Speakers: Sahar Yassin, Humanitarian Advocacy Lead, World Vision Jordan; Emma Wanchap, Acting Manager of Policy and Government Relations, World Vision Australia; Kevin Boreham, Lecturer, ANU College of Law; Stephen Howes, Director, Development Policy Centre. How do we even begin to think about the scale of the Syrian conflict, when so many lives are endangered every day? World Vision and Europe’s largest independent economics consultancy, Frontier Economics, released its report 'The Cost of Conf...
Mar 22, 2016•59 min•Season 5Ep. 16
Research Officer Ashlee Betteridge interviewed Abdul Wasey Mullahzada, outgoing Medical Coordinator for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Papua New Guinea, about MSF's new report on the family and sexual violence epidemic in PNG, ‘Return to Abuser’. 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. Yo...
Mar 17, 2016•31 min•Season 5Ep. 15
As the Syrian conflict reaches five years, much of the humanitarian world’s attention is focused on addressing the needs of the millions of refugees who have fled. But there are also many who have remained within Syria’s borders, and those who have stayed to serve them. Dr Lama Mouakea is among them. She is the Executive Director of the Syrian Family Planning Association (SFPA), a member association of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF). Camilla Burkot recently met with her t...
Mar 11, 2016•28 min•Season 5Ep. 14
Over one million refugees and asylum seekers entered Europe in 2015, and over 100,000 entered in the first two months of 2016 alone, according to IOM estimates. What has the impact been on European aid budgets and policies? In this interview, Camilla Burkot discusses these and related issues with Wolfgang Jamann, Secretary General and CEO of CARE International. Blog available here: http://devpolicy.org/aid-refugees-europe-interview-wolfgang-jamann-20160309 Full transcript available here: http://...
Mar 08, 2016•21 min•Season 5Ep. 13
Chair: Chris Roche, La Trobe University In this submitted interactive session panellists at the 2016 Australasian Aid Conference, panellists discussed and debated forces that have led to change and continuity, and the aid policy making process more broadly. Panellists: David Hudson, La Trobe University and ANU; Jo Spratt, ANU; Ben Day, ANU; and Jennifer vanHeerde-Hudson, La Trobe University and ANU. Read and subscribe to our daily blogs at devpolicy.org. Learn more about our research and join ou...
Mar 03, 2016•1 hr 21 min•Season 5Ep. 12
Speaker: Dr Mark Dybul, Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Dr Dybul has worked on HIV and public health for more than 25 years as a clinician, scientist, teacher and administrator. After graduating from Georgetown Medical School in Washington DC, Dybul joined the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, where he conducted basic and clinical studies on HIV virology, immunology and treatment optimisation, including the first randomised, con...
Mar 03, 2016•1 hr 15 min•Season 5Ep. 11
This submitted panel, developed in conjunction with the Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium (SLRC), discussed livelihoods, basic services and social protection in conflict-affected situations in eight countries – DRC, Uganda, South Sudan, Sierra Leone, Nepal, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka – based on a six-year panel research program led by a team based at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI). Read and subscribe to our daily blogs at devpolicy.org. Learn more about our research and j...
Feb 28, 2016•1 hr 19 min•Season 5Ep. 10
Speaker: Kitty van der Heijden, Director, World Resources Institute Europe Office Topic: After the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and with massive funding commitments coming out of the Paris climate change discussions, the international community now faces the real work of translating vision and commitment into action. Some countries think the SDGs will make little difference to their development effort; others are anticipating major changes. So are the SDGs more than a PR...
Feb 24, 2016•52 min•Season 5Ep. 9
Speaker: Peter Varghese is the Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Mr Varghese took up his position as Secretary on 3 December 2012. Prior to that, Mr Varghese held a wide range of senior positions in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Canberra and overseas. He was Australia’s High Commissioner to India (2009 to 2012) and Malaysia (2000 to 2002), and also served in Tokyo, Washington, and Vienna. Mr Varghese was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO)...
Feb 24, 2016•42 min•Season 5Ep. 7
Speakers: Frank Jotzo, Crawford School (chair); Howard Bamsey, Adjunct Professor, Regulatory Institutions Network, ANU and formerly Australia’s Special Envoy on Climate Change; Jaehyoung Lee, Professor, Korea University School of Law and Legal Advisor to Korean delegation to UN climate change negotiations; Professor Stephen Howes, Director, Development Policy Centre, ANU. The Paris negotiations on climate change are a critical event for anyone with an interest in international development. This ...
Feb 24, 2016•1 hr 11 min•Season 5Ep. 7
Speakers: Julia Newton-Howes, Chief Executive, CARE Australia; Eun Mee Kim, Dean and Professor, Graduate School of International Studies and Director, Institute for Development and Human Security, Ewha Womans University; Ye Jiang, Director of the Institute for Global Governance Studies, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS); Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Anthea Mulakala, Asia Foundation (chair). Are the new Sustainable Develo...
