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ODA DEBT: WHEN PROMISES FADE

This brief offers critical insights into the future of aid as the world navigates through 2025 and beyond. It presents analysis of aid project lifespans, disbursement gaps (the difference between committed and delivered funds), and delays (the time between commitment and actual disbursement), with a specific focus on Africa. Drawing on 20 years of data, it examines aid flows from the Group of Seven (G7) countries and selected multilateral donors to all African countries over the period 2005 to 2024.

SSC: A Challenge to the Aid System?

SSC: A Challenge to the Aid System? This report from the Reality of Aid Network takes a critical look at the nature, shortcomings and potentials of South-South Development Cooperation from a Southern civil society perspective.

Busan Partnership: Challenges And Opportunities For Creating An Enabling Environment For CSOs In Africa

This report seeks to give an account of the level of readiness for the provisions of the Busan Partnership for Effective Development of December 2011, at the Fourth High Level Forum, to become a reality.

Towards An Enabling Environment For Youth And Child Rights Civil Society Organisations: A Synthesis Report

This publication is a synthesis report which documents the level of preparedness for the Busan Agenda among Youth and Child Rights civil society organisations (CSOs) in four countries, namely: Kenya, Swaziland, Tanzania and South Africa. The report was commissioned by Reality of Aid-Africa (RoA-A) as part of its oversight role over[RA1] monitoring the commitments of governments and their development partners over the Busan Agenda to[RA2] usher an enabling environment for effective development.