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Murder in the Pacific: Matt Francis on aid and agency in Vanuatu
The Memorandum of Understanding podcast archive is now in this feed, filed under 2021
Humanitarianism and public health: an interview with Rick Brennan
2026 aid budget breakfast
Navigating China and the Global South: a conversation with Eric Olander
Pacific democracy: global indices and lived realities
Global public goods and the architecture of cooperation: a conversation with Inge Kaul
Water, climate and adaptation: a conversation with Dr Aditi Mukherji
Youth uprisings: understanding the protests in Indonesia and Nepal
From Vanuatu's challenges to Melanesian cooperation: a conversation with Gregoire Nimbtik
From serendipity to global impact: a conversation with Glenn Denning
The Pacific Engagement Visa: what you need to know about the 2025 ballot
US-Pacific relations under Trump: a conversation with Judith Cefkin
Managing labour mobility for Solomon Islands: a conversation with Christina Marau
Uncovering Kiribati: Rimon Rimon on press freedom in the Pacific
Fiji's economic future: a conversation with Deputy Prime Minister Biman Prasad
Fighting for Every Breath: a conversation with Leith Greenslade
Solving wicked humanitarian problems: a conversation with Dr Helen Durham AO
Intelligence for good: Jelle Postma on unveiling anti-rights actors
2025 federal election special
Safeguarding crop diversity: a conversation with Stefan Schmitz
Stability amidst uncertainty: 2025 Australian aid budget analysis
Asif Saleh on BRAC as an innovative social conglomerate
Global health in crisis: a conversation with Nina Schwalbe
Australasian AID Conference: looking forward to AAC2025
Agnes Kalibata on transforming African agriculture
Masood Ahmed on development cooperation in a contested world
Vaccinating the next billion: Gavi’s CEO Dr Sania Nishtar
Climate justice and the World Court: Cynthia Houniuhi
Cultivating resilience, part 3: ICARDA’s vision for dryland agriculture
Cultivating resilience - Part 2: CIMMYT's mission to transform global food systems
Cultivating resilience - Part 1: CGIAR’s vision for global food security
Pacific gender equality: a regional perspective
What would an independent New Caledonia mean for Australia? A discussion with Nic Maclellan
The first ten years: Femili PNG’s work with survivors of family and sexual violence since 2014
Better than cash: Ruth Goodwin-Groen on how digital payments promote safety, transparency and inclusiveness
The gains and pains of working away from home
Helder Lopes on governing Timor-Leste’s financial sector
MSF’s Dr Christos Christou on the shrinking of the humanitarian space
2024 aid budget analysis
IFAD and smallholder agriculture in the Asia-Pacific
Can the world’s governments agree on a better framework for pandemic response?
Memorandum of Understanding – Steak-holders speak
2021 aid budget breakfast
Memorandum of Understanding - Migrant labour by no means cut and dried
Memorandum of Understanding – Carbon: Money grows on trees
Memorandum of Understanding – Somaliland: State-ing the obvious
Worsening employment outcomes for Pacific technical graduate job-seekers, and one possible solution
Memorandum of Understanding – Resilience: A climate for change
Change and continuity in Australian aid: what the aid flows show
Timor-Leste: 2021 economic survey
Memorandum of Understanding – Religion: Converting sacred texts
Memorandum of Understanding – Travelogues: Aid beyond the tarmac road
Memorandum of Understanding – Food: An entrée to development
COVID-19: Economic costs and responses in the Pacific
How to meet Australian demand for Pacific foreign vocational workers
Migration and household finances: How a different framing can improve thinking about migration
2020 Australasian AID Conference - Panel 5b: Australian aid and foreign policy
2020 Australasian AID Conference - Panel 5a: Working with men and boys to end violence against women
2020 Australasian AID Conference - Panel event - Pacific perspectives on the world
2020 Australasian AID Conference - Keynote panel: Labour mobility
2020 Australasian AID Conference - Panel 1d: Global lessons from Indonesia’s anti-poverty programs
2020 Australasian AID Conference - Keynote address - The future of aid in the 21st century: five paradigm shifts
2020 Australasian AID Conference - Keynote address - Alex Hawke, Minister for International Development and the Pacific
2020 Australasian AID Conference - Keynote panel - Australian aid: PNG and transparency
2020 Australasian AID Conference - Keynote address: Women, peace and security
2020 Australasian AID Conference - Keynote panel: Debating RCTs and impact evaluation
Development the Aga Khan way
Men’s perspectives on addressing family and sexual violence in Papua New Guinea
Navigation by judgment: why and when top down management of foreign aid doesn’t work
