Australian aid evaluations: program performance and humanitarian responses


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Africa humanitarian food aid 21As in past years, the Development Policy Centre will host a forum to discuss and debate recent Australian aid evaluations. This year we will focus on the new annual report on Australian aid Performance of Australian Aid 2013-14 and on two recent evaluations from the Office of Development Effectiveness (ODE) on Australia’s responses to humanitarian crises in the Horn of Africa and Syria. We’ll also hear from the Head of ODE and the Chair of the ODE’s Independent Evaluation Committee.

Speakers include:

  • Mr Jim Adams Chair of DFAT’s Independent Evaluation Committee and former World Bank Vice President.
  • Mr Scott Dawson First Assistant Secretary, Contracting and Aid Management Division, DFAT.
  • Mr Simon Ernst Office of Development Effectiveness, DFAT.
  • Professor Stephen Howes Director of the Development Policy Centre and Professor of Economics, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU.
  • Mr Jamie Isbister Acting First Assistant Secretary of the Humanitarian Division, DFAT.
  • Dr Karen Ovington Assistant Director for the Office of Development Effectiveness, DFAT.
  • Mr Dereck Rooken-Smith Assistant Secretary for the Office of Development Effectiveness, DFAT
  • Ms Joanna Spratt PhD Candidate, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU.

This forum is presented by the Development Policy Centre at Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University.

You can access the program here.

**Please note: the time for this event has changed**

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Macarena Rojas

Macarena Rojas is a Program Officer at the Development Policy Centre. She studied journalism and has a background in program coordination. She holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Studies from The Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.

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