The Reality of Aid Network – Asia Pacific is calling for contributions from civil society organizations for the 2015 issue of Reality Check with the theme ADB as a regional development institution. Deadline for submissions is on April 15, 2015. For queries and submissions, you may email the secretariat at [email protected] and/or [email protected].

This training course on CSO Aid Observatorio is part of the project of the Reality of Aid Network – Asia Pacific (RoA-AP) to strengthen the capacities of CSOs to monitor aid and to promote CSO partnerships and cohesiveness of aid monitoring work towards evidence-based policy engagement on aid and development and effectiveness in other countries. it is developed to equip various CSOs from different countries in the region with necessary skills in setting-up and sustaining

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