One of the building blocks of the Australian aid program, or most any aid program for that matter, are country strategies. These documents explain or, in the best case determine, what aid projects are done in which country. AusAID wasn’t good at getting country strategies out. DFAT produced a...
The most recent data release on Working Holiday Makers showed that the number of backpackers travelling to Australia had fallen for the sixth year in a row. This didn’t stop Immigration Minister David Coleman and Trade Minister Simon Birmingham putting a positive spin on the numbers by...
Today and tomorrow (October 9th and 10th) Lyon in France will play host to the Global Fund Sixth Replenishment Conference, which will raise funds for the period 2020 to 2022. It could be a very awkward time for Australia. The Global Fund provides resources to poor countries to combat AIDS...
A report on the InnovationXChange (iXc) by Results for Development or R4D, a US NGO, “Experimentation, partnership and learning: insights from a review of the first three years of DFAT’s innovationXchange” is prominently linked from both the iXc website and the R4D one. I had done...
International official development organisations – entities such as the World Bank and the...
One would hope the leader of a political party that exists for the express purpose of supporting...
International development is a highly challenging sector with a range of different approaches used...
To use an appropriately agricultural metaphor, 2018 was a bumper year for the Australian Seasonal...
Last week marked the commencement of the Australian Infrastructure Financing Facility for the...
Nearly thirty years ago, on 20 November 1989, world leaders gathered at the United Nations to make...
