The Reality of Aid
The Reality of Aid Network is a Global North/South Network on Reforming Aid Policies and Practices The Reality of Aid (RoA) Network is a unique global advocacy network of civil society organizations (CSOs) focusing on the goals of poverty eradication and equality in the policies and practices in the international aid regime. It brings together hundreds of CSOs from regional and global networks. RoA aims to contribute to more effective strategies to eliminate poverty, based on principles of solidarity and equity, through advocacy and lobbying for changes in North/South systemic relationships and in aid practices.
The Reality of Aid monitors aid trends and publishes
The Reality Of Aid Report
The RoA Network publishes a major biennial thematic Report, assessing aid effectiveness for poverty reduction with an emphasis on qualitative analysis of the national and multilateral aid regime. The Reality of Aid Reports analyze and advocate key messages focusing on the performance of aid donors from a unique perspective of civil society in both donor and Recipient developing countries. The Reports are a credible corrective to official publications on development assistance and poverty reduction. The Reports are known all over the world as an important independent comparative reference for accountability and public awareness of development issues.
Regional Reports
The Reality of Aid Network facilitates the production of regular regional reports in Asia, Africa and Latin America, which draw on the common analysis of the global Report with additional regionally-generated chapters. National reports in the North are also drawn from the global Report.
Reality Check
The Reality of Aid Network issues occasional magazine, the Reality Check, which is designed to highlight current issues in the aid regime, and is written from a regional perspective with a global significance, produced in rotation by members from the different global regions.
The Reality of Aid engages in
Advocacy
RoA builds on the national capacities for advocacy of member organizations for international global advocacy on aid program and reform. In recent years, with the systematic inclusion of Southern Networks, RoA has emphasized regional strategies for advocacy with appropriate specific agenda and targets. RoA works with its regional and international structure to develop this global advocacy agenda and capacity.
Lobbying and Policy Dialogue
RoA’s poverty-focused analysis, lobbying and multi-stakeholder policy dialogue accentuate influencing national and international policy-makers in the North and the South. Network members increase popular and political pressure for accountable and effective development co-operation policies in donor countries. The RoA plays a leading role in dialogue with the OECD’s Working Party on Aid Effectiveness and with donors and governments at high level events on aid effectiveness (Paris in 2005, Accra in 2008, Bogota in 2010). Members are also influencing UN processes, such as the DCF, or other important regional bodies.
Information Sharing and Public Debate
RoA analyses trends in international and development cooperation that are summarized in reliable, accessible and well-researched reports, and which contribute to public knowledge and awareness. The Global Reports and Reality Checks are widely distributed in the North and the South. National and international launches and dialogues are also organized.
Workshop for Reform of Aid Governance
Members of RoA, by means of independent or coordinated endeavor, initiated various measures such as multi-stakeholder consultations, seminars, researches and other activities towards the promotion of CSO positions on aid and development effectiveness in the OECD's 1 2008
Third High Level Forum in Accra.
RoA has continued these initiatives after Accra and is presently implementing the “Country Outreach Program for Broad Implementation of the Accra Agenda for Action (AAA): from aid effectiveness to development effectiveness”. RoA aims to actuate the country level implementation of the AAA through CSO capacity building, multi-stakeholder dialogue, and promotion of good practices.
External links
- [http://www.realityofaid.org: The Reality of Aid]
- [http://www.roaafrica.org/: Reality of Aid Africa]
- [http://www.betteraid.org: BetterAid]