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When Aid Colonizes, Displaces, and Kills: Statement of Reality of Aid-Asia Pacific on Palestine
After decades of aggression between Israeli occupation forces and the Palestinian people, the past weeks witnessed relentless attacks on civilians and wide-scale human rights violations. Driven by their right to self-determination, Palestinian armed resistance forces...
Civil Society Demands the World Bank Group to Rethink the Direction of its Evolution
The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group (IMF-WBG) are gearing to reform themselves as a response to heightening crises of our generation. At the Annual Meetings last 9 to 15 October, the institutions brought together states, multilateral institutions,...
At the IMF-WBG Annual Meetings, powerful states and private sector win while the people continues to grapple with multiple crises
From October 9 to 15, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group (IMF-WBG) held its Annual Meetings in Marrakech, Morocco. With the theme, “Global Action, Global Impact”, the events aimed to bring together Bank and Fund officials, states, other...
From the frontlines to the center: Southeast Asia’s climate emergency and the imperative to decolonize climate finance
This article was originally published in südostasien, a German magazine focused on amplifying voices on and from Southeast Asia on economic, political, and cultural issues. Read the piece in German here. by Tala Batangan, Reality of Aid-Asia Pacific The urban poor,...
Persisting Challenges in a Worsening World?: Reality of Aid-Asia Pacific’s insights on the 8th AIIB Annual Meeting
Last September 25 to 26, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) held its eighth annual meeting at Sharm El-Sheik, Egypt. With the theme, “Sustainable Growth in a Challenging World”, the bank stressed on the role of multilateralism in order to address the...
Nowhere in the Middle: APRCEM NGO Constituency on the outcomes of the SDG Summit
At the midpoint of the Agenda 2030, only 15% of the targets are on track. In the Asia-Pacific, this translates to compounded impacts of the pandemic on health and economic systems, debt burden on the poorest, worsening conflict, deterioration of social protection...
In new Private Sector Watch Report, CSOs examine private sector engagement using Kampala Principles, amplify recommendations for people-centred development
Today’s development landscape heavily favours the private sector, oftentimes at the the expense of people and the environment. Amid this state of development finance, the CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness (CPDE) and The Reality of Aid Network (RoA) sought...
CSOs to launch a report on private sector engagement and development effectiveness
Following severe global crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the climate emergency, wars and conflicts, and inflation, the world is now further off-track from attaining the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The private sector has been held up as a ‘silver...
On South-South Cooperation: Assessing its political relevance and envisioning a future beyond technical cooperation
South-South Cooperation (SSC) has been regaining traction in recent years. Due to setbacks in North-South Cooperation, calls for new development efforts are increasing. Development partnerships among Southern states aim to be complementary to traditional cooperation...
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