We are pleased to announce that the Reality of Aid 2006 Asia Pacific Region is now available. Kindly email the Reality of Aid Secretariat for the ordering schemes.

Reality of Aid Asia-Pacific Report 2006

The Reality of Aid Reports analyzes the impact of policies and actions of the international community, and in particular of aid donors, on the rights, needs and interests of populations affected by conflict. The Reality of Aid’s key messages for reform are derived from these realities and proposals made by the Report’s contributors from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, the Americas and the OECD countries.

Since 1992, Reality of Aid Reports have focused on the ways in which aid has too often  served donors’ foreign policy and strategic interests, in turn ignoring and sometimes undermining the rights and needs of people living in poverty.  It has also pointed to the incremental progress in increasing the poverty focus of ODA starting in the late 1990s.

This Asia Pacific Edition of the Reality of Aid 2006 Report on the theme of “Conflict, Security and Development Cooperation” seeks to highlight the issues of conflict and security as serious aspects and concerns in development cooperation. 

This Edition features a reproduction of the political chapter, world trends and Asia Pacific chapter from the 2006 Global Report, while presenting additional contributions form different civil society organizations in the region.

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Reality of Aid Asia-Pacific Report 2005

Japan Official Development Assistance remains controversial in the donor community because of issues fo tied aid, extremely skewed loan-grants distribution, overcentralization of decision making, lack of transparency and so on. On the other hand, important changes are occurring in Japan ODA policy in terms of governance among others that make it even more important to take this Gloden Jubilee as an important occation to press for reforms long demanded by various Japanese, recipient country and international NGOs and people's movements.

A conference in commemoration of the Golden Jubilee of Japan ODA held on October 6-8, 2004 culminated the Japan ODA reform campaign launched by the Reality of Aid Asia-Pacific network.

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Reality of Aid Asia-Pacific Report 2004

The Reality of Aid 2004 Report is composed of a very diverse picture on governance and human rights in international cooperation. But despite this diverse picture — a few clear messages come through loud and very clear.

• The risk that aid is being diverted from the overriding necessity of eliminating poverty for the many to the narrow, and very probably illusory end, of promoting security for the few.
• The continued domination and mal-administration of global political and economic mechanisms by OECD countries, especially G8 donors and very particularly, the United States.
• The Alice in Wonderland interpretation of good governance and human rights by OECD donors — so that these terms mean whatever OECD countries want them to mean.

This is the Asia edition of that report. It compiles a reproduction of the main report and the global data on aid performance besides reports from Asia Pacific and the Middle East.

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