Findings from World Vision’s Out of Time report reinforce predictions of an emerging global poverty and food insecurity crisis. According to the United Nations, COVID-19 could push a further 34 million people into extreme poverty by 2020 and an additional 130 million people by 2030. Global health...
President Trump’s lack of leadership in the international fight against COVID-19, taken to the extreme by his decision to leave the World Health Organisation (WHO) in the midst of the greatest global health emergency in a century, has damaged the reputation of the United States worldwide. This is...
The UK’s decision to merge the Department for International Development (DFID) with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has rekindled interest in the most recent model for such a move, Australia’s 2013–14 integration of AusAID into DFAT. The parallels are obvious. In both cases a recently...
As New Zealand has relaxed its COVID-19 restrictions, attention has turned to getting several thousand Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) scheme workers, many of whom have been in the country for more than nine months, back home to their families and communities in the Pacific. The New Zealand...
In early June, after two months of lockdown due to the COVID-19 global pandemic, New Zealand moved...
Nepal’s struggle with the COVID-19 crisis has been difficult. For many weeks, very few cases had...
With the rapid world change we are seeing in regards to COVID-19, new ways of doing things are...
Trilateral (or triangular as some prefer to call it) cooperation has become one of the latest...
In his blog of 4 June, Stephen Howes said that there was “a lot to like” about DFAT’s new...
Have the past few months of economic hardship caused by COVID-19 made Australians more hostile to...
