The poor AusAID Engage blog never really seemed to achieve a lot of audience traction, but it was...
Category - Aid effectiveness
Finding common ground: the Senate inquiry on Australian aid
Yesterday the Senate released its report on Australia’s aid program, with 24 main recommendations...
Cooling the hype on cash transfers
The charity GiveDirectly has been generating a lot of hype over the past few years for turning the...
Parliamentary inquiry to look at rights of women and girls in...
An inquiry by the Human Rights Subcommittee of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs...
The old Australia-UK aid partnership is new again
As announced last week by Australian foreign minister Julie Bishop, Australia and the UK have...
The rapid UK Haiyan review: could Australia do the same?
The UK’s Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) this month released a review of DFID’s...
DFAT to deregulate aid delivery
According to new DFAT instructions, apparently agreed to late last year, but still not released...
New evidence on why some development projects fail
17 percent of development projects at both the World Bank [pdf] (between 2009-11) and the...
Understanding Aid for Trade part two: a critique
In part one of this post, I attempted to provide an overview of what Aid for Trade is, how it works...
Understanding Aid for Trade part one: a dummy’s guide
Over the past months, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has highlighted the centrality of “Aid for...