Last chance for 2017 AAC!
Registrations are going quickly for the 2017 Australasian Aid Conference. If you are planning to attend and haven’t registered yet, now is the time to do so – we expect the conference will sell out again. The highlights will include addresses by Foreign Minister Julie Bishop and a keynote by World Bank social development specialist Michael Woolcock, as well as the presentation of the Mitchell Humanitarian Award at the conference dinner.
We’d also like to remind conference attendees that the Aid Supplier Conference, to be held on Friday 17 February, also at ANU, is a separate event organised by DFAT. For more information, contact aidsupplierconference@dfat.gov.au.
PNG in 2017
Find out what 2017 has in store for PNG in terms of both economics and politics. Paul Flanagan predicts another tough economic year, while Bal Kama points to conflicting trends around money politics and voter awareness in the lead up to the June elections.
Global transparency portal
In a recent blog, Robin Davies summarizes a discussion with Rupert Simons, CEO of global campaign for aid transparency Publish What You Fund. Simons notes that the aid effectiveness agenda, including the aid transparency agenda, has ‘gone off the boil internationally’. Davies argues for a global transparency portal to make use of data now potentially available, but currently difficult to access, through the International Aid Transparency Initiative. If you want more, Simons will be speaking at the 2017 Australasian Aid Conference and check out the podcast here.
Devpolicy Blog reader poll
Many thanks to everyone who responded to the request in our last newsletter to fill out our Devpolicy Blog reader poll. We’re eager for your feedback to help us improve the blog, so if you haven’t done so already please fill it out today here. The poll will close on 31 January.
Upcoming events
World Development Report 2017: Governance and the Law
5 – 6.30pm, Tuesday 14 February, Molonglo Theatre, Crawford School, ANU. Details here.
Australasian Aid Conference 2017
14 – 16 February, Crawford School, ANU. Event details here.
Blog highlights
Vanuatu’s seasonal worker rise
PFM in the Pacific: in-line equivocation
The awkwardness of moral saints
Latest podcasts
The state of aid transparency: in discussion with Publish What You Fund
On the blog
PNG in 2017: a year of redefining democracy? By Bal Kama
The Seasonal Worker Program: who is coming to Australia? By Henry Sherrell
Papua New Guinea stumbles to an election by Paul Flanagan
Lessons from public financial management reforms in the Pacific By Nematullah Bizhan
The ingredients of aid transparency: political commitment, consumer pressure, the right tools by Robin Davies
First in class: PNG student migration to Australia by Henry Sherrell and Stephen Howes
The awkwardness of moral saints by Stephen Howes
Priced out of the market: informal settlements in Honiara, Solomon Islands by Luke Kiddle and Meg Keen
Feminist innovations in the Pacific: the inaugural Pacific Feminist Forum by Jane Alver
In brief
Fortnightly links: globalisation, Gambia, cash is best, corruption, Trump, and more
This is the fortnightly newsletter of the Development Policy Centre at Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University, published every second Friday.
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