CARAM ASIA - Coordination of Action Research on AIDS and Mobility

More than 80 participants from various Asian countries congregate at a conference on Official Development Assistance (ODA) in Asia from 25 to 27 July, 2007 held in the Philippines. CARAM Asia and a few partners participated in the event. The aim of the conference was to:

1) Exchange views on the status and impact of ODA

2) Come up with a regional policy agenda and action for advocating the increase in the quantity and quality of aid in Asia and

3) Provide a platform to critic aid policies and processes and deliberate on alternatives in Asia.

The conference culminated in a drafting of a declaration on “Building an Asian Peoples’ Agenda on Aid” which will be adopted after participants finalised the declaration. Read more...

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