Podcasts by Devpolicy Talks

Engaging Business In Development Session 1 from 2023-12-13T14:13:04.257113

This full day forum examined recent experience and explore the potential for further aid investment in partnership with business in four areas: inclusive business ventures, service delivery, pro...

Engaging Business In Development Session 2 from 2023-12-13T14:13:04.248371

This full day forum examined recent experience and explore the potential for further aid investment in partnership with business in four areas: inclusive business ventures, service delivery, pro...

Engaging Business In Development Session 3 from 2023-12-13T14:13:04.241273

This full day forum examined recent experience and explore the potential for further aid investment in partnership with business in four areas: inclusive business ventures, service delivery, pro...

Engaging Business In Development Session 4 from 2023-12-13T14:13:04.237297

This full day forum examined recent experience and explore the potential for further aid investment in partnership with business in four areas: inclusive business ventures, service delivery, pro...

Revisiting The Limits Of Growth - A Global Forecast For The Next Forty Years from 2023-12-13T14:13:04.234124

Jorgen Randers, Professor of Climate Strategy from the BI Norwegian Business School, is one of the world's most respected and rigorous global systems experts. Forty years ago he co-authored the ...

Timor-Leste and the New Deal for Engagement in fragile states from 2023-12-13T14:13:04.183901

Timor-Leste, which gained its independence in 2002, is one of the world's youngest countries. Born out of a history of violence and poverty, in recent years Timor-Leste has experienced both soci...

Economics and emigration - trillion dollar bills on the sidewalk from 2023-12-13T14:13:04.135763

One of the biggest growth opportunities in the world economy lies not in the mobility of goods or capital, but in the mobility of labour.

Many people born in low-income countries would li...

Stephen Howes interviews Michael Clemens from 2023-12-13T14:13:04.078954

In this podcast Devpolicy Director Stephen Howes sits down with Michael Clemens, a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Global Development and migration expert. The main topics covered were:

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Interview with Peter Forau on the Melanesian Spearhead Group from 2023-12-13T14:13:04.049862

Devpolicy Research Associate Tess Newton Cain sits down with Peter Forau, Director General of the Melanesian Spearhead Group Secretariat, discussing their successes throughout 25 years of operat...

Public expenditure and financial management in fragile states from 2023-12-13T14:13:04.003431

Few would argue that a country’s development trajectory is not crucially influenced by its government’s ability to manage public resources. The stability of the economy, the delivery of basic se...

An interview with World Bank VP Rachel Kyte from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.973139

Frank Jotzo, Senior Lecturer at the ANU's Crawford School of Public Policy, sits down with Rachely Kyte, Vice President for Sustainable Development at the World Bank. In this brief but wide rang...

Climate change - avoiding a four degree warmer world from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.959122

Rachel Kyte, Vice President for Sustainable Development at the World Bank, spoke recent at the Development Policy Centre about the risk a 4 degree warmer world poses for development and the impa...

Pacific conversations - interview with Sir Mekere Morauta from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.878528

Devpolicy Research Associate Tess Newton Cain sits down with Sir Mekere Morauta, Review Leader of the 2013 Pacific Plan Review.

A full transcript is available here: http://devpolicy.org/p...

Pacific conversations - interview with Sina Retzlaff from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.873524

Devpolicy Research Associate Tess Newton Cain sits down with Sina Retzlaff, Samoa country representative for the Pacific Leadership Program.

A full transcript is available here: http://de...

2013 aid budget breakfast from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.859920

The annual aid budget is the most important event for the aid sector. And it is a time when the entire sector converges on Canberra for the budget lock up. Devpolicy seized this opportunity to h...

Paul Collier on how the private sector can help the bottom billion from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.855935

In his universally acclaimed and award-winning book The Bottom Billion, Paul Collier argues that fifty failed states-home to the poorest one billion people on earth-pose the central challenge of...

Ume Wainetti on combatting family and sexual violence in PNG from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.851684

Ume Wainetti is National Coordinator of the PNG Family and Sexual Violence Action Committee (FSVAC), the body charged with coordinating the national response to gender-based violence.She has yea...

David Booth - business, politics and the state in Africa - challenging the orthodoxies from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.848275

Having achieved historically unprecedented economic growth over recent years, African countries now face the challenge of structurally transforming their economies. However, the politics of how ...

Disability-inclusive development forum from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.844996

People with disability are among the poorest and most marginalised in developing countries. One estimate is that there are one billion people with disability worldwide, including 20% of the worl...

Francois Bourguignon On Globalisation And Inequality from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.842398

Two important trend reversals have taken place in global inequality over the last 25 years: the inequality between countries has started to decrease after two centuries of steady increase and th...

John Gibson on two decades of poverty in PNG from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.839336

Papua New Guinea recently completed its second national household consumption survey, potentially enabling poverty comparisons with baseline estimates from 14 years earlier. But the methods used...

Pacific Update 1 - regional overview, Melanesia and Timor-Leste from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.835995

The 2013 Pacific and PNG Update provides a forum for the discussion of the latest economic, social and political developments in the region. The Update was hosted by the Development Policy Centr...

Pacific Update 2 - Small Island States from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.792323

The 2013 Pacific and PNG Update provides a forum for the discussion of the latest economic, social and political developments in the region. The Update was hosted by the Development Policy Centr...

Pacific Update 3 - regional trade, labour mobility and linkages from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.781126

The 2013 Pacific and PNG Update provides a forum for the discussion of the latest economic, social and political developments in the region. The Update was hosted by the Development Policy Centr...

Pacific Update 4 - regional integration from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.775543

The 2013 Pacific and PNG Update provides a forum for the discussion of the latest economic, social and political developments in the region. The Update was hosted by the Development Policy Centr...

Pacific Update 5 - Pacific gender update from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.768348

The 2013 Pacific and PNG Update provides a forum for the discussion of the latest economic, social and political developments in the region. The Update was hosted by the Development Policy Centr...

Pacific Update 6 - public management and private sector development from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.762677

The 2013 Pacific and PNG Update provides a forum for the discussion of the latest economic, social and political developments in the region. The Update was hosted by the Development Policy Centr...

PNG Update 1 - Albert Mellam on PNG higher education from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.757604

The 2013 Pacific and PNG Update provided a forum for the discussion of the latest economic, social and political developments in the region. The Update was hosted by the Development Policy Centr...

PNG Update 2 - economic and political update from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.752771

The 2013 Pacific and PNG Update provided a forum for the discussion of the latest economic, social and political developments in the region. The Update was hosted by the Development Policy Centr...

PNG Update 3 - issues in public service delivery from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.745541

The 2013 Pacific and PNG Update provided a forum for the discussion of the latest economic, social and political developments in the region. The Update was hosted by the Development Policy Centr...

PNG Update 4 - economic policy challenges from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.737788

The 2013 Pacific and PNG Update provided a forum for the discussion of the latest economic, social and political developments in the region. The Update was hosted by the Development Policy Centr...

PNG Update 5 - gender-based violence from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.690706

The 2013 Pacific and PNG Update provided a forum for the discussion of the latest economic, social and political developments in the region. The Update was hosted by the Development Policy Centr...

34 Does Official Development Assistance Have A Future from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.686551

The end of official development assistance (ODA) has been confidently predicted for decades.

But a funny thing happened at the end of the 90s. A set of development targets identified by t...

Pacific Conversations with Francis Herman from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.679744

Tess Newton Cain sits down with Francis Herman, Program Manager of the regional Pacific Media Assistance program (PACMAS) and a highly experienced media professional to give his assessment of th...

Pacific Conversations with Tara Chetty from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.675660

Tess Newton Cain sits down with Tara Chetty program director at the FIji Women's Rights Movements.

A full transcript of the interview is available here: http://devpolicy.org/pacific-conve...

Texts, tweets and social change - how can communications contribute to development from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.669591

Over the past decade, the world has witnessed a digital revolution and its impacts have not been limited to those living in wealthy countries. By 2014, it is predicted there will be more active ...

Value for money in aid from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.663425

Aid agencies increasingly stress the importance of value for money, but what does this mean, and might a managerial focus on results actually undermine aid effectiveness, or simply result in aid...

Perspectives in global development - industrial policies in a changing world from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.658774

Since the mid-1990s, economic growth rates in large and populous middle-income countries have substantially outpaced those in OECD countries. This has reshaped the global economy and favoured co...

Election forum on Australian aid from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.648936

Australia’s aid program has increased massively over the last decade, but its future is unclear, and aid policy has become controversial. The Labor Government has repeatedly delayed its target t...

Child protection in Afghanistan from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.640051

Decades of conflict have eroded the physical and social fabric of Afghanistan, with severe impacts on the lives of children. Kerry Boland, consultant to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICE...

Goals for people - a review of post-2015 proposals, and some suggestions from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.573139

Until recently, discussions on a new post-2015 framework to succeed the Millennium Development Goals mostly revolved around general principles or else very particular features of a possible land...

Duncan Green - How do we plan, campaign and work in development from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.566283

How do we plan, campaign and work in development when we don’t know what is going to happen and we don’t know what solutions will work? Aid professionals know that real life has a way of ignorin...

An interview with Duncan Green from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.560731

Oxfam's Duncan Green speaks with Devpolicy's Associate Director Robin Davies about the realities of doing development in complex systems.

Tapping the market - opportunities for domestic investments in WASH from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.536975

Throughout the developing world, millions of people lack access to safe water and improved sanitation, which has high social and economic costs. The World Bank’s Water and Sanitation Program (WS...

