Increasing public resources are a key means for implementing the sustainable development goals (SDGs). In their absence, partnerships will be largely meaningless.  All aid-providers must be prepared to increase overall aid budgets to reverse recent reductions and flat lining. CSOs are encouraged by the work of the OECD Development Assistance Committee to clarify what counts as ODA.  The expectation is that DAC members will sharpen the definition of ODA as clearly concessional resource flows to

4 December 2014, 4.00 – 6.00 pm OECD Conference Centre, Auditorium Paris, France The Reality of Aid Network (RoA), the CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness (CPDE) in cooperation with the OECD Development Assistance Committee (OECD-DAC) are co-organizing a roundtable on “ODA and broader development finance in a post-2015 world”. The roundtable aims to provide an opportunity for CSOs from the South and the OECD-DAC to discuss key priorities in providing and measuring development finance in

Since the early1990s, the Reality of Aid (RoA) Network, a Southern-led North/South network on reforming aid policies and practices, publishes a major global report assessing development aid for poverty reduction with an emphasis on qualitative analysis of the national and multilateral aid regime. The Reality of Aid Reports analyse and advocate key messages relating to the performance of aid donors from a unique perspective of civil society in both donor and recipient countries. These Reports

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