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 | Dec 18, 2023 | Development Cooperation, Development Effectiveness, Development Finance, RoA Asia Pacific
The ongoing violent occupation of Israeli forces in Palestine has exposed the talons of militarization of aid in Asia Pacific and most especially, of US interventionist strategies. With Israel receiving a total of USD 3.8 billion worth of financial assistance from the...
by Reality of Aid | Dec 8, 2023 | CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness, Development Cooperation, Development Effectiveness, Private Sector, RoA Global
Today’s development landscape heavily favours the private sector, oftentimes at the the expense of people and the environment. Amid this state of development finance, the CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness (CPDE) and The Reality of Aid Network (RoA) sought...
by Reality of Aid | Oct 24, 2023 | Development Cooperation, Development Effectiveness, Development Finance, RoA Asia Pacific, Statements
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...
by Reality of Aid | Oct 3, 2023 | Development Effectiveness, International Finance Institutions, RoA Asia Pacific
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,...
by Reality of Aid | Sep 27, 2023 | Agenda 2030, Development Cooperation, Development Effectiveness, Development Finance, RoA Asia Pacific, United Nations
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...
