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

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 the Asia-Pacific gathered for a two-day conference to discuss the state of enabling environment for CSOs in the...
Reality of Aid – Asia Pacific launches fresh data on the CSO Aid Observatorio platform

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 be used effectively and efficiently. Initiatives for monitoring and analyzing the quantity and quality of aid in the region must be...
The World Bank’s Development Policy Financing – Implications for a just, green and feminist recovery

The World Bank’s Development Policy Financing – Implications for a just, green and feminist recovery

Development Policy Financing is a lending instrument that supports targeted policy reforms and provides finance directly to a borrowing country’s general budget. DPF nudges countries towards neoliberal, financialisation reforms by conditioning budget support on the...