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Reality of Aid – Asia Pacific and CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness convene CSOs amid worsening civic spaces and multiple economic crises

The Reality of Aid – Asia Pacific (RoA-AP) and CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness (CPDE) – Asia held their Regional...

RoA-AP & CPDE Asia Regional Meeting & Workshop 2025

Building on previous and existing efforts to distill and discuss locally-led development and development effectiveness in international cooperation, RoA-AP and...

On USAID shutdown: RoA-AP calls on US government to honor right to development

In an effort to curb overseas spending and dwell on economic protectionism, the once again elected United States (US) President...

CSO assessment of ADB’s second revised ESF draft

We would like to extend our gratitude to the Coalition for Human Rights in Development, FORUM-Asia, and Fair Finance Asia...

The Future of Aid: Recounts from the Reality of Aid Report 2023

Decades of politicization largely influenced and inarguably shaped how Official Development Assistance (ODA), or more popularly known as “aid”, is...

As Bangladesh faces crises anew, long-standing repression and maldevelopment resurface

The past two weeks saw blood spilled along streets of Dhaka as Bangladeshi students and youth peacefully protested against the...

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...

The Reality of Aid Network launches a special edition of its flagship RoA Report, looking back at the 30-year history of the network and of devcoop

On its 30th anniversary, The Reality of Aid Network (RoA) publishes its Reality of Aid Report 2023, marking 30 years...

Privatization is ADB’s not-so-surprising bridge to the future

The Asian Development Bank’s 57th Annual Governor’s Meeting was held against the backdrop of protests in this year’s host country,...

Reaching the furthest behind: Civil society and key stakeholders convened to assess approaches on localization

At the sidelines of the recently held 11th Asia Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD), the Asia Pacific Regional CSO...

ADB’s Draft Environmental and Social Framework: CSO Critique

The Reality of Aid-Asia Pacific initiates a sign-on campaign that forwards a CSO critique on ADB’s Draft Environmental and Social...