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Category - Australian aid
Learning from UN ‘innovation spaces’
A working paper published in mid March by the University of Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre (RSC)...
Pacific spying: allegations and implications
The recent revelation in the media from documents leaked by Edward Snowden, a former employee of...
Are we ready for an Asia-Pacific influenza outbreak?
The West African Ebola outbreak largely took the world by surprise. As a result, the global...
DAC aid held steady in 2014
Aid provided in 2014 by the member countries of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC)...
What the state of politics in Solomon Islands means for aid
In three previous blog posts I’ve discussed elections in Solomon Islands, electoral politics...
Australia gets on board the AIIB – but with caveats
Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced on Sunday that Australia would be signing a Memorandum of...
Up and running – DFAT’s innovationXchange
Describing it as “a new initiative to seek new ways of financing aid, to act as a catalyst for new...
Funding for TB and malaria product development partnerships:...
While the launch of DFAT’s own ‘innovation hub’ captured the limelight on 23 March, foreign...
Putting gender at the centre of Australian aid
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop is right to focus Australian aid on women and children, but the...