Pacific Conversations with Katy Le Roy from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.439356

Tess Newton Cain sits down with Katy Leroy, a constitutional lawyer who has lived on Nauru for seven years. Until very recently she was Parliamentary Counsel for Nauru with responsibility for dr...

Are international organisations up to the challenge of providing global public goods for development from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.395496

The most serious problems that developing countries face are increasingly international in nature. Climate change, water scarcity, communicable diseases, food insecurity and the depletion of for...

The challenges of aid dependency and economics for Africa and the Pacific from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.299568

After decades of poor economic performance, Africa is doing much better, with higher economic growth. Why? What role did aid play? And what are the lessons for the Pacific? Jim Adams knows both ...

Are the Asia and Pacific small states different from other small states from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.297036

The small states of the Asia and Pacific region face unique challenges in raising their growth potential and living standards relative to other small states due to their small populations, geogr...

Pacific Conversations with Odo Tevi from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.288746

Tess Newton Cain sits down with Odo Tevi, who was Governor of the Reserve Bank of Vanuatu for the last 15 years, to discuss the Vanuatu economy.

Blog post available here: http://devpolicy...

Syria - responding to the humanitarian challenge of a generation on the brink from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.284067

The unfolding crisis in Syria has left more than eight million people displaced from their homes. Cut off from vital services, desperately in need of water, food and health care, today an entire...

Economics of climate change in the Pacific from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.280945

The Pacific region is particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, which carry the risk of significant economic costs. The Asian Development Bank’s report on the economics of climat...

Interview with Daisy Plana on family and sexual violence survivors in PNG from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.275777

Ashlee Betteridge sits down with Daisy Plana to discuss her new role as the Senior Social Worker and first CEO of the PNG Family and Sexual Violence Case Management Centre (CMC).The CMC is a new...

Afghanistan: what has been achieved? from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.270564

As troops withdraw and aid declines, this is a critical period of transition for Afghanistan. At this forum, the speakers questioned what has been achieved to date.

The event also include...

2013 Australian aid stakeholder survey from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.266460

In July and August 2013 the Development Policy Centre surveyed 356 stakeholders in the Australian aid program, from the senior executives of Australia’s biggest NGOs and development contracting ...

Pacific conversations with Kolone Vaai from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.262211

Tess Newton Cain sits down with Kolone Vaai, Principal Consultant at KVAConsult Ltd and former Financial Secretary for the Government of Samoa (1984-1990).

Blog post available here: http:...

2014 AAIDP Workshop - Julie Bishop Opening Address from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.258

Julie Bishop, Minister for Foreign Affairs, delivered the opening address at the 2014 Australasian Aid and Development Policy Workshop.

A transcript of her speech is available here: http:...

2014 AAIDP Workshop - Roger Riddell - Does aid really work? from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.253305

Roger Ridell is an associate at Oxford Policy Management and is a development and aid specialist with some 40 years’ experience. His 2008 book Does Foreign Aid Really Work? was the first attempt...

2014 AAIDP Workshop - Making their mark: the BRICS and aid from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.196066

This plenary session provided updates and new analysis of aid from three emerging superpowers – China, India and Brazil – from three leading experts.

Dr. Rani Mullen is Director, Indian D...

2014 AAIDP Workshop - Frances Seymour - Forests for climate and development from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.189998

Frances Seymour is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development based in Washington, DC, and a Senior Advisor to the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. In her keynote address, she argu...

2014 AAIDP Workshop - Sir Fazle Hasan Abed dinner speech from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.182924

Sir Fazle Hasan Abed is the Founder and Chairperson of BRAC, the world's largest NGO.

Pacific conversations with Astrid Boulekone from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.173450

Tess Newton Cain sits down with Astrid Boulekone, General Manager of the Vanuatu Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Blog available here: http://devpolicy.org/pacific-conversations-private-...

PNG’s awakening: an interview with Serena Sumanop from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.088961

Serena Sumanop is the Executive Director of The Voice Inc, a home-grown Papua New Guinean NGO working to empower young people to contribute to their communities and to development. During her re...

Risk and hardship in the Pacific and worldwide from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.085385

Over 20 per cent of people in Pacific Island Countries (PICS) live in hardship, meaning they are unable to meet their basic needs. Increasing risks from natural and economic shocks also mean man...

G20's policy challenges for Asia and the Pacific - Development policy: infrastructure reform from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.081438

A part of the 2014 Asia and the Pacific Policy Society Conference 2014 organised by the Development Policy Centre on infrastructure reforms. Presentations were:

The political economy of u...

ODE evaluations part 1: Introduction and volunteers from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.077974

In recent months, the Office of Development Effectiveness, the unit within DFAT that’s responsible for the evaluation of Australia’s aid program, has released three important reports. One is its...

ODE evaluations part 2: aid quality and conclusion from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.075229

In recent months, the Office of Development Effectiveness, the unit within DFAT that’s responsible for the evaluation of Australia’s aid program, has released three important reports. One is its...

PNG’s violence epidemic and the medical response: in conversation with MSF’s Paul Brockmann from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.072331

Paul Brockmann is the outgoing Head of Mission for Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) in Papua New Guinea, focusing on providing medical and psychosocial care for survivors of family and sexual viol...

Pacific conversations with Colin Tukuitonga from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.070152

Tess Newton Cain sits down with Colin Tukuitonga the new Director General of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC).

Blog post available here: http://devpolicy.org/what-does-the-f...

2014 Aid budget breakfast from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.067459

Mel Dunn, URS and IDC Australia; Professor Stephen Howes, Development Policy Centre; Joanna Lindner, Australian Council For International Development; Dr Anthony Swan, Development Policy Centre....

Pacific conversations with Elise Huffer from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.064394

Tess Newton Cain sits down with Elise Huffer, culture Adviser for the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), where she works on the Human Development Program.

Blog post available her...

The Global Partnership for Education: CEO Alice Albright on opportunities and challenges from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.045377

Alice Albright, CEO of the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), was in Canberra in May to meet with the Australian Government ahead of its upcoming funding replenishment. Ms Albright has a lo...

2014 Pacific Update keynote addresses from Yongzheng Yang and Christopher Edmonds from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.043039

The 2014 Pacific Update consisted of two days of panel discussions, including country updates from around the Pacific and panel sessions on: aid to the Pacific; regionalism and the Pacific Plan ...

2014 Pacific Update keynote address from Ron Duncan from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.040471

The 2014 Pacific Update consisted of two days of panel discussions, including country updates from around the Pacific and panel sessions on: aid to the Pacific; regionalism and the Pacific Plan ...

2014 PNG Update keynote address from the Hon Patrick Pruatich from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.037568

The PNG Update discussed and debated the latest economic and social developments in PNG. This event was multidisciplinary in nature. The conference presented papers from academics and practition...

2014 PNG Update keynote address from her Excellency Ms Margaret Adamson from 2023-12-13T14:13:03.033828

The PNG Update discussed and debated the latest economic and social developments in PNG. This event was multidisciplinary in nature. The conference presented papers from academics and practition...

Stephen O’Brien on the Roll Back Malaria Partnership's role and the challenges of fighting Malaria from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.998103

Stephen O’Brien has been a Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom for nearly 15 years. For two and a half years from 2010 he was a development minister in the Department for International De...

Pacific conversations with Fred Samuel Tarisongtamate from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.994873

Tess Newton Cain sits down with Fred Samuel Tarisongtamate, the Government Chief Information Officer for Vanuatu.

Inequality: should developing countries be worried? An interview with Andrew Leigh MP from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.991491

Jonathan Pryke sits down with Andrew Leigh, the Federal Member for Fraser and Shadow Assistant Treasurer.

Blog post available here: http://devpolicy.org/inequality-should-developing-count...

Challenges and opportunities for women in Papua New Guinea from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.987181

Women in Papua New Guinea are chronically under-represented in all levels of government and business and face barriers to achieving a tertiary education. Those who do succeed must navigate a mal...

Private sector partnerships in development: US approaches from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.984299

In 2012, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) convened the Executive Council on Development—a bipartisan group of leaders from government, business, nongovernmental organisa...

Putting our money where our mouths are? Donations to NGOs and support for foreign aid in Australia from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.980230

When they are surveyed, Australians appear to be supportive of aid work. Yet beyond the presence of nominal, high-level support, little is known about the nature of their support for aid, or the...

Telling stories of and for Melanesian women: an interview with Amanda Donigi from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.971967

Tess Newton Cain and Amanda Donigi, publisher of Stella magazine, met recently in Vanuatu. This is a recording of their conversation.

Blog post available here: http://devpolicy.org/tellin...

Poverty in Asia: a deeper look from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.967756

Based on Key Indicators 2014, a flagship publication of the Asian Development Bank, this presentation argued that conventional wisdom on poverty measurement fails to consider significant challen...

Securitisation of aid and NGOs post-9/11 from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.961209

In this public seminar, Dr Jude Howell, Professor of International Development at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), argued that the securitisation of NGOs post-9/11 has rai...

Voice and agency: empowering women and girls for shared prosperity from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.954139

Voice and Agency: empowering women and girls for shared prosperity is a major new report by the World Bank that shines a spotlight on the value of empowerment, the patterns of constraints that l...

Careers in development from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.875932

Many young people are interested in a career in international development. Thousands volunteer in development organisations across the country, and development studies and international relation...

Political instability, the MSG and regional politics – an interview with PM Joe Natuman of Vanuatu from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.872726

Joe Nathan is the Prime Minister of Vanuatu. Tess Newton Cain is a Research Associate at the Development Policy Centre.

Blog post available here: http://devpolicy.org/political-instabilit...

