As members of the Reality of Aid Network, which brings together Southern and Northern civil society groups spanning some 17 time zones, we are no strangers to the challenges of convening inclusive meetings about the need for more and better aid. The “lost connection” icon on trans-continental conference calls is a familiar, if frustrating, part of our lives, as it will be for many of you. But when it comes to convening meetings with the

The ambition of the SDGs, the broad scope of poverty across all developing countries, and growing inequality, demand concerted ‘game-changing’ measures to maximize the resources needed to realize Agenda 2030. Dramatic increases in targeted international concessional public finance to complement domestic finance will be essential if the barriers and conditions perpetuating poverty and inequality are to be overcome. In the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, ODA providers reaffirm their respective ODA commitments, including the commitment by

CONTENTS GLOBAL UPDATES SAVE THE DATE: Session on “Assessing IMF-WB’s Technical Cooperation for Achieving the 2030 Agenda” at the IMF   and World Bank Spring Meeting CSOs discuss improving CSO engagement and document disclosure with the OECD DAC Chair ASIA-PACIFIC RoA Asia-Pacific holds training on Istanbul Principles in Manila AFRICA Accelerating the Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals through Blended Financing in Africa: Positioning the Civil Society for Effective Monitoring and Accountability LATIN AMERICA AND THE

21 April 2017 | 2:00pm-3:00pm | Washington DC, USA Background Technical cooperation (TC) remains one of the most heavily used forms of aid, accounting for between a quarter and a half of ODA. Bilateral donors provide most of TC (although steadily declining), but multilateral organizations maintained stable funding for technical cooperation from 1.6 billion USD in 2000 to 2.2 billion USD in 2014 (in constant 2013 USD), which is equivalent to around 12% of total

CONTENTS GLOBAL UPDATES CSOs, governments, and think-tanks discuss technical cooperation and capacity development at HLM2 Side Event Reality of Aid launches 2016 Global Report on Technical Cooperation About the New RoA Chair: Leo Atakpu ASIA-PACIFIC Asia Regional Meeting: Towards Universalizing Effective Development Cooperation RoA AP conducts ADE Training in Nepal, Pakistan AFRICA African CSOs discuss EDC during the Pan-African CSO Conference towards the Second High-Level Meeting of the GPEDC RoA Africa hosts Nairobi Civil Society

As militarism grows in response to an increasingly unstable world and threatens instead to take the world into greater instability and war, the rights of the poor need to be championed in order to achieve peace and development. This is one of the key messages from the CSO Forum workshop entitled Aiding Militarism held in on 29 November 2016 at the Pride Inn Centre, Westlands in Nairobi, Kenya. The activity aimed to present the impacts