Microfinance has faced heavy scrutiny over the years, generating important debate and learning for...
Category - Aid effectiveness
Strengthening local actors key to effective disaster response
Each year, the World Disasters Report – produced by the International Federation of Red Cross and...
Fifty years of coordination against the odds: a history of ACFID
The challenges of coordinating NGOs and development actors are well documented. We see this nearly...
In-line insights: five years in Vanimo
Last year, in conjunction with a trip to Port Moresby, I read The Mountain by Drusilla Modjeska and...
The 2015 ANZ aid stakeholder survey: we want to hear from you
In 2013, we conducted the first Australian aid stakeholder survey. 356 non-government and...
Humanitarian aid in 2015: great challenges but greater...
On World Humanitarian Day 2015, global statistics paint a grim picture. Last year 107 million...
Papua New Guinea’s aid program in the region
Although it is not large by global standards, Papua New Guinea’s provision of aid to other Pacific...
Capacity building: how to do better
In my previous post, I argued that efforts by the donor community at capacity building had not in...
Capacity building: important but unsuccessful
Capacity building is a long-standing aspect of development efforts that I think we can agree has...
New US government website ups the ante on aid transparency
ForeignAssistance.gov, the US government’s central repository to consolidate official information...