Category - Aid transparency

Aid and development

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...

Aid and development

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...