CONTENTS Global Updates Reality of Aid Network holds Strategic Planning Workshop for 2016-2020 Reality of Aid holds Workshop on Measuring Effective SSDC, releases new publication Asia-Pacific AP CSOs call for CSO Enabling Environment in Regional Forums on Sustainable Development CSOs demand accountability, lament tokenistic space in the FfD regional dialogue ROA AP joins Workshop on Planning and Budgeting for Results: Leveraging Resources to Deliver Impact Africa Updates on CSO Participation in the Second Monitoring Round

Side Event in the UN DCF High level Meeting in July 2016 Background South-South cooperation (SSC) continued to grow despite the slowing down of the emerging economies and dropping commodity prices. The 2016 Report of the Secretary-General on “Trends and Progress in International Development Cooperation” points to the boost in momentum of SSC with the adoption of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, 2030 Agenda, and the Paris Agreement. There has been growing diversification of financing

The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP) held the First High-Level Follow-up Dialogue on Financing for Development in Asia Pacific on March 30-31, 2016 in Incheon, South Korea. More than a hundred participants attended the event, including nine (9) representatives from civil society organizations. The event was organized to provide different development actors a venue to review the Addis Ababa Action Agenda (AAAA) commitments and discuss strategies for

GUIDANCE NOTE FOR THE 2016 REALITY OF AID REPORTTechnical Cooperation and Capacity Development as an Aid Modality  The 2016 Reality of Aid (RoA) Report, to be launched in November 2016, will focus on the theme “Technical Cooperation and Capacity Development as an Aid Modality” (see the attached thematic statement). This guidance note is for authors of the chapters for this Report. Technical cooperation remains one of the most heavily used forms of aid, accounting for

Análisis y una aproximación crítica: Considerando los desafíos de América Latina y el Caribe   ÍNDICE I. Presentación del informe II. Introducción III. Cómo se mide y deciden actualmente las contribuciones de la ayuda internacional al desarrollo (AOD) IV. El impacto en los países de renta media V. El impacto en América Latina VI. Principales críticas a la metodología y el proceso de toma de decisiones para brindar ayuda internacional VII. Argumentaciones a favor y en

A. Background what is technical cooperation?[1] 1. Technical cooperation has a long history in development aid, and therefore continues to play an important role. It is still one of the most heavily used forms of aid, accounting for between a quarter and a half of all ODA. 2. But over these years there has been some confusion in the use of terminology, shifting from technical assistance to technical cooperation. In the 1990s, the World Bank