Professor Stephen Howes presents Devpolicy’s analysis of the 2021 aid budget and what it means for Australia, for the region and for the development sector.

Analysis of graduate tracer surveys show that employment outcomes for APTC graduates have worsened.

New analysis of Australian aid flows provides vital clues in the puzzle of understanding donor performance.

Timor-Leste is one of the most petroleum-export dependent countries in the world. However, oil and gas revenues will end soon, and the Petroleum Fund may only carry the country for another decade. Time is running out for decisions critical to the nation’s future.

Panellists discuss some of the findings from Pacific Covid Economic Database compiled by the Development Policy Centre to aid in the analysis of Pacific economic responses to COVID-19.

Recent moves to develop a coherent policy to attract immigrants with less extensive formal training and education to Australia have thrown up numerous questions, such as how many vocational workers are needed, and how to link skill creation with skill mobility.

Timothy Ogden discusses some of the new and alternative research questions that emerge from the shift of perspective on remittances, from windfall income to return on investment.

Diplomacy, aid, development and foreign policy intersect in this panel event that explores the role of diplomatic engagement in reducing violent conflict, a feminist approach to foreign policy, food aid and the expansion of Australia's foreign aid program, and the challenges associated with balanced public reporting on aid program performance.

What is the role of male leadership and male advocates in working with men to effect changes in gender equality and ending violence against women? This engaging panel at the 2020 Australasian AID Conference share their insights.

This panel event at the 2020 Australasian Aid Conference outlines the key findings of new research that analyses how Pacific islanders from Fiji, Vanuatu, and the Solomon Islands perceive Australians and the government’s policies and interventions in the Pacific.

This panel event at the 2020 Australasian AID Conference outlines the case for international labour mobility, looks at the progress and lessons learned from Australia’s new Pacific Labour Scheme, and provides an overview and initial assessment of labour mobility reforms in Papua New Guinea.

Drawing on Indonesia’s decades-long experience in developing social assistance programs, this keynote panel review the effectiveness of targeted social protection programs, whether they generate the intended impact on poverty reduction, and how randomised evaluation can be used to generate evidence for effective policies.

Jonathan Glennie argues that the ‘foreign aid’ mentality is outdated and sets out a new approach for the 21st century: global public investment.

Alex Hawke, Minister for International Development and the Pacific, discusses the key trends in the Indo-Pacific region affecting Australia’s development partners and shaping its new international development policy.

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, panellists discuss a range of issues on Australian aid to PNG and transparency.

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, transformative justice and women combatants to livelihoods and empowerment of women in the post-conflict era and the role women play, and can play, in the prevention of conflict.

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 useful are RCTs in the real world of development assistance? And what more generally needs to be done to improve the quality and impact of impact evaluations, and to promote learning in aid? Panellists: The Hon Dr Andrew Leigh MP, Member for Fenner, ACT Dr Lant Pritchett, Research Director, RISE...

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 Khan Development Network. Professor Stephen Howes is the Director of the Development Policy Centre at the Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University Michael Kocher is the global General Manager of the Aga Khan Foundation Matt Reed is Chief Executive Officer of the Aga Khan...

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 violence (FSV). In order to support policymaking that fosters healthy, safe and secure families, research was conducted in Lae in 2018 and 2019 to better understand men’s and women’s perspectives of FSV. Joshua Goa and Dunstan Lawihin of the University of Papua New Guinea discuss the research...