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...
by Reality of Aid | Sep 26, 2023 | AIIB, Development Cooperation, Development Effectiveness, International Finance Institutions, RoA Asia Pacific
In time for the 8th Annual Meeting of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), Recourse, Inclusive Development International, and Accountability Counsel launched a research, Roadblocks to Accountability: Addressing the accessibility crisis in the Asian...
by Reality of Aid | Aug 9, 2023 | Agenda 2030, Development Cooperation, Development Effectiveness, RoA Asia Pacific, United Nations
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to development released a call for inputs on reinvigorating the right to development and the role of business in realizing the right to development in the context of the Agenda 2030 and human rights instruments. With...
by Reality of Aid | Jun 30, 2023 | Development Effectiveness, News, RoA Asia Pacific, Triple Nexus
For the past month, there has been increasing conflict and violence in Manipur state in Northeast India, with more than 130 dead, 60,000 displaced, and ongoing attacks on villages and refugee camps. The conflict between and among different ethnic communities in...
by Reality of Aid | 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...
by Reality of Aid | May 16, 2023 | ADB, Development Effectiveness, International Finance Institutions, RoA Asia Pacific
Last May 2 to 5 in Incheon, South Korea, the Asian Development Bank held their 56th Annual Meeting with the theme, “Rebounding Asia: Recover, Reconnect and Reform”. Attended by representatives from the bank, member country governments, multilateral institutions,...