The rise of inequality and the new economic development consensus from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.868811

Inequality is on the rise globally and in Australia. The richest 85 people own the same wealth as the poorest 3.5 billion people. World leaders and global economic institutions are increasingly ...

Legal challenges, law reform and legal education – an interview with Lalotoa Mulitalo from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.863368

Tess Newton Cain and Lalotoa Mulitalo, who is a Law Lecturer at the University of the South Pacific, met recently in Vanuatu. This is a recording of their conversation.

Blog post availabl...

Malaria elimination in the Asia Pacific by 2030 from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.856014

Half of all countries in the world have eliminated malaria, mostly since the Second World War. Ambitious strategies are now being put in place to eradicate human malaria worldwide by 2050 and to...

The challenges of fighting corruption in Papua New Guinea from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.848246

Corruption in Papua New Guinea is widely accepted to be a major development challenge. The fight against it was recently bolstered by the introduction of a new anti-corruption taskforce. In 2011...

Afghanistan 2014: a survey of the Afghan people from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.843461

With the conclusion of the first democratic transition of power in the country’s history and the continuing drawdown of foreign troops, what do the people of Afghanistan think are the most criti...

What was different about the 2014 elections in Solomon Islands and what it means for development from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.838240

The 2014 elections in Solomon Islands brought an intriguing mix of change and continuity. For the first time ever a sitting prime minister lost his seat. Yet the average incumbent survival rate ...

‘A lost decade? Service delivery and reforms in Papua New Guinea 2002-2012’ Australian launch from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.794370

Has PNG been able to translate its economic boom into services for ordinary people?

Based on research undertaken jointly by the National Research Institute (NRI) and the Development Polic...

An interview with Sir Richard Feachem from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.789267

Sir Richard Feachem is Director of the Global Health Group at UCSF Global Health Sciences, Professor of Global Health at the University of California, San Francisco and the University of Califor...

Tourism, regionalism and Niue’s quest for self-sustainability: an interview with Premier Toke Talagi from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.784980

Tess reached out across the International Date Line to talk with the Premier of Niue, Toke Talagi.

Blog post available here: http://devpolicy.org/tourism-regionalism-and-niues-quest-for-s...

The future of the Global Fund - an interview with Mark Dybul from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.778299

During his recent visit to Canberra, Stephen Howes spoke to Dr Mark Dybul, the head of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

Blog post available here: http://devpolicy....

2015 Australasian Aid Conference - Tanya Plibersek opening address from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.761552

Tanya Plibersek, Deputy Leader of the Opposition and Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Development, delivered the opening address at the 2015 Australasian Aid Conference.

2015 Australasian Aid Conference - Robin Davies: the future of aid - three orthodoxies contested from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.748090

Drawing on the findings of a multi-decade aid allocation analysis, and of a survey of developing country governments, Robin Davies contests the orthodoxies that the end of aid is night. He fores...

2015 Australasian Aid Conference - Kylie Charlton - Pioneering impact investment in Asia from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.737661

Kylie Charlton is Managing Director and Co-founder of Unitus Capital.

2015 Australasian Aid Conference - Recipient perspectives on aid from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.694720

The changing aid landscape has implications both for donors and recipient countries. This panel explores what the new aid landscape means from a partner country perspective. Speakers discussed h...

2015 Australasian Aid Conference - Aid from India from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.687231

While aid from traditional donors has ebbed and flowed over recent years, countries like India and China, who have been quietly supporting south-south cooperation for more than 50 years, are rap...

2015 Australasian Aid Conference - Aid, development and conflicts in the Asian frontier from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.681237

This panel included the following presentations:

Understanding conflict, development, and statebuilding: frontier dynamics in central Sulawesi, Indonesia
Rachel Diprose, University ...

2015 Australasian Aid Conference - Aid to the Pacific from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.661756

This panel included the following presentations:

All talk and no action: has the Pacific regional health architecture improved over the last five years? — Joel Negin, Associate Professor ...

Seasonal Worker Program: demand-side constraints and suggested reforms from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.648883

The Seasonal Worker Program (SWP) was established in 2008, initially as a pilot, then in 2012 as a permanent program, to help meet the labour needs in Australia’s horticultural sector and to pro...

Pacific conversations with Dame Meg Taylor from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.645034

During her first visit to Vanuatu as Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS), Dame Meg Taylor took some time to chat with Tess Newton Cain for Pacific Conversations. Listen

Mari Pangestu - The new economy and development: an Indonesian perspective from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.586416

Development in most Asian countries has taken place through several conventional phases. Economies such as Indonesia have started with agriculture/resource based development; have moved to indus...

Has the Sector Wide Approach delivered improvements in population health? from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.582838

Sector Wide Approaches (SWAps) for health emerged in the 1990s as a mechanism to improve efficiency of aid delivery and effectiveness of aid. Health SWAps aim to increase recipient government au...

Australian aid evaluations part 1: Australia's responses to humanitarian crises from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.578677

As in past years, the Development Policy Centre hosted a forum to discuss and debate recent Australian aid evaluations. This year we focused on the new annual report on Australian aid Performanc...

Australian aid evaluations part 2: performance of Australian aid 2013-14 from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.569464

As in past years, the Development Policy Centre hosted a forum to discuss and debate recent Australian aid evaluations. This year we focused on the new annual report on Australian aid Performanc...

2015 aid budget breakfast from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.554264

Last December, the Coalition announced the largest cuts to the aid budget in the history of the Australian aid program: $1 billion or 20 per cent in a single year. How and where will these savin...

PNG Update 2015 - Michael Uiari Keynote Address from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.543584

PNG Update 2015 - Keynote Address by Mr Michael Uiari, General Manager, Oil Search Ltd.

Organised by the University of Papua New Guinea’s School of Business Administration and the ANU Dev...

PNG Update 2015 - Jim Adams Keynote Address from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.537229

2015 PNG Update - Keynote Address by Jim Adams, former Vice President for East Asia and the Pacific, World Bank, on the topic of 'Lessons from reform in Africa and Asia'.

Organised by the...

PNG Update 2015 - Survey of recent developments from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.448982

Presentation of the Survey of Recent Developments by Michael Cornish, Rohan Fox, Win Nicholas, Albert Prabhakar and Ani Rova of the Economics Division, UPNG, and Stephen Howes, Development Polic...

PNG Update 2015 - The Hon James Marape Opening Address from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.442008

2015 PNG Update: Opening Address by the Hon James Marape, Finance Minister, Government of Papua New Guinea.

Organised by the University of Papua New Guinea’s School of Business Administra...

PNG Update 2015 - Glenn Banks Keynote Address from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.398168

2015 PNG Update: Keynote Address by Dr Glenn Banks, Associate Professor, Massey University on the topic of 'From wealth to wellbeing: translating resource revenue into sustainable human developm...

PNG Update 2015 - Gae Kauzi Keynote Address from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.388360

2015 PNG Update - Keynote Address by Dr Gae Kauzi, Assistant Governor, Bank of Papua New Guinea.

Organised by the University of Papua New Guinea’s School of Business Administration and th...

PNG Update 2015 - Welcome Remarks and Inaugural Address from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.381084

2015 PNG Update: Welcome addresses by Professor Albert Mellum and Professor Veronica Taylor, and Inaugural Address by Her Excellency Deborah Stokes, Australian High Commissioner to Papua New Gui...

2015 Pacific Update - Christopher Edmonds - Pacific Economic Outlook from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.364041

Christopher Edmonds of the Asian Development Bank presents the Pacific economic outlook at the 2015 Pacific Update, held at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji, in July.

2015 Pacific Update - Ron Duncan - Drivers of growth spurts in Pacific island economies from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.357082

Emeritus Professor Ron Duncan presents a keynote address on 'Drivers of Growth Spurts in Pacific Island Economies' at the 2015 Pacific Update, held at the University of the South Pacific in Suva...

2015 Pacific Update - Opening Session from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.346451

The Opening Session from the 2015 Pacific Update, held at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji, in July.

More details: https://devpolicy.crawford.anu.edu.au/png-and-pacific-u...

2015 Pacific Update - Stephen Howes - Developments on Pacific labour mobility from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.341004

Stephen Howes of the Development Policy Centre delivers a keynote on recent developments in Pacific labor mobility at the 2015 Pacific Update, held at the University of the South Pacific in Suv...

The fish is the friend of matriliny: reef density and matrilineal inheritance in Melanesia from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.336312

In this public lecture, Joseph Vecci from Monash University explained the results of a recent co-authored paper on reef density and matrilineal inheritance in fishing communities in the Solomon ...

Leveraging the benefits of Asia’s integration and growth for Pacific economies from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.289633

Speakers: Dr Christopher Edmonds, Senior Economist, Pacific Department, Asian Development Bank; Dr Matthias Helble, Research Fellow, Asian Development Bank Institute.

How can Pacific isla...

Out of the rubble: recovering from the Nepalese earthquake from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.271717

Speaker: Ms Liz Satow, National Director, World Vision International Nepal.

What was it like on the ground during the Nepalese earthquake? Liz Satow coordinated the entire NGO response to...

Can the SDGs be achieved by 2030? from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.253979

Speakers: Mr Chris Hoy, Overseas Development Institute (ODI); Ms Joy Kyriacou, Oxfam Australia; Ms Natasha Smith, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade; Professor Stephen Howes, Development Po...

Papua New Guinea: pathways from a potential crisis from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.238370

Speaker: Paul Flanagan, Visiting Fellow, Development Policy Centre, Crawford School, ANU.

Papua New Guinea will need to make some substantial adjustments in its budget and exchange rate s...

