These are edited remarks from a panel discussion on aid effectiveness at the 2023 Australasian AID Conference, providing a historical perspective on performance management and evaluation in the Australian aid program. There is so much that could be said, so many different perspectives that could be...
Category - Aid effectiveness
Including civil society in a whole-of-nation approach to international policy
Key development, diplomacy and defence policies have called for Australia to take a “whole-of-nation” approach to its engagement with the world. But what does this look like? Moving beyond a whole-of-government approach to a whole-of-nation approach involves a range of other actors from fields...
Harold Mitchell: thank you and vale
The death of “adman” and philanthropist Harold Mitchell AC on February 10 has been widely mourned, as well it should be. Australia’s leaders from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese down have recorded their tributes to this larger-than-life character, whose achievements are all the more remarkable for...
Collier on case studies in state fragility
This is an edited version of Paul Collier’s remarks at the launch of the edited volume, State Fragility: Case Studies and Comparisons, at the 2023 Australasian Aid Conference. I have a few things to discuss. First, I want us to be pioneers of something that is starting to happen across the...
The case for budget support
There is no one good way to give foreign aid. Simply giving individuals money is all the rage at...
From chaos to reform in PNG: lessons from Morauta’s leadership
In the wake of the recent declaration of a state of emergency in Papua New Guinea, a sense of anger...
Development partnership plans: pitfalls and potential
A key element of the Australian government’s new international development policy, released in...
What better data can tell us about Australian aid and women
In 2007, the then Minister for Foreign Affairs Alexander Downer claimed that gender equality was...
Disentangling localisation: an imperative to uphold human dignity
This is an edited extract from the 2023 Mitchell Oration delivered by Dr Esperanza Martinez at the...
The unintended consequences of aid
Thomas Malthus is often trotted out as an example of an early, mean-spirited environmentalist. This...