The Development Policy Centre has run stakeholder surveys of aid experts in 2013, 2015 and 2018. These surveys provide a detailed picture of how the quality of the Australian Government aid program is perceived by expert aid practitioners. The 2013 Stakeholder Survey established a benchmark. The...
Category - Australian government aid
EFIC reform: a bad idea
Prime Minister Morrison’s November 2018 Townsville speech made two announcements about infrastructure for the Pacific. But only one has received any attention: the $2 billion Australian Infrastructure Financing Facility for the Pacific or AIFFP. Such a facility had already been suggested by Labor...
What’s behind the fall in donations to NGOs?
Australian aid NGOs’ revenue fell from 2015 to 2017 (you can see the fall in this chart). Much of this fall stemmed from a drop in donations. You can see the drop in donations in the chart below. It’s not a collapse, but donations have fallen two years in a row, which is unusual. Total...
An Australian checklist for conflict-related crises
More countries are experiencing armed conflict today than at any time in the past 30 years. In this decade alone, more than half a million civilians have been killed in Syria, conflict in Yemen has left more than 20 million people in need of humanitarian assistance, and violence in Myanmar in 2017...
What’s more effective in raising support for aid, kindness or...
Does emphasising the benefits aid brings to Australia make Australians more positively disposed to...
Millions neglected and in need, but where is Australia’s...
At the start of this year, an estimated 13.1 million people were in need of humanitarian assistance...
Australian aid to PNG
It takes 15 minutes in a tinny to cross from Australia to Papua New Guinea. Boigu Island in the...
Aid and soft power: handle with care
DFAT is currently carrying out a review into soft power in Australia’s foreign policy. Aid and...
More than a target; diversity as a development effectiveness...
Our aid program represents Australia to the world and, as such, it needs to embrace our nation’s...
Other donors are doing BI… why not Australia?
Behavioural insights (BI) is the application of behavioural economics, psychology, anthropology and...