Australian aid: building a robust performance culture
Tax pirates and tax fairness
2019 Australasian Aid Conference - Keynote panel: China's development cooperation in focus
2019 Australasian Aid Conference - Keynote address: Contemporary challenges in development finance
2019 Australasian Aid Conference - 2019 Mitchell Oration: Africa and the global landscape
2019 Australasian Aid Conference - Panel 2a: Using a gender lens to influence impact finance
2019 Australasian Aid Conference - Panel 5c: Prevention of sexual exploitation in the aid sector
2019 Australasian Aid Conference - Keynote panel: Mental health and psychosocial disability
Australian Greens' aid and development policy: towards the 2019 election
2019 Australasian Aid Conference - Panel 3e: Impact of technology on developing Asia
2019 Australasian Aid Conference - Panel 3d: Local-level women's leadership for policy change
2019 Australasian Aid Conference - Panel 1e: Pacific labour mobility
Australian launch of WDR 2019: the changing nature of work
Coups, fish and the media: in conversation with Sean Dorney
Public work programs vs active labour market programs: evidence from Papua New Guinea
Options for a National Integrity Commission — acting on new evidence on corruption and trust
The IFC, development finance and our region: in conversation with Nena Stoiljkovic
Navigating feminism and amplifying women’s voices in Vanuatu: in conversation with Yasmine Bjornum
2018 PNG Update - Plenary Session 2: Economic developments
2018 PNG Update - Plenary Session 1 [excerpt]: Charles Abel's speech
2018 PNG Update - Parallel Session 2: Digital technology
2018 PNG Update - Parallel Session 3: Governance and development II
2018 PNG Update - Plenary Session 4: ANU-UPNG research showcase
2018 Pacific Update - Panel 6B - Environment
2018 Pacific Update - Panel 5B - Energy
2018 Pacific Update - Panel 4B - Tourism
2018 Pacific Update - Panel 3C - Climate change (student panel)
2018 Pacific Update - Panel 3B - Partnerships in urban disaster preparedness, emergency and recovery
2018 Pacific Update - Panel 2B - Climate change
2018 Pacific Update - Panel 1C - Health
Pacific regionalism, climate finance, women in politics: in conversation with Hon Ralph Regenvanu
2018 Pacific Update - Panel 1B - Gender and social analysis
2018 Mitchell Oration - Professor Sir Richard Feachem
2018 Pacific Update - Panel 3a - Labour mobility
PNG aid evaluation forum - funding for multilaterals to strengthen PNG's health sector
PNG aid evaluation forum - support for the roads sector
PNG aid evaluation forum - response to the 2015 drought
2018 Aid budget breakfast
Australian aid evaluations: disability-inclusive development
World Bank report launch: Australia’s Seasonal Worker Programme
Decent work in global supply chains
On writing, PNG literature and the voice of the diaspora: an interview with Rashmii Bell
2018 Australasian Aid Conference - Panel 4b - The future of multilateral development banking
2018 Australasian Aid Conference - Panel 5d - Joint funding mechanisms for humanitarian response
2018 Australasian Aid Conference - Opening address
2018 Australasian Aid Conference - Panel 4c - LGBTIQ+ inclusion
2018 Australasian Aid Conference - Keynote address - The strugglers
2018 Australasian Aid Conference - Lives in times of war, famine and civil unrest
2018 Australasian Aid Conference - Panel 2a - Regional health security: what is Australia's role?
2018 Australasian Aid Conference - Panel 1a - Launch of 'Inside the black box of political will'
2018 Australasian Aid Conference - Plenary - Health security and medical research
2018 Australasian Aid Conference - Plenary - 3MAP: the Three-Minute Aid Pitch
2018 Australasian Aid Conference - Panel 5a - Anti-corruption and development assistance
2018 Australasian Aid Conference - Panel 4a - The aid apathy crisis
2018 Australasian Aid Conference - Panel 3a - Adaptive programming in theory and in practice
2018 Australasian Aid Conference - Plenary - Civil Society in Asian Development Cooperation
The social contract, preferences for redistribution, and tax morale
Women, peace and security: a new global index
The Social Observatory: integrating the social sciences for adaptive practice
2017 Mitchell Oration - Development: towards 21st century approaches - Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
China and the United States as aid donors: past and future trajectories - Patrick Kilby
Strengthening government systems and processes in PNG: ICAC and other issues - Eric Kwa
Supporting economic reform in Vanuatu: the Governance for Growth program
Robin Davies interviews Gillian Mellsop
An interview with Muhannad Hadi, WFP
PNG after the elections: politics
PNG after the elections: the economy
Aid paradoxes in Afghanistan: building and undermining the state - Dr Nemat Bizhan.
