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Joining the African Development Bank: practicalities and politics
Sixteen years ago, the Simons Review of Australia’s aid program had nothing much to say about Australian aid to Africa and nothing at all to say about Australia’s absence from the African Development...
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How to cut the multilateral aid budget
On 5 September, when the Coalition released its pre-election costings, the Treasurer-to-be Joe Hockey said more than once that the Coalition in government would direct less aid to multilateral...
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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 Trade” to the new government’s development and foreign policy agenda. In an August 8 debate with Bob Carr,...
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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 and if it works. In part two, I will explore some of the challenges that a focus on Aid for Trade...
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The new aid paradigm: is it new, and what does it do for aid reform?
Julie Bishop calls it the new aid paradigm: the Coalition’s new aid program strategy and performance framework. The first thing to say about it is that it is not that new. That is not a criticism. It...
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Aid to Africa in an Indo-Pacific aid program
In describing the region of the world in which Australia is focused in terms of aid, the Foreign Minister has assiduously adhered to the clunky “Indian Ocean Asia-Pacific”. In her speech to the...
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Scholarships and the aid program (part one): waste of money or effective aid?
This exploration of scholarships in the Australian aid program comes in three parts. The first looks at the context of Australian aid-funded scholarships. The second reveals results from a DFAT-funded...
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Scholarships and the aid program (part two): emerging results of research...
In part one of this series of posts, I examined the considerable role that scholarships play in the Australian aid program and highlighted some important questions around effectiveness, recruitment and...
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Scholarships and the aid program (part three): future directions for a...
In part two of this series, I outlined some very positive findings from our research, funded by the Australian Development Research Awards Scheme (ADRAS), into scholarship alumni in Kenya, Uganda and...
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Five lessons for Australian aid from the Ebola crisis
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has claimed more than 4000 lives and shows little sign of slowing down. The World Health Organization has asserted that US $1 billion is needed to stop the epidemic....
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Ten reasons not to miss this year’s aid conference
We held our first Australasian Aid Conference a year ago. In fact, we called it a workshop, because we thought it would be a rather small affair. Instead, we got 50 papers and 250 participants, and...
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Do we need the WHO?
As the struggle to contain Ebola finally ramped up in late 2014, there were persistent critiques of the World Health Organization’s slow response to the epidemic ravaging West Africa. Commentators...
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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 response to the epidemic – which has now killed 10,000 people – was slow. Despite the pleas of Doctors...
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Requiem for Australia’s aid program in Africa
The Australian aid program to Africa is – for all intents and purposes – no more. The Africa program has been sliding down a cliff top for a couple years and it has now hit the ground with a thud. From...
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DFAT’s new health strategy: a new approach?
The Australian government recently released its 2015-2020 Health for Development Strategy. This comes on the back of the agriculture and food security strategy released in February. It’s great to...
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A new model of health workforce training
A new model of health workforce training has the potential to be an innovative, cost-effective, catalytic initiative that can build national health systems, empower women and make itself obsolete in a...
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Scale, value and innovation: a new model of health workforce training
In an earlier post, I outlined the merit of an alternative model of training that might replace elements of the hefty Australian scholarship program. Building on the model of the innovative,...
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2016 Australasian Aid Conference: third time’s the charm
It’s not often that Canberra can be described as an international crossroads. But on February 10-11 it will be a hotbed of discussion when researchers and practitioners from across Asia, the Pacific,...
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