The Reality of Aid Project

What is ROA?

The Reality of Aid project is the only major north/south international non-governmental initiative focusing exclusively on analysis and lobbying for poverty eradication policies and practices in the international aid regime. It brings together more than 40 civil society networks working in the field of international cooperation in the 22 donor countries, in Asia, the Americas and Africa. The project builds on a ten-year track record of independent assessment of aid policies and practices, accompanied by constructive dialogue with policy makers at national and international levels.

The Reality of Aidproject aims to contribute to more effective international aid and development cooperation strategies to eliminate poverty, based on principles of North/South solidarity and equity.

It achieves this goal by

Objectives

• Providing reliable and well-researched reports on international aid performance;
• Influencing national and international policy makers, in the North and the South, through lobbying and policy dialogue;
• Contributing to an informed debate on the role of aid in poverty eradication;
• Increasing public knowledge and awareness and thereby popular and political pressure for accountable development cooperation policies in donor countries;
• Facilitating collaboration and shared learning between NGOs and CSOs from all regions of the world to enhance their capacity to advocate for effective development cooperation.