New data compiled by the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) and the Development Policy Centre show that Australians’ donations to development NGOs increased in 2021. (2021 is the most recent year we have data for owing to the time required for organisations to compile...
Category - Australian non-government aid
Australia’s Emergency Action Alliance
Innovation in the aid and development sector is often found at the agency level but rarely is transformative across the sector. The recently created Emergency Action Alliance (EAA) represents an important exception, bringing together 15 of many of the best-known Australian NGOs in a creative...
What happened to NGO donations in the first year of COVID-19?
One night, in the middle of the 2020 Australasian Aid Conference, hand sanitister stations sprouted up around ANU. They looked both stern and uncertain. The first time I saw one, I paused and thought, “this must be because of that coronavirus thing”. Then I wondered if I was actually...
Useful outsiders – how can external actors support authentic locally led development?
The COVID-19 pandemic and its associated border closures have thrown the international development industry into turmoil. An industry conventionally reliant on ‘fly-in fly-out’ consultants has had to face a reckoning in terms of the sustainability of its modus operandi. Central to this reckoning is...
Trust in Australian development NGOs is on the rise
Public trust matters for development NGOs. They work in faraway lands. Their impacts aren’t...
What guides Australian NGOs: need or the national interest?
If you’re an aid NGO, government money is tempting. It affords the chance to help more people, or...
Do Australian NGOs work in too many countries?
In a recent blog I argued that the Australian government gives aid to too many countries. It was an...
The news – good, bad and uncertain – on NGO donations
In one way, 2019 was a good year for Australia’s Development NGOs. The Development Policy Centre...
COVID-19: an opportunity to empower
Globally, we are witnessing a movement making it clear that Black voices demand to be heard, and...
Oxfam Australia’s woes: a sign of the times?
Oxfam Australia is a very important part of this country’s international development sector...