April 2010
In April 2009, Prime Ministers Somare and Rudd agreed to undertake a review of the PNG‐Australia Treaty on Development Cooperation (1999), which guides the Australian aid program to PNG. The terms of reference for this exercise, attached at Annex 2, were agreed between the two Governments in June 2009. The overall aim of the review is “to consider and recommend how Australia’s aid can most effectively contribute to PNG’s current, medium and long‐term development priorities.”
An Independent Review Team was commissioned. This consisted of Associate Professor Eric Kwa, the nominee of the Government of Papua New Guinea, Professor Stephen Howes, the nominee of the Government of Australia and Dr Soe Lin, the joint nominee of the two Governments. This is their report.
Howes, S. Kwa, E. & Lin, S. 2010, ‘Review of the PNG-Australia Development Cooperation Treaty (1999)’, Report, Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University.
