When Aid Colonizes, Displaces, and Kills: Statement of Reality of Aid-Asia Pacific on Palestine

When Aid Colonizes, Displaces, and Kills: Statement of Reality of Aid-Asia Pacific on Palestine

by | 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...
At the IMF-WBG Annual Meetings, powerful states and private sector win while the people continues to grapple with multiple crises

At the IMF-WBG Annual Meetings, powerful states and private sector win while the people continues to grapple with multiple crises

by | Oct 18, 2023 | Development Finance, IMF-World Bank, International Finance Institutions, RoA Global

From October 9 to 15, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group (IMF-WBG) held its Annual Meetings in Marrakech, Morocco. With the theme, “Global Action, Global Impact”, the events aimed to bring together Bank and Fund officials, states, other...
Nowhere in the Middle: APRCEM NGO Constituency on the outcomes of the SDG Summit

Nowhere in the Middle: APRCEM NGO Constituency on the outcomes of the SDG Summit

by | 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...
“How do we respond to the changing aid landscape?”: The Reality of Aid debates on the future of aid

“How do we respond to the changing aid landscape?”: The Reality of Aid debates on the future of aid

by | Jul 17, 2023 | Development Cooperation, Development Effectiveness, Development Finance, Events and Meetings, News, Reality Check, RoA Global, South-South Cooperation

In a world afflicted by multifaceted and overwhelming global challenges, civil society organizations working on aid and development cooperation continue to grapple with the question, “ How can we effectively respond to the changing aid landscape?” This is the...
Triple Nexus – Reality of Aid – Asia Pacific’s take and articulation: A Primer for Development-oriented CSOs

Triple Nexus – Reality of Aid – Asia Pacific’s take and articulation: A Primer for Development-oriented CSOs

by | May 30, 2023 | Development Cooperation, Development Effectiveness, Development Finance, RoA Asia Pacific, Triple Nexus

The Russia-Ukraine conflict resulted in billions of ODA being realigned or redirected to the Ukrainian government, civil society and other humanitarian actors in the country. While financing is necessary to reconstruct Ukraine and support its citizens, beyond its...