ODA

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...

Asia Pacific donors should ramp up regional efforts in ODA

The 2023 Official Development Assistance (ODA) preliminary data reveal that numbers were majorly influenced by humanitarian aid, particularly aid to...

On the Preliminary 2022 ODA Figures: What is the real deal on REAL aid?

With the release of the Preliminary 2022 ODA Figures, the global community faces the reality that ODA continues to be...

Development Cooperation Report 2023: Unpacking debates, going beyond the pages

The release of the OECD-DAC’s (Development Assistance Committee) Development Cooperation Report 2023 (DCR 2023) posed vital debates on the aid...

Standing Strong in the Face of Crushing Global Challenges

Throughout the network’s 30-year existence, issues surrounding aid and development have evolved into a more chaotic web of complications, prompting...

Solidarity to the Afghan people’s continuing struggle against conflict and wars

The Reality of Aid Network statement on the recent developments in Afghanistan Download the Spanish translation here. Following the collapse...

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...

Do more, deliver better: An urgent call to address the multiple crises in the DRC

Statement of the Reality of Aid Network on the ongoing crises in the DRC The Reality of Aid Network expresses...

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,...