Gender-based violence and PNG business: a conversation with Linda Van Leeuwen from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.198663

Dr Linda Van Leeuwen is a Capacity Building Specialist for Anitua, a landholder company based on the island of Lihir in Papua New Guinea that provides a wide range of services to resource compan...

Investing in innovation for health: an interview with BT Slingsby from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.180767

Japan’s advanced pharmaceutical industry is renowned, but until recently had relatively little involvement with the development of products to serve the developing world. The Global Health Innov...

2016 Harold Mitchell Development Policy Annual Lecture - Dr Mark Dybul from 2023-12-13T14:13:02.068849

Speaker: Dr Mark Dybul, Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

Dr Dybul has worked on HIV and public health for more than 25 years as a clinician, ...

AAC2016 - Panel - Forces shaping aid policy, and how we can influence aid for the better from 2023-12-13T14:13:01.988830

Chair: Chris Roche, La Trobe University

In this submitted interactive session panellists at the 2016 Australasian Aid Conference, panellists discussed and debated forces that have led to ...

Aid and refugees in Europe: an interview with Wolfgang Jamann from 2023-12-13T14:13:01.980403

Over one million refugees and asylum seekers entered Europe in 2015, and over 100,000 entered in the first two months of 2016 alone, according to IOM estimates. What has the impact been on Europ...

2016 Australian aid budget breakfast forum from 2023-12-13T14:13:01.946854

At our fourth annual aid budget breakfast the morning after the 2016-17 budget a panel of experts discussed what the 2016-17 budget means for the future of Australian aid.

Speakers: Steph...

Australian aid evaluations: performance of Australian aid from 2023-12-13T14:13:01.940593

This recording is the first part of our aid evaluations forum held in April 2016. It looks at The Performance of Australian Aid report, which is the government’s own annual report card on the ai...

Australian aid evaluations: Australia Awards scholarships and women's leadership from 2023-12-13T14:13:01.895920

This discussion focused on the recent Department of Foreign Affairs (DFAT) Office of Development Effectiveness (ODE) evaluation report, Building Women’s Leadership: the contribution of Australia...

Going beyond ‘politics matters’ in international development from 2023-12-13T14:13:01.862521

That politics has a defining influence over development prospects is now broadly accepted amongst leading development theorists and agencies alike. However, there is less agreement over which fo...

The case of water sector reform in Lebanon from 2023-12-13T14:13:01.851863

This seminar will discuss some of the compounded challenges of implementing a donor-driven reform and water resources management in Lebanon, a paradigmatic fragile, politically and socially divi...

Labour Mobility - Pacific Possible from 2023-12-13T14:13:01.847376

Labour mobility is increasingly recognized as critical for the Pacific island region. But opportunities to migrate are unevenly distributed across the Pacific, which includes both some of the mo...

Telecommunications regulation in Vanuatu – in conversation with Dalsie Baniala from 2023-12-13T14:13:01.840354

Dalsie Baniala is the first ni-Vanuatu to hold the position of Telecommunications and Radiocommunications Regulator (TRR). She sat down with Tess Newton Cain to discuss the work of her office an...

Part 1 - ODE aid evaluations: investing in teachers and learning from evaluations from 2023-12-13T14:13:01.836859

The Office of Development Effectiveness (ODE) is an operationally independent unit within the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) that measures and reports on the effectiveness of the...

Part 2 - ODE aid evaluations: investing in teachers and learning from evaluations from 2023-12-13T14:13:01.796884

The Office of Development Effectiveness (ODE) is an operationally independent unit within the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) that measures and reports on the effectiveness of the...

Strengthening public financial management reform in Pacific Island countries from 2023-12-13T14:13:01.774631

The World Bank, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT), and Overseas Development Institute (ODI) recently released a report that...

ADB@50: what does the future hold? from 2023-12-13T14:13:01.769313

To help mark the Asian Development Bank’s half-century, a panel of eminent speakers shared their insights on Asia-Pacific development over the past 50 years and the relevance of the institution ...

Challenging gender inequality: in conversation with UN Women Asia and the Pacific from 2023-12-13T14:13:01.764792

Gender inequality and violence against women are major development challenges facing the Asia-Pacific region. In a wide-ranging conversation hosted by UN Women National Committee Australia and t...

2016 PNG Update - Part 1 - Bruce Davis&Charles Abel Podcast from 2023-12-13T14:13:01.586461

In this podcast, part of a series of speeches from the recent PNG Update, you will hear Mr. Bruce Davis, Australian High Commissioner to PNG; reflect on the diversity and strategic importance of...

2016 PNG Update - Part 2 - ANU-UPNG Research Showcase Podcast from 2023-12-13T14:13:01.577650

In this podcast, part of a series of talks from the recent PNG Update, you will hear a collection of speeches showcasing the ANU-UPNG Partnership.

In the first part, Nelson Nema, Professo...

Advocating for women in Porgera: an interview with Everlyne Sap from 2023-12-13T14:13:01.565661

It is well known that gender-based and sexual violence are major problems facing Papua New Guinea. What is less widely recognized are the grassroots efforts underway to combat these problems, an...

AAC 2017 Opening Address: The Hon Julie Bishop MP from 2023-12-13T14:13:01.484599

Foreign Minister The Hon Julie Bishop MP delivered the opening address at the 2017 Australasian Aid Conference on February 15, held at Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National U...

World Development Report 2017: Governance and the Law from 2023-12-13T14:13:01.474324

Speakers: James Brumby, The World Bank; Luis Felipe Lopez Calva, The World Bank; Natasha Smith, DFAT; Dr Helen Szoke, Oxfam Australia; and Professor Veronica Taylor, ANU.

The Oceania laun...

Understanding how change happens - Duncan Green from 2023-12-13T14:13:01.461915

Human society is full of would-be ‘change agents’. A restless mix of
campaigners, lobbyists, and officials, both individuals and organisations, are set on transforming the world. They want...

Robin Davies interviews Inge Kaul Pt 1 from 2023-12-13T14:13:01.399957

Robin Davies, Associate Director of the Development Policy Centre, interviews German economist Inge Kaul, a leading thinker on global public goods. This interview forms the basis for a blog post...

Robin Davies interviews Inge Kaul Pt 2 from 2023-12-13T14:13:01.384363

Robin Davies, Associate Director of the Development Policy Centre, interviews German economist Inge Kaul, a leading thinker on global public goods. This interview forms the basis for a blog post...

The corrupt cannot fight corruption - Sam Koim from 2023-12-13T14:13:01.270306

Corruption is a pernicious societal disease that has devastating consequences that can cripple a nation. Although corruption has become a global challenge, its scale and prevalence in any countr...

Robin Davies interviews Gillian Mellsop from 2023-12-13T14:13:01.243363

Robin Davies interviews Gillian Mellsop on her career with UNICEF for the Aid Profiles series. Read the full profile at devpolicy.org/aidprofiles.

China and the United States as aid donors: past and future trajectories - Patrick Kilby from 2023-12-13T14:13:01.176738

The United States and China have followed nearly parallel paths as providers of foreign aid over the past seven decades. Although both countries’ aid programs were ostensibly aimed at developmen...

2017 Mitchell Oration - Development: towards 21st century approaches - Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala from 2023-12-13T14:13:01.167378

Are our current approaches to development cooperation fit for purpose to address contemporary challenges? How should development practice evolve to reflect 21st century priorities and knowledge?...

2018 Australasian Aid Conference - Plenary - Civil Society in Asian Development Cooperation from 2023-12-13T14:13:01.148072

The role of non-state actors in Asian-led development cooperation has been little discussed. Many assume South-South cooperation is government-to-government and focused on infrastructure. Howeve...

2018 Australasian Aid Conference - Panel 3a - Adaptive programming in theory and in practice from 2023-12-13T14:13:01.142142

This panel at the 2018 Australasian Aid Conference discussed the theory and practice of adaptive programming and how we can find ways to implement flexible programming within the context of an i...

2018 Australasian Aid Conference - Panel 4a - The aid apathy crisis from 2023-12-13T14:13:01.083022

Unprecedented levels of need, biggest aid cuts ever, humanitarian catastrophe — all too familiar to hear about in the news, but does the average person care? There are more media outlets and inf...

2018 Australasian Aid Conference - Panel 5a - Anti-corruption and development assistance from 2023-12-13T14:13:01.073515

Too often there has been a gap between academic analysis seeking to explain the how and why of corruption and the reality of activists trying to address it on the ground. We need to recognise no...

2018 Australasian Aid Conference - Plenary - 3MAP: the Three-Minute Aid Pitch from 2023-12-13T14:13:01.052612

What does Australian aid and international development policy need more or less of? This panel presents the best, the most original, the most transformational, the most innovative ideas to get m...

2018 Australasian Aid Conference - Plenary - Health security and medical research from 2023-12-13T14:13:01.049274

Ebola, MDR-TB, malaria. Infectious diseases will continue to threaten the health and well-being of people across our region and the world. The Australian government has announced a major regiona...

2018 Australasian Aid Conference - Panel 1a - Launch of'Inside the black box of political will' from 2023-12-13T14:13:01.045282

This panel provided a launch for 'Inside the black box of political will', which presents key findings from the past ten years of the Developmental Leadership Program’s (DLP) work. The panel als...

2018 Australasian Aid Conference - Panel 2a - Regional health security: what is Australia's role? from 2023-12-13T14:13:01.037912

Populations in the Asia Pacific region, and globally, face increasingly complex health threats, which call for stronger, locally relevant and high-quality health systems capable of addressing pr...

