COVID-19 has killed millions of people globally. It has overwhelmed health services. It has brought economies to a standstill. Amidst all this, New Zealand and Australia have been very fortunate so far. Given our good fortune, you would hope we’d be increasing aid, and doing our best to help...
Category - Aid transparency
Research in international development: bridging the gap between production and use
The recent awarding of the Nobel Prize to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer for their work in developing experimental research methods to assess the impact of development interventions might be seen as a testament to the important role of research in improving development practice...
Demographic and Health Surveys: “smart aid”
Papua New Guinea (PNG) has recently released its latest Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) Key Indicators. The DHS report itself explains the purpose was, “to obtain and provide information on basic indicators of social progress including fertility, childhood mortality, reproductive and child...
New Zealand’s aid a year after shifting the dial
Last year Foreign Minister Winston Peters’ caused rare attention to international development issues, with solid aid increases alongside the “Shifting the Dial” ‘Pacific Reset’. Now that the ruckus has settled, it is a good time to take a look at what’s happened since. Where is Minister Peters and...
A step forward for aid transparency in the Pacific
The Devpolicy Blog has discussed the need for enhanced aid transparency in aid activities since its...
The delicate dance of gender equality in Australia’s foreign...
The Australian Government wants global gender equality. The Foreign Minister has championed it...
Measuring Australia’s foreign aid generosity, from Menzies to...
Conventionally, and for good reasons, the ratio of aid to Gross National Income (GNI) is the...
Newsletter: AAC reaching capacity | PNG in 2017 | Global...
Last chance for 2017 AAC! Registrations are going quickly for the 2017 Australasian Aid Conference...
The ingredients of aid transparency: political commitment...
We will make the full range of information on publicly funded development activities, their...
A closer look at the 2016 Australian aid transparency audit
In the first post in this two-part series, we presented the headline findings from our 2016...