The Reality of Aid Project Foreword Part I – 50 yrs of Japan ODA PARC Position Paper Nagase Riei, PARC Inoue Reiko, PARC Takahashi Kiyotahe, Japan ODA Reform Network Nagase Riei, PARC Watanabe Tatsuya, JANIC Part II – Recipient Country Reports Sri Lanka Philippines Pakistan Nepal India Cambodia Bangladesh Part III – Towards Japan ODA Reform Statement (Make Japan ODA Worthy of Public Trust and Support) Review on Japanese ODA Needed Japan ODA Charter (revised)

The Reality of Aid Project   Acknowledgments Participating Agencies Part I: Introduction   Introduction Elin Enge, Chair, The Reality of Aid Political Overview Part II: Africa   Retracing the path to sustainability African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD), in collaboration with Uganda Debt Network, Zambia Association for Research and Development, Partnership – Cameroon, Tanzania Social and Economic Trust, Mozambique Debt Group, Zimbabwe Coalition Part III: Asia   Post-crash flows fail to ease the human toll Antonio

The Reality of Aid Project Acknowledgments Participating Agencies Part I: Introduction Introduction Elin Enge, Chair, The Reality of Aid Political Overview Part II: Africa Retracing the path to sustainability African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD), in collaboration with Uganda Debt Network, Zambia Association for Research and Development, Partnership – Cameroon, Tanzania Social and Economic Trust, Mozambique Debt Group, Zimbabwe Coalition Part III: Asia Post-crash flows fail to ease the human toll Antonio

The Reality of Aid Project Acknowledgments Participating Agencies Part I: Introduction Introduction Antonio Tujan Jr, IBON Political Overview Reality of Aid Network Part II: Africa Governance and promotion of human rights in international cooperation Opa Kapijimpanga, African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD) Re-thinking aid: Development cooperation in a multilateral crisis Edward Oyugi, African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD) The poverty reduction growth facility, poverty reduction strategies and development aid

The RoA Global Secretariat officially announced the new Chairperson of the Reality of Aid Network, Rev. Malcolm Damon, in January 2013. Rev. Damon is the Chair of RoA Africa and works with other civil society organisations on development effectiveness. He is the Executive Director of the Economic Justice Network (EJN) of the Fellowship of Christian Councils in Southern Africa (FOCCISA) based in Cape Town, South Africa. EJN works with 12 National Councils of Churches in

A leading international aid network’s latest biennial report reveals that the increasing role of the private sector in the global aid industry is doing little to benefit the poor – instead, it is the private sector businesses, aided by Northern governments, who reap profit from their involvement in aid. The Reality of Aid Network’s report, Aid and the Private Sector: Catalysing Poverty Reduction and Development?, is written by authors from civil society organisations worldwide whose