Reality of Aid

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RE-IMAGINING AID: Ending Structural Racism in the Modern-Day Aid System

The Reality of Aid-Asia Pacific and Aid/Watch Australia are currently hosting a webinar series called Aid Talks, which discusses the most pressing issues on aid and development cooperation today and the critical issues surrounding it. The fourth Aid Talks will be...

Intervention on Sustainable Finance Recovery for UNESCAP’s 5th Southeast Asia Multi-Stakeholder Forum

Last September 30, the Reality of Aid-Asia Pacific (RoA-AP) was tasked to give a short intervention on behalf of the Asia Pacific Regional CSO Engagement Mechanism (APRCEM) in the Session on Sustainable Finance Recovery of the UNESCAP’s 5th Southeast Asia...

The World Bank’s Development Policy Financing – Implications for a just, green and feminist recovery

Development Policy Financing is a lending instrument that supports targeted policy reforms and provides finance directly to a borrowing country’s general budget. DPF nudges countries towards neoliberal, financialisation reforms by conditioning budget support on the...

The Cascade/MFD and a just and sustainable recovery: A first review in the pandemic context

Multiple crises caused by COVID-19 have created an unprecedented global shock. The WBG released a framework for supporting green, resilient and inclusive development (GRID), which emphasizes ‘private sector solutions’—akin to its previous Maximising Finance for...

Reality of Aid – Asia Pacific holds its 2021 Regional Meeting, “Accelerate Efforts; Amplify Voices”

The Reality of Aid - Asia Pacific (RoA-AP), along with the CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness (CPDE) - Asia, held their annual Regional Meeting, “Accelerate Efforts; Amplify Voices: Bolstering Solidarity toward People-centered Development Cooperation”. The...

How COVID-19 exacerbated existing socioeconomic inequalities in the Arab region – ANND

Download the Spanish translation here.The coronavirus pandemic has revealed fundamental flaws in the systems of governance and the delivery of basic social services to the people around the world. The ongoing health crisis especially exposed the weakness of healthcare...