Reality of Aid

HIGHLIGHTS

RoA-AP, CPDE Asia launches first hybrid Regional Meeting & Workshop

As the pandemic continues to diminish the already inadequate support and assistance from development cooperation actors in addressing the world's most pressing issues, there is an increasing gap between the world's wealthiest nations and the least developed and...

CSO Critique on AIIB’s Energy Sector Strategy Update

The CSO Critique on the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’s Energy Sector Strategy forwards alternative principles to those posed by the bank, in order to forward a rights-based, people-centered and climate-resilient future for the region and beyond. During this...

Escalating Debt, Declining Democracies: Statement of Reality of Aid-Asia Pacific on the region’s economic and democratic crises

The world is facing a global debt crisis largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, rising costs of food and fuel brought about by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and impending threats of climate change. In the Asia-Pacific alone, 25 countries are exposed to the food,...

Call for Writers: CSO Aid Observatorio’s Deep Dives

Deep Dives are working papers that discuss emerging trends and key issues related to Reality of Aid-Asia Pacific’s thematic areas and how these affect marginalized and vulnerable sectors such as women, Indigenous Peoples, and rural communities, among others. Deep...

Beyond UN’s Build Back Better: Three things the APFSD did not tackle

Last March 28 to 31, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) held its annual Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development. The theme, “Building back better from COVID-19 while advancing the full implementation of the 2030...

Escazu Agreement: An Opportunity for the Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean in the Face of Environmental Crises

Escazu Agreement: An Opportunity for the Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean in the Face of Environmental Crises Georgina Muñoz, RENICC, Nicaragua Perhaps the greatest challenge in our world today is the need to identify and implement solutions to our...