PRESS RELEASE The global community is in a roll towards the much anticipated 4th High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF4) on November 29-December 1 in Busan, South Korea. In the forum, development actors are expected to highlight “achievements” of commitments made in the previous forums in Ghana (2008) and Paris (2005) while it is also anticipated that “new aid architecture” will be outlined. In the Philippines, a multi-stakeholders Technical Working Group (TWG) composed of

Twenty-five years after the Declaration on the Right to Development, making this right a reality for the world’s poor remains a huge challenge as developing countries and international development partners fall short in creating conditions to foster real development. This can be gleaned from a new report from the Reality of Aid Network titled “Democratic Ownership and Development Effectiveness: Civil Society Perspectives on Progress since Paris.” The report focuses on two critical areas in development

On the road to Busan, civil society organizations (CSOs) from 11 countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA) gathered together in Istanbul to draft a common vision on development effectiveness and an action plan to raise their voices at the HLF4. The regional workshop, organized by Reality of Aid, with support from BetterAid and in coordination with UNDP, was to facilitate the participation of CSOs in EECA in the aid effectiveness process, wherein the

Aid could make a real difference for people who need it most if promises are made and kept by development actors, reveals a new report from the Reality of Aid Network, based on evidence from 32 countries around the world. The report, titled “Democratic Ownership and Development Effectiveness: Civil Society Perspectives on Progress since Paris”, finds that at best only two of the 21 aid effectiveness targets have been achieved since 2005, and these have

Les Organisations de la Société Civile (OSC) béninoise, au terme de deux jours de consultation nationale et de dialogue avec les représentants du Gouvernement et des Partenaires Techniques et Financiers (PTF) sur le thème: «De l’efficacité de l’aide à l’efficacité du développement» à l’INFOSEC à Cotonou (Bénin) les 4 et 5 août 2011, déclarent : Constats et analyses Considérant les positions adoptées au sein de la plate-forme BetterAid et du Forum ouvert sur l’efficacité du

Reality of Aid Global Meeting 2011Theme: Aid and the Private Sector 26 November 2011, 2-6 pm Busan Global Civil Society Forum, Grand Hotel, Busan, South Korea 26 October 2011   The Reality of Aid Network (RoA) holds a Global Meeting and Workshop for RoA members once in its two-year Report cycle. Its purpose is to engage members to debate key issues for the theme of the upcoming global Report and to share national and regional experiences with other