The corrupt cannot fight corruption - Sam Koim
International intervention and local politics - book launch
Australia's foreign aid dilemma - Jack Corbett
Financing global education: challenges and opportunities
Australian aid evaluations Part 2: pandemics and emerging infectious diseases
Australian aid evaluations Part 1: basic education in Mindanao
Political settlements and their trajectories - Sue Ingram
Australia's role in the global fight against TB: an interview with Eric Goosby
My Father, My country - Q & A session of documentary screening with Dame Meg Taylor
Drought and famine relief in Papua New Guinea, 2015-2016
Why forests? Why now? The science, economics, and politics of tropical forests and climate change
2017 aid budget breakfast
Coping with high risk and uncertainty in aid policy design and practice - Adam Fforde
Complexity in governments and markets - Vito Tanzi
Papua New Guinea after the resource boom
Democracy in Africa: past, present and future
Australian aid evaluations: new aid evaluation policy, Indonesia roads and PNG health
Robin Davies interviews Inge Kaul Pt 2
Robin Davies interviews Inge Kaul Pt 1
Understanding how change happens - Duncan Green
European Union development policy - Stefano Manservisi
World Development Report 2017: Governance and the Law
AAC 2017 Opening Address: The Hon Julie Bishop MP
The humanitarian system in crisis - AAC 2017
3MAP: The three-minute aid pitch - AAC 2017
Asian approaches to engaging the private sector in development cooperation - AAC2017
Now for the hard part: strategies for enhancing state capability for implementation - AAC2017
The state of play on aid transparency: in discussion with Publish What You Fund
Economic diversification and tax reform in Papua New Guinea - Sir Nagora Bogan Podcast
Robin Davies interviews Bill Armstrong
Advocating for women in Porgera: an interview with Everlyne Sap
2016 PNG Update - Part 2 - ANU-UPNG Research Showcase Podcast
2016 PNG Update - Part 1 - Bruce Davis & Charles Abel Podcast
Robin Davies interviews Phillip Passmore - Part 2
Robin Davies interviews Phillip Passmore - Part 1
From managing disasters to managing disaster risk: an interview with Robert Glasser
The future of the World Bank
Betty Lovai Keynote - Women in Leadership - 2016 PNG Update
In conversation with Muhammad Musa, BRAC ED
Challenging gender inequality: in conversation with UN Women Asia and the Pacific
ADB@50: what does the future hold?
Strengthening public financial management reform in Pacific Island countries
State of the PNG public sector - Mr John Ma'o Kali
An interview with Helen Evans
The Nauru dilemma
The intractable problem of landowner identification in the PNG LNG project: a historical perspective
Part 2 - ODE aid evaluations: investing in teachers and learning from evaluations
Part 1 - ODE aid evaluations: investing in teachers and learning from evaluations
Telecommunications regulation in Vanuatu – in conversation with Dalsie Baniala
Labour Mobility - Pacific Possible
The case of water sector reform in Lebanon
Financing responses to climate change in the Pacific
Going beyond ‘politics matters’ in international development
Towards an integrated labour migration strategy in our Pacific neighbourhood
Immigration detention: Australia and its neighbours
New approaches to tackling gender-based violence in Papua New Guinea
University reform in Papua New Guinea: the Unitech experience
Australian aid evaluations: Australia Awards scholarships and women's leadership
Australian aid evaluations: performance of Australian aid
2016 Australian aid budget breakfast forum
2015 New Zealand Aid Stakeholder Survey Launch
Playing the game: the memoirs of Sir Julius Chan
The cost of conflict: five years of the Syrian crisis
Interview with MSF's Abdul Wasey Mullahzada on family and sexual violence in PNG
Interview with Dr Lama Mouakea, Syrian Family Planning Association
Aid and refugees in Europe: an interview with Wolfgang Jamann
AAC2016 - Panel - Forces shaping aid policy, and how we can influence aid for the better
2016 Harold Mitchell Development Policy Annual Lecture - Dr Mark Dybul
AAC2016 - Panel - New perspectives on aid, recovery and statebuilding
AAC2016 - Keynote Address - Kitty van der Heijden - Forging a new development future
AAC2016 - Opening Address - Peter Varghese
AAC2016 - Plenary - International climate change – Perspectives on Paris
AAC2016 - Plenary - What will the SDGs mean for Asia?
