News & Features
Aid Effectiveness Linked to Better Financing for Development in Doha
RoA Secretariat
Posted: December 22, 2008
A side event entitled "Accra to Doha: from Aid Effectiveness to Better Financing for Development" was organised by the Reality of Aid secretariat during the International Conference on Financing for Development on December 1, 2008 in the Dukhan Function Room of the Sheraton Hotel in Doha, Qatar.
Aid Fails to Deliver Real Progress for RP, Other Poor Countries, Says Report
RoA Secretariat
Posted: December 12, 2008
Civil society organizations (CSOs) under the Reality of Aid Network (ROA) today said that foreign aid has not been effective in delivering real progress for many of the world’s poor, despite the signing of the Paris Declaration in which donors and governments pledge on making aid actually work for development.
The Reality of Aid 2008 Report Launch in Australia
AID/WATCH
Posted: December 04, 2008
Speakers from AID/WATCH and ACFID spoke about some changes in Australian government aid since the new Labor government took power, however noted the urgent need to hold the new government to its commitments to increase aid levels in the face of the current financial crisis and to end Australia’s promotion of aid conditionality and Pacific land reform.
Crisis the Focus as Civil Society Gather for Two-day Debate
Posted: November 26, 2008
“Is the United States a ‘failed state’? Its financial mismanagement has triggered a world wide crisis.” Thus, Social Watch coordinator Roberto Bissio challenged some 300 civil society delegates, who meet today at the Ramada Plaza Hotel. The Civil Society Forum leading to the Financing for Development Review Conference is addressing the international crises that threaten our climate, development and social justice, developing recommendations for change to carry into the official Conference.
Civil Society and Development Effectiveness: Another View
Tomlinson,B.; Fernandez,R.
Posted: November 22, 2008
Donors have been constructing new approaches to aid delivery based on lessons in aid effectiveness drawn from past decades of development cooperation. To date, aid reform strategies to improve aid effectiveness, most recently expressed in the 2005 Paris Declaration, have single-mindedly focused on donor-government relationships. This edition of the Reality Check review tackles the other critical issues of civil society and development effectiveness. In the lead-up to the Accra High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, civil society organisations (CSOs) have been challenged to respond to the 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness in relation to their own effectiveness as aid and development actors.
The Reality of Aid 2008 Report Launch in New Zealand
Posted: October 31, 2008
Wellington, New Zealand - The Council for International Development (CID) successfully launched the Reality of Aid 2008 Report on Aid Effectiveness: Democratic Ownership and Human Rights on October 17.
Brief Report on Implementation of the Project: NGO Initiative for Aid Effectiveness
Posted: October 30, 2008
Mongolia’s Centre for Human Rights and Development, with technical and financial assistance from the two international civil society organizations, The Reality of Aid and The Better Aid respectively organized an ‘NGO initiative for Aid Effectiveness’ on September 30-October 2, 2008. This NGO initiative consisted of two parts: an NGO Forum and a Multi-stakeholder Consultative Meeting.
Post Accra Workshop Schedules
RoA Secretariat
Posted: October 29, 2008
NGO Initiative for Aid Effectiveness
Date: September 30 -October 2, 2008
Venue: Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Organisers: Centre for Human Rights and Development and The Reality of Aid Network
World Aid Summit Makes Marginal Progress to Reform Ineffective Aid
Posted: September 04, 2008
Ministers met today in Accra to agree an agenda to make aid work better for the poor, but back-room deals and obstructions within the negotiations have soured the deal.
Reality of Aid in 2008:Aid Reform Must Deepen By 2011
RoA Secretariat
Posted: September 01, 2008
While donors and governments are seeking to monitor the progress of the Paris Declaration (PD) at the Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness this week, civil society leaders are looking for broader and deeper reforms on aid.
ACCRA Agenda for Action (Second Draft, 27 June 2008)
Posted: July 16, 2008
Ministers of developed and developing countries responsible from promoting development and Heads of multilateral and bilateral development institutions, adopted the following statement in Accra, Ghana, on 4 September 2008.
Changing Face of Global Development Finance - FINAL REPORT
Halifax Initiative
Posted: April 28, 2008
The Final Report includes a summary of the presentations and discussions at the conference.
A presentation on Development Finance and Aid Effectiveness on UNCTAD XII
RoA Secretariat
Posted: April 14, 2008
A REALITY OF AID NETWORK and IBON FOUNDATION presentation on Development Finance and Aid Effectiveness during the UNCTAD XII Civil Society Forum.
Preparatory Events in the Round-up to the International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus
http://www.un-ngls.org/ffd/en/
Posted: March 03, 2008
- Review Session on Chapter I of the Monterrey Consensus, "Mobilizing domestic financial resources for development"
- Review session on Chapter II, "Mobilizing international resources for development: foreign direct investment and other private flows"
- Review session on Chapter V, "External Debt"
- Review Session on Chapter VI, "Addressing systemic issues: enhancing the coherence and consistency of the international monetary, financial and trading systems in support of development"
- Review session on Chapter IV, "Increasing international financial and technical cooperation for development"
- Review Session on Chapter III, "International trade as an engine for development"
- Hearings of Civil Society and the Business Sector
The Reality of Aid 2008 Theme Statement: Aid Effectiveness: Democratic Ownership and Human Rights
RoA Management Committee
Posted: January 29, 2008
Donor, partner governments and civil society organizations (CSOs) will come together in Accra Ghana during the first week of September 2008 in the Third High Level Forum (HLF3) to review the implementation of the 2005 Paris Declaration. In the lead-up to the HLF3 civil society organizations globally are undertaking consultations, research and advocacy on the effectiveness of aid in relation to its impact on poverty and inequality. CSOs will be pressing donors and partner governments to not only meet their Paris commitments to 2010, but also to significantly deepen their reforms of aid as an effective catalyst that truly contributes to ending global poverty. Many CSOs in the Reality of Aid Network will be participating in these consultations in the latter part of 2007 and in a multi-stakeholder forum in Canada in February 2008.
Advisory Group International Forum on CSOs and Aid Effectiveness
RoA Secretariat
Posted: January 28, 2008
The Advisory Group will be bringing together approximately 150 to 200 CSOs from the South and the North, donor representatives and Southern government representatives for an International Forum to consider the results of the consultations (and from other processes related to the mandate of the Adivsory Group). The International Forum will offer analysis and advice to the Advisory Group on issues related to its mandate.
Update: Schedules of Workshops
RoA Secretariat
Posted: January 08, 2008
The following are additional schedules for workshops.
Register now!
Posted: January 01, 2008
Register now to hear Southern perspectives on The Changing Face of Global Finance – Impacts and implications for aid, development , the South and the Bretton Woods Institutions in Ottawa, Canada on February 1-2, 2008.