Reality of Aid & World Poverty

Just to keep your eyes and ears vigilant, here are two recoms which I personally really embrace.
First is -according to their self-description- a "[...]non-governmental organization focused on monitoring analysis and lobbying for poverty eradication projects, policies and development with donor countries."
Run by development professionals and thus somehow inherently related to my own blog here (but having more experience of course): Reality of Aid Network (http://www.realityofaid.org/)

The Reality of Aid Network (RoA) is the only major North/South international non-governmental initiative focusing exclusively on analysis and lobbying for poverty eradication policies and practices in the international aid regime. It brings together 172 member organizations, including more than 40 civil society regional and global networks, working in the field of international cooperation in the 21 donor countries of the OECD, and in Europe, the Americas, Africa, and in the Asia/Pacific. The Reality of Aid Network builds on a seventeen-year track record of independent assessment of aid policies and practices, accompanied by constructive dialogue with policy makers at national and international levels.

...What seems disturbing here, is the label "lobbying for poverty eradication policies and practices in the international aid regime"?! Why lobbying? This undermines to some extent the claim of providing "the reality" of the aid business. And if this were the case, why then not questioning the international aid regime as well, which is under constant attack of producing knowingly poverty...

Anywho.

Second interesting input: The new World Poverty Report "Combating Poverty and Inequality" (2010) by UNRISD (UN Research Department) and its interesting description of the changing world scenery over the last years and nowadays.
Can be found here: http://www.unrisd.org/80256B3C005BB128/%28httpProjects%29/791B1580A0FFF8...

May I ask you to contrast it with this one by UN DESA (UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs): http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/rwss/2010.html (2010): "Rethinking Poverty".
This latter one is really an inspiring source of new and partly brillant ideas, I think.
"It affirms the urgent need for a strategic shift away from the market fundamentalist thinking, policies and practices of recent decades towards more sustainable development- and equity-oriented policies appropriate to national conditions and circumstances."
However, I am convinced that both growth and nation states borders won't serve as ideological and measurement-related limits anymore for, again both, aid and poverty strategies.

Any comments?