both aid quantity and quality amid the Covid-19 pandemic

Statement of the RoA International Coordinating Committee | 23 April 2020 (Download Statement with Spanish version) The recently published preliminary...