World Bank report launch: Australia’s Seasonal Worker Programme from 2023-12-13T14:13:00.941974

Australia’s Seasonal Worker Programme has delivered over A$144 million in net income gains to the Pacific, according to a new World Bank report. In this podcast of the report launch, Jesse Doyle...

PNG aid evaluation forum - response to the 2015 drought from 2023-12-13T14:13:00.897054

This aid evaluation forum on 30 May focused on the evaluation of Australia's response to the drought in PNG in 2015-16. Following opening remarks by Wendy Jarvie, a member of DFAT's Independent ...

PNG aid evaluation forum - support for the roads sector from 2023-12-13T14:13:00.890151

This aid evaluation forum on 30 May focused on the evaluation of Australian support for PNG's road infrastructure through the PNG Australia Transport Sector Support Program. The evaluation was p...

PNG aid evaluation forum - funding for multilaterals to strengthen PNG's health sector from 2023-12-13T14:13:00.884411

This aid evaluation forum on 30 May focused on the evaluation of funding from Australia's bilateral health aid program to multilateral organisations to increase and extend their support to the h...

Coups, fish and the media: in conversation with Sean Dorney from 2023-12-13T14:13:00.777576

Tess Newton Cain interviews Sean Dorney, who was a Foreign Correspondent with the ABC for four decades, about his experiences in the Pacific and significant changes in the region, including in A...

Australian Greens'aid and development policy: towards the 2019 election from 2023-12-13T14:13:00.759419

On 29 March, Senator Richard Di Natale, Leader of the Australian Greens, launched the Australian Greens' full aid and development policy for the 2019 federal election at a public event at ANU.

2019 Australasian Aid Conference - Keynote panel: Mental health and psychosocial disability from 2023-12-13T14:13:00.753989

This panel highlighted the need for an increased focus on mental health and psychosocial disability within the disability-inclusive development agenda, and provided some best-practice examples a...

2019 Australasian Aid Conference - Panel 5c: Prevention of sexual exploitation in the aid sector from 2023-12-13T14:13:00.746494

This panel brought together key players in the Australian aid sector to discuss best practice to approach the prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse in the aid sector, as well as safeguardi...

2019 Australasian Aid Conference - Panel 2a: Using a gender lens to influence impact finance from 2023-12-13T14:13:00.741873

This panel reviewed and reflected on the on-the-ground experience of using a gender lens in the impact investment ecosystem in Asia and the Pacific.

Panellists:
Amy Haddad, DFAT (Ch...

2019 Australasian Aid Conference - 2019 Mitchell Oration: Africa and the global landscape from 2023-12-13T14:13:00.736476

Donald Kaberuka, former President of the African Development Bank and former Minister of Finance for Rwanda, presented the 2019 Mitchell Oration on 19 February at the 2019 Australasian Aid Confe...

2019 Australasian Aid Conference - Keynote address: Contemporary challenges in development finance from 2023-12-13T14:13:00.688960

Masood Ahmed, President of the Center for Global Development, gave a keynote address at the 2019 Australasian Aid Conference on 20 February. He discussed growing debt in low-income countries, an...

Australian aid: building a robust performance culture from 2023-12-13T14:13:00.674332

On Wednesday 1 May, former World Bank Vice President Jim Adams presented his reflections on the performance of the Australian aid program. He is stepping down as Chair of DFAT's Independent Eval...

Development the Aga Khan way from 2023-12-13T14:13:00.662818

In November 2019, Professor Stephen Howes sat down with Michael Kocher and Matt Reed of the Aga Khan Foundation to discuss the work of the Foundation, one of the ten development arms of the Aga ...

2020 Australasian AID Conference - Keynote panel: Labour mobility from 2023-12-13T14:13:00.595956

The welfare gains from increasing cross-border labour mobility are likely to be several times larger than those from complete trade liberalisation, offering significant benefits to migrants, rec...

2020 Australasian AID Conference - Panel event - Pacific perspectives on the world from 2023-12-13T14:13:00.583675

In November 2018, the Australian Government announced the Pacific step-up, taking its engagement with the Pacific to a new level. Despite this shift, new research finds that many people in the P...

2020 Australasian AID Conference - Panel 5b: Australian aid and foreign policy from 2023-12-13T14:13:00.571925

In this panel event at the 2020 Australasian AID conference, John Langmore makes the case for stronger government and civil society commitment to conflict prevention and peacebuilding. Joanna Pr...

Worsening employment outcomes for Pacific technical graduate job-seekers, and one possible solution from 2023-12-13T14:13:00.546257

The Australia Pacific Training Coalition (APTC) is a major Australian government foreign aid initiative that commenced in 2008, that has spent over $350 million, and that has turned out over 15,...

2021 aid budget breakfast from 2021-05-20T05:00:48

On the eve of the 2021–22 Federal Budget, Stephen Howes set out three tests for Australia’s aid budget: Will there be any further increases in aid next year? Will the government sustain any aid ...

Change and continuity in Australian aid: what the aid flows show from 2021-03-22T06:35:26

Australian foreign aid has changed considerably in the last 20 years. Dr Terence Wood discusses the findings of a recently published Listen

Timor-Leste: 2021 economic survey from 2021-03-18T06:30

Charles Scheiner presents the 2021 economic survey of Timor-Leste, outlining  the current economic situation, particularly in relation to the state budget, and the dominance of the Petroleum Fun...

COVID-19: Economic costs and responses in the Pacific from 2020-08-28T03:45:04

The economic costs of COVID-19 continue to mount, globally and in the Pacific. But what is the damage in the Pacific, and how are Pacific governments responding? In this webinar, panellists expl...

How to meet Australian demand for Pacific foreign vocational workers from 2020-08-20T05:30:07

Historically, Australia has lacked a coherent policy to attract immigrants with less extensive formal training and education, despite the needs of its ageing population and labour market. 

Migration and household finances: How a different framing can improve thinking about migration from 2020-06-18T14:30:05

It is time to fundamentally reframe the research agenda on migration, remittances, payments and development. Many policymakers in the developing world, and researchers, tend to view migrant remi...

2020 Australasian AID Conference - Panel 5a: Working with men and boys to end violence against women from 2020-05-18T12:00:05

In the Pacific over the past three decades, women’s domestic violence services have led advocacy for policy for increased gender equality, women’s human rights and in engaging men and boys as al...

2020 Australasian AID Conference - Panel 1d: Global lessons from Indonesia’s anti-poverty programs from 2020-04-24T00:51:49

Offering social assistance programs has become an increasingly prominent strategy to alleviate poverty in many parts of the developing world, including in Indonesia. Drawing on Indonesia’s decad...

2020 Australasian AID Conference - Keynote address - The future of aid in the 21st century: five paradigm shifts from 2020-04-23T09:11:53

The language and theory of ‘aid’ is outdated. But something like it is still needed as the world faces huge common challenges, new and old. In this keynote address, Jonathan Glennie sets out a n...

2020 Australasian AID Conference - Keynote address - Alex Hawke, Minister for International Development and the Pacific from 2020-04-23T04:15:58

In this keynote address delivered on 19 February at the 2020 Australasian AID Conference, Alex Hawke, Minister for International Development and the Pacific, outlines the key trends in the Indo-...

2020 Australasian AID Conference - Keynote panel - Australian aid: PNG and transparency from 2020-03-30T04:54

Australia’s aid program to PNG is its biggest, its highest profile and most controversial. In this insightful keynote panel at the 2020 Australasian AID conference, Jonathan Pryke outlines the f...

2020 Australasian AID Conference - Keynote address: Women, peace and security from 2020-03-30T03:57:42

In this keynote address, Dr Radhika Coomaraswamy discusses the evolution of the women, peace and security agenda, from representation and participation of women in peace processes, transformativ...

2020 Australasian AID Conference - Keynote panel: Debating RCTs and impact evaluation from 2020-03-12T05:15:22

In 2019 the Nobel prize for economics went to three economists who have promoted the use and importance of Randomised Control Trials (RCTs) in development economics and interventions. But how us...

Men’s perspectives on addressing family and sexual violence in Papua New Guinea from 2019-11-26T04:33:22

Family is the basic foundation for social and economic development across the world, and particularly in Papua New Guinea (PNG). However, this foundation is often challenged by family and sexual...

Navigation by judgment: why and when top down management of foreign aid doesn’t work from 2019-07-24T07:47:37

Should aid programs micromanage their work? Or should they leave staff on the ground the space to decide for themselves? In this presentation Dan Honig will speak to the key findings of his book...

Tax pirates and tax fairness from 2019-04-17T01:43:16

In a talk at ANU on 12 April, Hon Dr Andrew Leigh MP discussed how a Labor government will tackle tax avoidance in Australia and our region, and announced a new policy initiative to help crack d...

2019 Australasian Aid Conference - Keynote panel: China's development cooperation in focus from 2019-04-10T00:00:02

Chinese development cooperation in Asia and the Pacific is growing rapidly. In this keynote panel at the 2019 Australasian Aid Conference, Chinese experts shared their insights on the rationale,...

2019 Australasian Aid Conference - Panel 3e: Impact of technology on developing Asia from 2019-03-31T23:00:02

Rapid advances in technology, including mobile communication, artificial intelligence, robotics, big data, psychographics, and biotech, are fundamentally changing economic, political, social, an...

2019 Australasian Aid Conference - Panel 3d: Local-level women's leadership for policy change from 2019-03-28T23:00:19

MAMPU is the Australia-Indonesia Partnership for Women's Empowerment and Gender Equality. This panel featured key partners of MAMPU - Indonesian civil society organisations that champion women's...

