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...
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...
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...
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...
Does emphasising the benefits aid brings to Australia make Australians more positively disposed to...
At the start of this year, an estimated 13.1 million people were in need of humanitarian assistance...
It takes 15 minutes in a tinny to cross from Australia to Papua New Guinea. Boigu Island in the...
DFAT is currently carrying out a review into soft power in Australia’s foreign policy. Aid and...
Our aid program represents Australia to the world and, as such, it needs to embrace our nation’s...
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