Feb 24, 2016•1 hr 21 min•Season 5Ep. 6
Presentations: Designing context-relevant development programs: a problem-focused political economy analysis tool for aid practitioners (Lisa Denney, Overseas Development Institute); Everyday political analysis (David Hudson, University College London; Heather Marquette, University of Birmingham; and Sam Waldock, UK Department for International Development, Rwanda); How large, traditional aid programs can be politically smart: experience from Southeast Asia (Thomas Parks, DFAT); The evaluation o...
Feb 20, 2016•1 hr 27 min•Season 5Ep. 5
Speakers: Terence Wood, Research Fellow, Development Policy Centre, and co-author of the 2015 aid stakeholder survey; Richard Moore, Former Deputy Director General, AusAID; Marc Purcell, CEO of the Australian Council for International Development; and Alison Baker, Principal, Development Assistance, GHD: Stephen Howes (chair). This session at the 2016 Australasian Aid Conference provided an opportunity for discussion of the results of the 2015 Australian Aid Stakeholder Survey, and more generall...
Feb 20, 2016•1 hr 21 min•Season 5Ep. 4
Speakers: Gordon Hein, Timor Sharan, and Zack Warren, The Asia Foundation; Professor William Maley, Bell School, ANU; and Professor Stephen Howes, Development Policy Centre, Crawford School, ANU. The findings of The Asia Foundation’s latest Survey of the Afghan People are being released at an important moment for Afghanistan. Crucial questions of security, economic stability, and reconciliation face the administration of President Ashraf Ghani and CEO Abdullah Abdullah. An atmosphere of increasi...
Feb 19, 2016•1 hr 35 min•Season 5Ep. 3
Bob McMullan, former MP and Parliamentary Secretary for International Development, and current Executive Director of the EBRD, delivered the dinner speech at the 2016 Australasian Aid Conference. The conference was hosted by the Development Policy Centre and The Asia Foundation at Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU, on 10-11 February. https://crawford.anu.edu.au/devpolicy/events Read and subscribe to our daily blogs at devpolicy.org. Learn more about our research and join our public events at...
Feb 19, 2016•44 min•Season 5Ep. 2
Speaker: Terence Wood, Research Fellow, Development Policy Centre, ANU. In 2013 the Development Policy Centre conducted the first ever comprehensive survey of Australia’s aid stakeholders, canvasing their views of the Australian aid program. Since then Australian aid has changed dramatically: AusAID is no more, the focus of aid has shifted, and the aid budget has been cut dramatically. In 2015 the Centre re-ran the stakeholder survey, and the data from the two surveys provides a unique opportuni...
Feb 19, 2016•44 min•Season 5Ep. 1
In this installment of Pacific Conversations, Tess Newton Cain interviews Fe’iloakitau Kaho Tevi about green growth, activism & Pacific regionalism. Fe'i Tevi is a Port Vila-based sustainable development consultant with experience in diplomacy, international relations and civil society activism and advocacy. 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 Ins...
Feb 18, 2016•48 min•Season 4Ep. 49
Vincent Bernard is the Geneva-based head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Forum for Law and Policy, and Editor-in-Chief of the International Review of the Red Cross. During his recent visit to Canberra as part of the ICRC’s global cycle on the principles guiding humanitarian action, Vincent sat down with Camilla Burkot to discuss the militarisation of aid and the role of humanitarian actors in contemporary conflicts. Read and subscribe to our daily blogs at devpolicy.org. L...
Dec 14, 2015•22 min•Season 4Ep. 48
On Wednesday 9 December 2015, the Development Policy Centre hosted a forum to discuss and debate two recent aid evaluations by DFAT’s Office of Development Effectiveness (ODE). The event addressed the issue of development partnerships with a focus on two recent ODE evaluations of the Australian NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP) and Australia’s non-core funding to the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank. The multilateral banks and NGOs represent two of the Australian aid program’s more importa...
Dec 13, 2015•1 hr 8 min•Season 4Ep. 47
On Wednesday 9 December 2015, the Development Policy Centre hosted a forum to discuss and debate two recent aid evaluations by DFAT’s Office of Development Effectiveness (ODE). The event addressed the issue of development partnerships with a focus on two recent ODE evaluations of the Australian NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP) and Australia’s non-core funding to the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank. The multilateral banks and NGOs represent two of the Australian aid program’s more importa...
Dec 13, 2015•1 hr 23 min•Season 4Ep. 46
Japan’s advanced pharmaceutical industry is renowned, but until recently had relatively little involvement with the development of products to serve the developing world. The Global Health Innovative Technology Fund (GHIT) is aiming to change that. A public-private partnership fund, GHIT invests in the development of drugs, diagnostics and vaccines for malaria, TB, HIV/AIDS and neglected tropical diseases. Camilla Burkot recently sat down with GHIT’s CEO, Dr BT Slingsby, to discuss the fund’s or...