2019 Australasian Aid Conference - Panel 1e: Pacific labour mobility from 2019-03-28T03:25:24

With the recent establishment of the Pacific Labour Scheme and Pacific Labour Facility, and the reorientation and rebadging of the Australia Pacific Training Coalition and Pacific Labour Facilit...

Australian launch of WDR 2019: the changing nature of work from 2018-10-25T03:30:56

The nature of work is changing as a result of advances in technology. The World Bank's 2019 World Development report studies this and argued that in light of the disruption from technological ch...

Public work programs vs active labour market programs: evidence from Papua New Guinea from 2018-09-26T01:09:19

Governments and aid donors spend billions of dollars on active labour market programs and public works programs to improve the long term employability of youth by providing training, work placem...

Options for a National Integrity Commission — acting on new evidence on corruption and trust from 2018-09-18T00:00:31

Transparency International's Global Corruption Barometer survey was recently piloted in Australia. Analysis of this, along with the Australian Research Council-funded National Integrity System A...

The IFC, development finance and our region: in conversation with Nena Stoiljkovic from 2018-08-28T23:38:59

Nena Stoiljkovic, the International Finance Corporation's Vice President for Asia and the Pacific, recently made her first visit to Australia in this role. On 23 August, she spoke at a seminar a...

Navigating feminism and amplifying women’s voices in Vanuatu: in conversation with Yasmine Bjornum from 2018-08-16T23:59:53

Tess Newton Cain interviews Yasmine Bjornum, an activist for women's rights and empowerment in Vanuatu. They discussed Yasmine's background and journey thus far, including Sista, an online platf...

2018 PNG Update - Plenary Session 2: Economic developments from 2018-08-15T23:08:57

The second plenary of the 2018 PNG Update, held on 14-15 June at the University of PNG, focused on economic developments in the country. Mr Ian Ling-Stuckey, Shadow Minister for Treasury and Fin...

2018 PNG Update - Plenary Session 1 [excerpt]: Charles Abel's speech from 2018-08-15T23:08:55

PNG's Treasurer and Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Charles Abel, gave a keynote address at the 2018 PNG Update, held on 14-15 June at the University of PNG. He discussed the ANU-PNG relationship, opp...

2018 PNG Update - Parallel Session 2: Digital technology from 2018-08-15T03:39:14

Digital technology has various uses and much potential, but how is it being used in PNG and what lessons can be learnt? This panel at the 2018 PNG Update, held at the University of PNG on 14-15 ...

2018 PNG Update - Parallel Session 3: Governance and development II from 2018-08-15T03:35:01

There are various challenges for governance and development in PNG. In this panel at the 2018 PNG Update, held on 14-15 June at the University of PNG, presenters discussed cultivating a particip...

2018 PNG Update - Plenary Session 4: ANU-UPNG research showcase from 2018-08-15T03:27:17

The 2018 PNG Update was held at the University of PNG on 14-15 June. In this ANU-UPNG research showcase, we hear about some of the recent collaborative research by academics from the two univers...

2018 Pacific Update - Panel 6B - Environment from 2018-07-25T23:44:12

The Sustainable Development Goals are, in part, an encouragement for countries around the world to look after their environment and reduce the damage being done to ecosystems. This is particular...

2018 Pacific Update - Panel 5B - Energy from 2018-07-25T23:41:08

Many countries are exploring ways to shift their energy sources from fossil fuels to renewable energy, but how do renewable energy ambitions affect donor-funded rural electrification efforts in ...

2018 Pacific Update - Panel 4B - Tourism from 2018-07-25T23:36:14

Tourism contributes real resources to Pacific Island countries, but there is still much to be done. In this panel at the 2018 Pacific Update, held in Suva on 5 and 6 July. we heard about buildin...

2018 Pacific Update - Panel 3C - Climate change (student panel) from 2018-07-25T23:27:01

As the occurrence of extreme environmental events increases due to climate change, how do households in Solomon Islands respond, and how does this relate to household net worth? This panel at th...

2018 Pacific Update - Panel 3B - Partnerships in urban disaster preparedness, emergency and recovery from 2018-07-23T02:31

Urban-to-urban forced displacement is misunderstood and under-prioritised, explained presenters on this panel at the 2018 Pacific Update, which was held in Suva on 5 and 6 July. This session des...

2018 Pacific Update - Panel 2B - Climate change from 2018-07-23T02:26:53

Small island developing states, particularly many Pacific Island countries, are considered to be among the most at-risk regions in the world from climate change. In this panel at the 2018 Pacifi...

2018 Pacific Update - Panel 1C - Health from 2018-07-23T02:20:04

As part of the 2018 Pacific Update (held in Suva on 5 and 6 July), in this panel on health, we heard about spending better on health in the region, food and nutrition security, reorienting towar...

Pacific regionalism, climate finance, women in politics: in conversation with Hon Ralph Regenvanu from 2018-07-20T01:30:05

Tess Newton Cain caught up with the Hon Ralph Regenvanu on Vanuatu’s foreign policy priorities, challenges, and getting through to voters.

2018 Pacific Update - Panel 1B - Gender and social analysis from 2018-07-20T01:28:09

As part of the 2018 Pacific Update (held in Suva on 5 and 6 July), this panel on gender and social analysis included presentations on child protection systems in the Pacific, gender and politics...

2018 Mitchell Oration - Professor Sir Richard Feachem from 2018-07-16T02:24:54

The 2018 Mitchell Oration was delivered by Professor Sir Richard Feachem on 28 June at ANU. He spoke about reengineering the aid industry, the aid debate, some inconvenient truths, and the case ...

2018 Pacific Update - Panel 3a - Labour mobility from 2018-07-12T00:10:11

The 2018 Pacific Update was held on 5 and 6 July at the University of the South Pacific's Laucala Campus. In Panel 3a - Labour mobility, presenters discussed various aspects of labour mobility i...

2018 Aid budget breakfast from 2018-05-10T22:51:48

For the sixth edition of Devpolicy's aid budget breakfast on Wednesday 9 May 2018, we expanded our analysis, covering not only the Australian aid budget, but also aid trends in Australia and ove...

Australian aid evaluations: disability-inclusive development from 2018-04-15T23:51:29

This forum on 11 April focused on the recent DFAT evaluation of effectiveness and credibility of Australian support for advocacy and disability-inclusive development. The evaluation was presente...

Decent work in global supply chains from 2018-03-29T04:19:09

We are all touched by slavery, according to Ambassador Luis CdeBaca, one of the most decorated federal prosecutors in the United States. Former Ambassador-at-large and senior advisor to the Secr...

On writing, PNG literature and the voice of the diaspora: an interview with Rashmii Bell from 2018-03-29T04:12:06

In 2017, Rashmii Bell edited the first-ever anthology of writing by Papua New Guinean women: My Walk to Equality. It captures the daily challenges faced and positive contributions being made by ...

2018 Australasian Aid Conference - Panel 4b - The future of multilateral development banking from 2018-03-18T22:21:49

This session at the 2018 Australasian Aid Conference, presented the recent report by CGD's High-Level Panel on the Future of Multilateral Development Banking, offering a frank assessment of curr...

2018 Australasian Aid Conference - Panel 5d - Joint funding mechanisms for humanitarian response from 2018-03-18T22:10:14

In a time where the humanitarian funding gap is greater than ever before, humanitarian agencies are required to think innovatively and creatively about how to meet this need to meet current and...

2018 Australasian Aid Conference - Opening address from 2018-03-14T21:51:54

The 2018 Australasian Conference, held on 13-14 February at the Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU, was opened by Senator Penny Wong, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs. She discussed Labor'...

2018 Australasian Aid Conference - Panel 4c - LGBTIQ+ inclusion from 2018-03-14T21:48:08

This panel explored the rationale and methodology for LGBTIQ+ inclusion within humanitarian and development programs. In the decade since the Yogyakarta Principles were developed in 2007, global...

2018 Australasian Aid Conference - Keynote address - The strugglers from 2018-03-14T21:44:59

The 'strugglers', those who are not poor by conventional international poverty measures, but are nevertheless far from the middle class, are a large but neglected group in development discourse....

2018 Australasian Aid Conference - Lives in times of war, famine and civil unrest from 2018-03-14T21:42:04

This public lecture by Nick Danziger was a pre-conference event at the 2018 Australasian Aid Conference, held at Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU, on 13-14 February, and was organised by th...

The social contract, preferences for redistribution, and tax morale from 2018-01-22T22:30:43

Taxation is central to the social contract between citizens and the state. Yet little research has explored the relationship in developing countries between individual attitudes towards the soci...

Women, peace and security: a new global index from 2017-12-15T05:00:11

Dr Jeni Klugman, Managing Director, Georgetown Institute for Women Peace and Security, Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government’s Women in Public Policy Program, Harvard University; Hon Dr Sha...

The Social Observatory: integrating the social sciences for adaptive practice from 2017-12-15T04:53:17

The Social Observatory (SO) is a unit in the World Bank’s Development Research Group. It has worked for seven years with a $5 billion portfolio of community-based livelihoods projects in India. ...

Strengthening government systems and processes in PNG: ICAC and other issues - Eric Kwa from 2017-11-16T06:17:53

In this podcast of a seminar, Dr Eric Kwa discusses the agenda and approach being taken by PNG’s new government in relation to strengthening government systems and processes. Among other topics,...

Supporting economic reform in Vanuatu: the Governance for Growth program from 2017-11-12T22:33:31

The Governance for Growth (GfG) program in Vanuatu has been running for ten years, and is about to move into its third phase. Considered to be quite innovative when it was first implemented, the...

