An Independent Review of Poverty Reduction and International Development Assistance

The Reality of Aid Project  

• Acknowledgments
  
• Participating Agencies
  

Part I: Introduction  

• Introduction
  Elin Enge,
  Chair, The Reality of Aid
• Political Overview
  

Part II: Africa  

• Retracing the path to sustainability
  African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD), in collaboration with Uganda Debt Network, Zambia Association for Research and Development, Partnership – Cameroon, Tanzania Social and Economic Trust, Mozambique Debt Group, Zimbabwe Coalition

Part III: Asia  

• Post-crash flows fail to ease the human toll
  Antonio Tujan Jr, IBON
• Japanese ODA in Indonesia - a high price for poverty
  Sugeng Bahagijo, International NGO Forum on Indonesia Development (INFID), Indonesia
• Creating the conditions for economic collapse
  Goh Chien Yen, Third World Network, Malaysia (TWN)
• Trading national sovereignty - for debt
  Rosario Bella Guzman, IBON Foundation, Philippines
• ODA and gender conditionality: equal partnership is long overdue
  Gertrudes A. Ranjo-Libang, Center for Women’s Resources (CWR), Philippines
• Who’s aiding whom? Poverty, conflict and ODA in Nepal
  Gopal Siwakoti ‘Chintan’, Water and Energy Users’ Federation (WAFED), Nepal

Part IV: Latin America  

• Increase masks downward trend
  Federico Negrón, CEPES/ALOP
• Plan Colombia: cooperation towards war or peace
  ALOP
• Out of the Tower of Babel
  Mariano Valderrama, (CEPES-ALOP)
• Partnership questioned: NGOs and external conditionality
  ALOP

Part V: OECD  

• Promoting ownership and gender equality
  Brian Tomlinson, Canadian Council for International Cooperation (CCIC)
• The Asian Development Bank and conditionality –if it’s not part of the solution…
  Andrew Nette, ACFOA Policy Officer
• When a Blessing is a Curse: US goals in IMF and World Bank policy-making
  Nancy Alexander, Globalization Challenge Initiative
• Cotonou Agreement: trail-blazing or treading a well-worn path?
  Louise Hilditch, ActionAid
• Partnership and poverty-focus in tension: a donor case study
  ActionAid UK

Part VI: World Aid and Donor Reports  

• Never richer, never poorer
  Tony German and Judith Randel, Development Initiatives
• Australia: Figures inflated by defence spending
  Andrew Nette and Mic McClellan, ACFOA
• Austria: New law brings few commitments
  Elfriede Schachner, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (AGEZ)
• Belgium: Regional policy may not deliver
  Han Verleyen, 11.11.11, Coalition of the Flemish North South movement