Dec 07, 2015•16 min•Season 4Ep. 45
Speakers: Maria Cadahia-Perez, CARE International in PNG; Kate Duggan, Griffin Natural Resource Management; Cornelio Ase, Program and Humanitarian Manager, Oxfam Australia; Pia Treichel, Plan International Australia Countries in the Pacific and Southeast Asia are amongst the most vulnerable to disasters and the impacts of climate change. Since 2010, the Australian Government has invested $34 million in the Community-Based Climate Change Action Grants (CBCCAG) program, in which ten Australian and...
Nov 28, 2015•1 hr 42 min•Season 4Ep. 44
Speaker: Dr Anthony Swan, Research Fellow, Development Policy Centre, Crawford School, ANU. The centrepiece of government policy in Papua New Guinea over recent years has arguably been the Tuition Fee Free (TFF) policy implemented in 2012. The TFF effectively eliminated school fees for elementary, primary and secondary students and provided schools with direct funding at a level which on average over-compensated for their loss of school fees. While the TFF has improved access to education and sc...
Nov 28, 2015•1 hr 16 min•Season 4Ep. 43
Speaker: Mr Keith Hansen, Vice President, Human Development, World Bank Group. Recent health events have highlighted the interconnected nature of the world and the disparities that exist in access to health services across the globe. The World Bank, and many other organisations around the world are trying to help bring about convergence in health access, treatments and outcomes. They do this in various ways - by strengthening national health systems in countries, ensuring that national resources...
Nov 28, 2015•53 min•Season 4Ep. 42
Dr Linda Van Leeuwen is a Capacity Building Specialist for Anitua, a landholder company based on the island of Lihir in Papua New Guinea that provides a wide range of services to resource companies. She also heads their corporate social responsibility work, predominantly focused on eliminating violence against women (EVAW). Linda has also been involved heavily with the PNG Business Coalition for Women, as a founding board member and chair of its addressing violence working group. During her rece...
Nov 04, 2015•23 min•Season 4Ep. 41
Speaker: Paul Flanagan, Visiting Fellow, Development Policy Centre, Crawford School, ANU. Papua New Guinea will need to make some substantial adjustments in its budget and exchange rate settings to avoid the twin risks of an economic crisis similar to the ones it faced in the 1990s and a further growth slowdown. Investment ratings agencies Moodys as well as Standard and Poors have moved PNG’s outlook to negative; the PNG Treasury mid-year budget document showed 20 per cent of planned revenue was...
Nov 01, 2015•49 min•Season 4Ep. 40
Speakers: Ms Kath Taplin, Senior Development Manager, Femili PNG; Mr Nat Burke, Policy Adviser, Advocacy & Justice for Children, World Vision International; Ms Alison Chartres, Assistant Secretary, Development Policy and Education Branch, Development Policy Division, DFAT; Mr Peter Russell, Project Manager, International Development Assistance, GHD. Many young people are interested in a career working on some of the toughest challenges facing our world. Thousands volunteer in development org...
Oct 23, 2015•1 hr 5 min•Season 4Ep. 39
This panel discussion showcased high-profile speakers from Papua New Guinea and Australia. It explored current gender parity issues in Papua New Guinea, how business can work to adopt a diverse workforce and how to expand the opportunities available to both men and women within the changing commercial and social environment of Papua New Guinea. Speakers: Ms Avia Koisen Principal, Koisen Lawyers Dr Eric Kwa Secretary/CEO, PNG Constitutional Law Reform Commission The Honourable Malakai Tabar MP Mi...
Oct 15, 2015•1 hr 32 min•Season 4Ep. 38
The Honourable Malakai Tabar MP discussed the issues and challenges that Papua New Guinea is currently facing in the higher education sector, and the reforms underway. In 2007, The Hon Malakai Tabar MP was elected Member of Parliament representing the Gazelle Open Electorate. During his first term in parliament he was in Opposition, and was appointed Shadow Minister for Agriculture and Livestock. In 2012, he joined the Goverment through the National Alliance Party and in 2014 he was appointed Mi...
Oct 15, 2015•1 hr 11 min•Season 4Ep. 37
Dr Lucica Ditiu is the Executive Secretary of the Stop TB Partnership, a global partnership of more than 1300 partners – ranging from multilaterals to community- and faith-based organisations – with a vision of ending tuberculosis (TB), hosted by UNOPS in Geneva. Camilla Burkot caught up with her during her recent visit to Canberra to talk about funding for TB research, engaging politicians, and what the Stop TB Partnership is doing to combat TB stigma. Download the transcript here: http://devpo...
Oct 12, 2015•17 min•Season 4Ep. 36
