2017 aid budget breakfast

This year is the first after three years of cuts in which the aid budget is slated to increase – by $84 million. While only enough to keep the aid budget growing with inflation, how will this new money be spent? Health funding has been almost halved in real terms over the last four years. Will the government release information on its long-awaited health security initiative? At this year’s aid budget breakfast, we will also review the 2016 Performance of Australian Aid report and the 2015-16 Aid Program Performance Reports. Join the morning after the budget for the fifth annual aid budget breakfast to learn what the 2017-18 budget means for the future of Australian aid. Speakers are included Professor Stephen Howes, Director of the Development Policy Centre, Crawford School, ANU; Jacqui De Lacy, Vice President of Global Strategy, Abt Associates; and Dr Anthony Swan, Research Fellow at the Development Policy Centre, Crawford School, ANU. Livestream available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zdUnYvoH2c Devpolicy Talks is the podcast of the Australian National University's Development Policy Centre. Read and subscribe to our daily blogs at devpolicy.org.Learn more about our research and join our public events at devpolicy.anu.edu.au.Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram for latest updates on our blogs, research and events.You can send us feedback, and ideas for episodes too, to [email protected].