An interview with Muhannad Hadi, WFP from 2017-10-23T21:42:59

Sachini Muller interviews Muhannad Hadi, WFP Regional Director for the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia and Eastern Europe, discussing humanitarian crises in the region and what we can do...

PNG after the elections: politics from 2017-10-18T22:09:52

In this podcast, you'll hear a panel discussion on the 2017 Papua New Guinea National Elections. The elections, held in June and July, copped both criticism and praise — but mostly criticism. Ba...

PNG after the elections: the economy from 2017-10-12T22:52:53

Speakers: Nelson Nema, School of Business and Public Policy, University of PNG; Marcel Schröder, School of Business and Public Policy, University of PNG; Rohan Fox, Research Officer, Development...

Aid paradoxes in Afghanistan: building and undermining the state - Dr Nemat Bizhan. from 2017-09-19T05:39:53

Aid paradoxes in Afghanistan: building and undermining the state.

The relationship between aid and state building is highly complex and the effects of aid on weak states depend on donors’...

International intervention and local politics - book launch from 2017-08-25T01:17:04

International peace and statebuilding interventions have become ubiquitous since the 1990s. Their frequent failures, however, have prompted some researchers and practitioners to move beyond focu...

Australia's foreign aid dilemma - Jack Corbett from 2017-08-24T02:23:55

The Australian aid program faces a fundamental dilemma: how, in the absence of deep popular support, should it generate the political legitimacy required to safeguard its budget and administerin...

Financing global education: challenges and opportunities from 2017-08-17T01:05:32

Speaker: Alice Albright, Chief Executive Officer, Global Partnership for Education (GPE).

Investing in equitable, quality education systems has a powerful positive impact on economies and...

Australian aid evaluations Part 2: pandemics and emerging infectious diseases from 2017-08-17T01:00:20

Speakers: Staff from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Cardno, and The Australian National University.

This forum, which was jointly organised by the Development Policy Centre ...

Australian aid evaluations Part 1: basic education in Mindanao from 2017-08-17T00:57:23

Speakers: Staff from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Cardno, and The Australian National University.

This forum, which was jointly organised by the Development Policy Centre ...

Political settlements and their trajectories - Sue Ingram from 2017-08-17T00:54:39

Over the last decade, international development policies, most notably in the UK, have advanced ‘political settlements’ as a framing concept to guide statebuilding practice in fragile and confli...

Australia's role in the global fight against TB: an interview with Eric Goosby from 2017-07-12T00:43:33

In global health circles, Dr Eric Goosby’s reputation precedes him. A physician by training, he has been a leader in the development and implementation of HIV/AIDS policy for 30 years and is per...

My Father, My country - Q&A session of documentary screening with Dame Meg Taylor from 2017-06-26T22:54:25

In 1938 three Australian patrol officers – Jim Taylor, John Black and Pat Walsh – set off on an epic journey into the highlands of Papua New Guinea. Their purpose: to make contact with highland ...

Drought and famine relief in Papua New Guinea, 2015-2016 from 2017-06-13T01:32:48

PNG was severely impacted by the 2015-16 El Niño drought and, at some very high altitude locations, a series of destructive frosts. The drought and frosts impacted many rural villagers between m...

Why forests? Why now? The science, economics, and politics of tropical forests and climate change from 2017-05-18T04:11:20

Tropical forests are an undervalued asset in meeting the greatest global challenges of our time—averting climate change and promoting sustainable development. Despite their importance, tropical ...

2017 aid budget breakfast from 2017-05-12T04:14:27

This year is the first after three years of cuts in which the aid budget is slated to increase – by $84 million. While only enough to keep the aid budget growing with inflation, how will this ne...

Coping with high risk and uncertainty in aid policy design and practice - Adam Fforde from 2017-04-28T00:07:23

In this talk Professor Fforde will discuss how risk and uncertainty are best coped with in development practice. In doing this, he will examine the theories of change that underpin aid practitio...

Complexity in governments and markets - Vito Tanzi from 2017-04-23T23:28:29

Co-hosted by the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute and the Development Policy Centre.

As Governments expanded their activities over the years, pushing spending from around 10 per cent of ...

Papua New Guinea after the resource boom from 2017-04-12T23:46:55

This talk provides a survey of recent economic developments in Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) since the end of the resource boom in 2014. The specific focus of the discussion will be on the country’s ...

Democracy in Africa: past, present and future from 2017-04-12T23:38:51

Africa has a rich history; old and diverse cultures; and abundant and varied natural resources. Yet, a large majority of Africans remain poor, disenfranchised and oppressed. For five and half ce...

Australian aid evaluations: new aid evaluation policy, Indonesia roads and PNG health from 2017-04-12T00:36:08

In this podcast, you'll hear a discussion forum, jointly organised by the Development Policy Centre and the Office of Development Effectiveness (ODE), which is the latest in a series on the eval...

European Union development policy - Stefano Manservisi from 2017-03-28T23:36:11

Development aid from donor countries amounts to more than US $130 billion annually. More than half of that amount comes from European Union nations. However, sustainable development cannot be ac...

The humanitarian system in crisis - AAC 2017 from 2017-02-28T03:48:34

Plenary session, 2017 Australasian Aid Conference
Chair: Stephen Howes, ANU
Speakers: Robin Davies, ANU
Adam Kamradt-Scott, University of Sydney
Phoebe Wynn-Pope, Austral...

3MAP: The three-minute aid pitch - AAC 2017 from 2017-02-27T06:26:05

Plenary session, 2017 Australasian Aid Conference
Chair: Joel Negin

What does Australian aid need more of, or less of? What are its
ailments and what shape its cures? This pan...

Asian approaches to engaging the private sector in development cooperation - AAC2017 from 2017-02-26T10:33:04

Plenary session, 2017 Australasian Aid Conference
Speakers: Guo Peiyuan, General Manager, SynTao; Jeon Hyunjin, Manager, Corporate Social Responsibility Team, LG Electronics HQ; Simon Cram...

Now for the hard part: strategies for enhancing state capability for implementation - AAC2017 from 2017-02-26T09:15:25

Keynote address, 2017 Australasian Aid Conference, ANU
Speaker: Michael Woolcock, Lead Social Development Specialist, World Bank and Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard University

De...

The state of play on aid transparency: in discussion with Publish What You Fund from 2017-01-19T09:58:23

Robin Davies interviews Publish What You Fund’s London-based CEO, Rupert Simons and Elise Dufief, the organisation’s Research and Monitoring Manager, who is in the process of reviewing the metho...

Economic diversification and tax reform in Papua New Guinea - Sir Nagora Bogan Podcast from 2017-01-11T23:44:39

The independent Tax Review Committee (TRC) established by the Government of PNG recently completed a comprehensive review of the country’s tax system involving extensive and transparent stakehol...

Robin Davies interviews Bill Armstrong from 2016-12-12T00:17:12

For generations of young Australians with a passion for social justice, volunteering in developing or indigenous communities has been a rite of passage. Bill Armstrong has been deeply involved i...

Robin Davies interviews Phillip Passmore - Part 2 from 2016-11-28T23:45:55

During times of disaster, people naturally want to help. Unfortunately, they sometimes choose to do so in ways that do more harm and create more chaos: like emptying their medicine cabinets of e...

Robin Davies interviews Phillip Passmore - Part 1 from 2016-11-28T23:42:11

During times of disaster, people naturally want to help. Unfortunately, they sometimes choose to do so in ways that do more harm and create more chaos: like emptying their medicine cabinets of e...

From managing disasters to managing disaster risk: an interview with Robert Glasser from 2016-11-25T02:42:54

Disaster risk reduction, and its interface with climate risk management and adaptation, is a topic of increasing interest in international development, particularly for those working in the Paci...

The future of the World Bank from 2016-11-15T02:18:03

Speaker: Mr Kyle Peters, Interim Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice President, Operations, The World Bank.

The global community is facing extraordinary challeng...

Betty Lovai Keynote - Women in Leadership - 2016 PNG Update from 2016-11-15T02:14:16

In a keynote address at the 2016 PNG Update (held at the University of Papua New Guinea, November 3-4), Professor Betty Lovai, Dean of the UPNG School of Humanities and Social Science, discussed...

In conversation with Muhammad Musa, BRAC ED from 2016-11-13T22:36:26

Dr Muhammad Musa is the Executive Director of BRAC, the Bangladesh-based international NGO that has grown to become the world’s largest NGO (by number of employees). During a recent trip to Aust...

State of the PNG public sector - Mr John Ma'o Kali from 2016-10-26T02:59:51

In this podcast, Devpolicy welcomes John Ma’o Kali, CMG, OBE, Secretary, Department of Personnel Management, Papua New Guinea Government.

The Papua New Guinea’s Department of Personnel Ma...

An interview with Helen Evans from 2016-10-19T01:14:52

Robin Davies interviews Helen Evans for our Aid Profiles series, discussing her stellar career in global health. Read the full aid profile here: http://devpolicy.org/aidprofiles/2016/10/19/helen...

The Nauru dilemma from 2016-10-17T23:20:44

When asked by then Immigration Minister Tony Burke to provide services to asylum seeker children on Nauru in 2013, Save the Children Australia was faced with a clear dilemma. The Government’s po...

The intractable problem of landowner identification in the PNG LNG project: a historical perspective from 2016-09-12T01:08:32

In the second week of August this year, Papua New Guinea’s national newspapers reported that the customary landowners of the Hides gas field, the primary source of raw material for PNG’s Liquifi...