AAC2016 - Panel - Putting political thinking into development practice
AAC2016 - Panel - Australian Aid Policy
2015 Survey of the Afghan People Australian Launch
AAC2016 - Dinner Speech - Bob McMullan
AAC2016 - Keynote Address - Terence Wood - 2015 Australian Aid Stakeholder Survey Launch
Pacific Conversations - interview with Fe’iloakitau Kaho Tevi
Humanitarian principles amid the militarisation of aid: an interview with Vincent Bernard
Australian aid evaluations: Australian NGO Cooperation Program
Australian aid evaluations: non-core funding to the ADB and the World Bank
Investing in innovation for health: an interview with BT Slingsby
Results of Australian community-based climate change action grants in the Pacific and Southeast Asia
What do student exam results tell us about free education policy in PNG?
Global health and the World Bank: recent events and developments
Gender-based violence and PNG business: a conversation with Linda Van Leeuwen
Papua New Guinea: pathways from a potential crisis
Careers in Development 2015
PNG: pathways to gender parity
Higher education issues and reform in Papua New Guinea
Funding and furthering the fight against TB: an interview with Lucica Ditiu
Can the SDGs be achieved by 2030?
Do microcredit and family planning programs have their intended impact on poor households?
Universal rights and quality of life: an interview with Tewodros Melesse
Out of the rubble: recovering from the Nepalese earthquake
Legitimate self-interest and the campaign for aid: an interview with Rev Joel Edwards
The evolving role of multilateralism in ending hunger and malnutrition
Leveraging the benefits of Asia’s integration and growth for Pacific economies
The fish is the friend of matriliny: reef density and matrilineal inheritance in Melanesia
2015 Pacific Update - Stephen Howes - Developments on Pacific labour mobility
2015 Pacific Update - Opening Session
2015 Pacific Update - Ron Duncan - Drivers of growth spurts in Pacific island economies
2015 Pacific Update - Christopher Edmonds - Pacific Economic Outlook
PNG Update 2015 - Welcome Remarks and Inaugural Address
PNG Update 2015 - Gae Kauzi Keynote Address
PNG Update 2015 - Glenn Banks Keynote Address
PNG Update 2015 - The Hon James Marape Opening Address
PNG Update 2015 - Survey of recent developments
PNG Update 2015 - Jim Adams Keynote Address
PNG Update 2015 - Michael Uiari Keynote Address
2015 aid budget breakfast
Australian aid evaluations part 2: performance of Australian aid 2013-14
Australian aid evaluations part 1: Australia's responses to humanitarian crises
Has the Sector Wide Approach delivered improvements in population health?
Mari Pangestu - The new economy and development: an Indonesian perspective
Pacific conversations with Dame Meg Taylor
Seasonal Worker Program: demand-side constraints and suggested reforms
2015 Australasian Aid Conference - Aid to the Pacific
2015 Australasian Aid Conference - Aid, development and conflicts in the Asian frontier
2015 Australasian Aid Conference - Aid from India
2015 Australasian Aid Conference - Recipient perspectives on aid
2015 Australasian Aid Conference - Kylie Charlton - Pioneering impact investment in Asia
2015 Australasian Aid Conference - Robin Davies: the future of aid - three orthodoxies contested
2015 Australasian Aid Conference - Tanya Plibersek opening address
The future of the Global Fund - an interview with Mark Dybul
Tourism, regionalism and Niue’s quest for self-sustainability: an interview with Premier Toke Talagi
An interview with Sir Richard Feachem
‘A lost decade? Service delivery and reforms in Papua New Guinea 2002-2012’ Australian launch
What was different about the 2014 elections in Solomon Islands and what it means for development
Afghanistan 2014: a survey of the Afghan people
The challenges of fighting corruption in Papua New Guinea
Malaria elimination in the Asia Pacific by 2030
Legal challenges, law reform and legal education – an interview with Lalotoa Mulitalo
The rise of inequality and the new economic development consensus
Political instability, the MSG and regional politics – an interview with PM Joe Natuman of Vanuatu
Careers in development
Voice and agency: empowering women and girls for shared prosperity
Securitisation of aid and NGOs post-9/11
Poverty in Asia: a deeper look
Telling stories of and for Melanesian women: an interview with Amanda Donigi
Putting our money where our mouths are? Donations to NGOs and support for foreign aid in Australia
