Despite its position as a large middle-income country, Indonesia continues to face significant development challenges, as a large number of Indonesians remain poor. There is a need as well as a challenge to translate the existing resources into better development outcomes. As a South-South Cooperation provider, the country also has a strong contribution to make to efforts aimed at improving the international aid architecture for all recipients including both low-income countries and MICs. This would

Rights-based and people-centered sustainable development financing was the primary message of civil society groups during the Asia Pacific Outreach Meeting on Sustainable Development Financing held last June 10-11 in Jakarta. The meeting will feed into the on-going efforts of the UN Intergovernmental Committee of Experts on Sustainable Development Financing (ICESDF), established by the UN General Assembly, in follow-up to Rio+20. The Committee is to prepare a report proposing options on an effective Sustainable Development Financing

CSO Taipei Consensus Taipei, Taiwan, 13-14 December 2013   We the participants of the Northeast Asia CSO Consultation on CPDE held in Taipei on 13-14 December 2013;  recognizing and noting the significance of the second sub-regional meeting with four national CSO platforms from Japan, Mongolia, South Korea and Taiwan; hoping that our platform will be further strengthened in the future to include CSOs with full support from all Northeast Asian governments; expressing our deep gratitude

The Reality of Aid Network will be holding its Global Meeting within the European Development Days (EDD) event. All Reality of Aid members who have registered in the European Development Days are invited to attend the Global Meeting on November 27, 2013, from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM in Room 9 at the Tour & Taxis building. RoA Member Organizations based in Brussels may also opt for on-site registration with EDD at the venue from 8:30

Reality of Aid Network – Asia Pacific 21 November 2013 Media Release A few weeks after super typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) wreaked havoc in the Visayas in central Philippines, afflicting some 10 million people across 36 provinces and is feared to have claimed more than 10,000 lives, multilateral development institutions such as the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the World Bank extended financial assistance mostly in the form of loans for relief operations in areas hit

 Le rapport thématique de Reality of Aid 2014: Les partenariats et l’après OMD [ Télécharger ici: Français | Anglais ] I. Contexte – Nouvelles sources de financement pour l’atteinte des OMD 1. L’aide publique au développement (APD) joue un rôle primordial dans les efforts qui visent l’atteinte des Objectifs du millénaire pour le développement (OMD). Il est clair que de nombreux indicateurs d’atteinte des OMD ont été atteints à l’extérieur du cadre de travail de la