Financing responses to climate change in the Pacific from 2016-07-26T23:42:53

Climate finance and in particular adaptation finance has never been higher on the climate change agenda. The Paris Agreement in December 2015 confirmed the goal of providing US$100 billion each ...

Towards an integrated labour migration strategy in our Pacific neighbourhood from 2016-06-16T09:37

In this public lecture delivered on 2 June 2016, Professor Richard Bedford takes a long-term perspective, looking both backwards and forwards, at Pacific migration and the approach of Australia ...

Immigration detention: Australia and its neighbours from 2016-06-13T11:49

Australia currently holds or has contracted other countries to hold 3,052 people in immigration detention, including 50 children in Nauru (data from end March 2016). Most are from developing cou...

New approaches to tackling gender-based violence in Papua New Guinea from 2016-05-25T00:42:17

Speakers: Anna Solomon, Secretary, Department for Community Development and Religion, PNG; Denga Ilave, Operations Manager for Femili PNG; Kymberley Kepore, Chief Executive Officer of the Oil Se...

University reform in Papua New Guinea: the Unitech experience from 2016-05-25T00:36:40

Speaker: Dr Albert Schram, Vice-Chancellor of Papua New Guinea’s University of Technology.

Despite its age, the PNG university system is not yet mature. The challenges regarding the quant...

2015 New Zealand Aid Stakeholder Survey Launch from 2016-04-14T00:31:13

This is the recording of the launch of the 2015 New Zealand Stakeholder Survey in Wellington, NZ, in March 2016. Devpolicy's Terence Wood outlines the key findings of the survey, with discussion...

Playing the game: the memoirs of Sir Julius Chan from 2016-03-22T23:18:45

Speakers: The Hon Sir Julius Chan MP, GCL GCMG KBE CBE, Governor, New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea; His Excellency Mr Charles Lepani, Papua New Guinea’s High Commissioner to Australia; Mr ...

The cost of conflict: five years of the Syrian crisis from 2016-03-22T23:15:45

Speakers: Sahar Yassin, Humanitarian Advocacy Lead, World Vision Jordan; Emma Wanchap, Acting Manager of Policy and Government Relations, World Vision Australia; Kevin Boreham, Lecturer, ANU Col...

Interview with MSF's Abdul Wasey Mullahzada on family and sexual violence in PNG from 2016-03-17T03:52:25

Research Officer Ashlee Betteridge interviewed Abdul Wasey Mullahzada, outgoing Medical Coordinator for Médecins Sans Frontières‎ (MSF) in Papua New Guinea, about MSF's new report on the family ...

Interview with Dr Lama Mouakea, Syrian Family Planning Association from 2016-03-11T00:16:42

As the Syrian conflict reaches five years, much of the humanitarian world’s attention is focused on addressing the needs of the millions of refugees who have fled. But there are also many who ha...

AAC2016 - Panel - New perspectives on aid, recovery and statebuilding from 2016-02-28T08:41:30

This submitted panel, developed in conjunction with the Secure
Livelihoods Research Consortium (SLRC), discussed livelihoods, basic services and social protection in conflict-affected situ...

AAC2016 - Keynote Address - Kitty van der Heijden - Forging a new development future from 2016-02-24T00:08:08

Speaker: Kitty van der Heijden, Director, World Resources Institute Europe Office

Topic: After the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and with massive funding commitmen...

AAC2016 - Opening Address - Peter Varghese from 2016-02-24T00:05:24

Speaker: Peter Varghese is the Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Mr Varghese took up his position as Secretary on 3 December 2012. Prior to that, Mr Varghese held a wide ...

AAC2016 - Plenary - International climate change – Perspectives on Paris from 2016-02-24T00:03:07

Speakers: Frank Jotzo, Crawford School (chair); Howard Bamsey, Adjunct Professor, Regulatory Institutions Network, ANU and formerly Australia’s Special Envoy on Climate Change; Jaehyoung Lee, Pr...

AAC2016 - Plenary - What will the SDGs mean for Asia? from 2016-02-24T00:00:09

Speakers: Julia Newton-Howes, Chief Executive, CARE Australia; Eun Mee Kim, Dean and Professor, Graduate School of International Studies and Director, Institute for Development and Human Securit...

AAC2016 - Panel - Putting political thinking into development practice from 2016-02-20T02:17:39

Presentations: Designing context-relevant development programs: a problem-focused political economy analysis tool for aid practitioners (Lisa Denney, Overseas Development Institute); Everyday po...

AAC2016 - Panel - Australian Aid Policy from 2016-02-20T02:11:04

Speakers: Terence Wood, Research Fellow, Development Policy Centre, and co-author of the 2015 aid stakeholder survey; Richard Moore, Former Deputy Director General, AusAID; Marc Purcell, CEO of ...

2015 Survey of the Afghan People Australian Launch from 2016-02-19T01:41:21

Speakers: Gordon Hein, Timor Sharan, and Zack Warren, The Asia Foundation; Professor William Maley, Bell School, ANU; and Professor Stephen Howes, Development Policy Centre, Crawford School, ANU...

AAC2016 - Dinner Speech - Bob McMullan from 2016-02-19T01:32:06

Bob McMullan, former MP and Parliamentary Secretary for International Development, and current Executive Director of the EBRD, delivered the dinner speech at the 2016 Australasian Aid Conference...

AAC2016 - Keynote Address - Terence Wood - 2015 Australian Aid Stakeholder Survey Launch from 2016-02-19T01:31:18

Speaker: Terence Wood, Research Fellow, Development Policy Centre, ANU.

In 2013 the Development Policy Centre conducted the first ever comprehensive survey of Australia’s aid stakeholders...

Pacific Conversations - interview with Fe’iloakitau Kaho Tevi from 2016-02-18T23:11:27

In this installment of Pacific Conversations, Tess Newton Cain interviews Fe’iloakitau Kaho Tevi about green growth, activism & Pacific regionalism. Fe'i Tevi is a Port Vila-based sustainabl...

Humanitarian principles amid the militarisation of aid: an interview with Vincent Bernard from 2015-12-14T22:45:08

Vincent Bernard is the Geneva-based head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Forum for Law and Policy, and Editor-in-Chief of the International Review of the Red Cross. During...

Australian aid evaluations: Australian NGO Cooperation Program from 2015-12-13T22:05:05

On Wednesday 9 December 2015, the Development Policy Centre hosted a forum to discuss and debate two recent aid evaluations by DFAT’s Office of Development Effectiveness (ODE).

The event ...

Australian aid evaluations: non-core funding to the ADB and the World Bank from 2015-12-13T22:04:51

On Wednesday 9 December 2015, the Development Policy Centre hosted a forum to discuss and debate two recent aid evaluations by DFAT’s Office of Development Effectiveness (ODE).

The event ...

Results of Australian community-based climate change action grants in the Pacific and Southeast Asia from 2015-11-28T01:52:14

Speakers: Maria Cadahia-Perez, CARE International in PNG; Kate Duggan, Griffin Natural Resource Management; Cornelio Ase, Program and Humanitarian Manager, Oxfam Australia; Pia Treichel, Plan In...

What do student exam results tell us about free education policy in PNG? from 2015-11-28T01:46:41

Speaker: Dr Anthony Swan, Research Fellow, Development Policy Centre, Crawford School, ANU.

The centrepiece of government policy in Papua New Guinea over recent years has arguably been th...

Global health and the World Bank: recent events and developments from 2015-11-28T01:42:15

Speaker: Mr Keith Hansen, Vice President, Human Development, World Bank Group.

Recent health events have highlighted the interconnected nature of the world and the disparities that exist ...

Careers in Development 2015 from 2015-10-23T21:22:50

Speakers: Ms Kath Taplin, Senior Development Manager, Femili PNG; Mr Nat Burke, Policy Adviser, Advocacy & Justice for Children, World Vision International; Ms Alison Chartres, Assistant Sec...

PNG: pathways to gender parity from 2015-10-15T22:04:06

This panel discussion showcased high-profile speakers from Papua New Guinea and Australia. It explored current gender parity issues in Papua New Guinea, how business can work to adopt a diverse ...

Higher education issues and reform in Papua New Guinea from 2015-10-15T21:56:38

The Honourable Malakai Tabar MP discussed the issues and challenges that Papua New Guinea is currently facing in the higher education sector, and the reforms underway.

In 2007, The Hon Ma...

Funding and furthering the fight against TB: an interview with Lucica Ditiu from 2015-10-12T23:22:43

Dr Lucica Ditiu is the Executive Secretary of the Stop TB Partnership, a global partnership of more than 1300 partners – ranging from multilaterals to community- and faith-based organisations – ...

Do microcredit and family planning programs have their intended impact on poor households? from 2015-09-30T23:00:53

Speaker: Dr Jaikishan Desai, Senior Lecturer and Director of International Students, School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington.

In this public lecture, Dr Jaikishan Desai su...

Universal rights and quality of life: an interview with Tewodros Melesse from 2015-09-14T04:42:53

Tewodros Melesse is the Director-General of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, a federation of 152 national member associations, working in 170 countries, focused on achieving univ...

Legitimate self-interest and the campaign for aid: an interview with Rev Joel Edwards from 2015-08-24T02:33:03

The Reverend Dr Joel Edwards is the former International Director of Micah Challenge, a global Christian response to extreme poverty. He recently sat down with Camilla Burkot after a panel discu...

The evolving role of multilateralism in ending hunger and malnutrition from 2015-08-20T00:23:25

Speaker: Ms Gerda Verburg, Chair of the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) and of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Council on Food Security and Nutrition.

Although enough food is bei...