Private sector partnerships in development: US approaches
Challenges and opportunities for women in Papua New Guinea
Inequality: should developing countries be worried? An interview with Andrew Leigh MP
Pacific conversations with Fred Samuel Tarisongtamate
Stephen O’Brien on the Roll Back Malaria Partnership's role and the challenges of fighting Malaria
2014 PNG Update keynote address from her Excellency Ms Margaret Adamson
2014 PNG Update keynote address from the Hon Patrick Pruatich
2014 Pacific Update keynote address from Ron Duncan
2014 Pacific Update keynote addresses from Yongzheng Yang and Christopher Edmonds
The Global Partnership for Education: CEO Alice Albright on opportunities and challenges
Pacific conversations with Elise Huffer
2014 Aid budget breakfast
Pacific conversations with Colin Tukuitonga
PNG’s violence epidemic and the medical response: in conversation with MSF’s Paul Brockmann
ODE evaluations part 2: aid quality and conclusion
ODE evaluations part 1: Introduction and volunteers
G20's policy challenges for Asia and the Pacific - Development policy: infrastructure reform
Risk and hardship in the Pacific and worldwide
PNG’s awakening: an interview with Serena Sumanop
Pacific conversations with Astrid Boulekone
2014 AAIDP Workshop - Sir Fazle Hasan Abed dinner speech
2014 AAIDP Workshop - Frances Seymour - Forests for climate and development
2014 AAIDP Workshop - Making their mark: the BRICS and aid
2014 AAIDP Workshop - Roger Riddell - Does aid really work?
2014 AAIDP Workshop - Julie Bishop Opening Address
Pacific conversations with Kolone Vaai
2013 Australian aid stakeholder survey
Afghanistan: what has been achieved?
Interview with Daisy Plana on family and sexual violence survivors in PNG
Economics of climate change in the Pacific
Syria - responding to the humanitarian challenge of a generation on the brink
Pacific Conversations with Odo Tevi
Are the Asia and Pacific small states different from other small states
The challenges of aid dependency and economics for Africa and the Pacific
Are international organisations up to the challenge of providing global public goods for development
Pacific Conversations with Katy Le Roy
Tapping the market - opportunities for domestic investments in WASH
An interview with Duncan Green
Duncan Green - How do we plan, campaign and work in development
Goals for people - a review of post-2015 proposals, and some suggestions
Child protection in Afghanistan
Election forum on Australian aid
Perspectives in global development - industrial policies in a changing world
Value for money in aid
Texts, tweets and social change - how can communications contribute to development
Pacific Conversations with Tara Chetty
Pacific Conversations with Francis Herman
Does Official Development Assistance Have A Future
PNG Update 5 - gender-based violence
PNG Update 4 - economic policy challenges
PNG Update 3 - issues in public service delivery
PNG Update 2 - economic and political update
PNG Update 1 - Albert Mellam on PNG higher education
Pacific Update 6 - public management and private sector development
Pacific Update 5 - Pacific gender update
Pacific Update 4 - regional integration
Pacific Update 3 - regional trade, labour mobility and linkages
Pacific Update 2 - Small Island States
Pacific Update 1 - regional overview, Melanesia and Timor-Leste
John Gibson on two decades of poverty in PNG
Francois Bourguignon On Globalisation And Inequality
Disability-inclusive development forum
David Booth - business, politics and the state in Africa - challenging the orthodoxies
Ume Wainetti on combatting family and sexual violence in PNG
Paul Collier on how the private sector can help the bottom billion
2013 aid budget breakfast
Pacific conversations - interview with Sina Retzlaff
Pacific conversations - interview with Sir Mekere Morauta
Climate change - avoiding a four degree warmer world
An interview with World Bank VP Rachel Kyte
Public expenditure and financial management in fragile states
Interview with Peter Forau on the Melanesian Spearhead Group
Stephen Howes interviews Michael Clemens
Economics and emigration - trillion dollar bills on the sidewalk
Timor-Leste and the New Deal for Engagement in fragile states
Revisiting The Limits Of Growth - A Global Forecast For The Next Forty Years
Engaging Business In Development Session 4
Engaging Business In Development Session 3
Engaging Business In Development Session 2
Engaging Business In Development Session 1