The re-elected Labor Government‘s political capital should be used to improve the quality and measurement of Australia’s aid ...

The current OECD Development Assistance Committee peer review of Australia's aid effort takes place at a critical moment, ...

The Devpolicy Blog is based at the Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University ...

The Pacific Family Matters blog series explores priorities for the re-elected Australian Labor government’s engagement on development issues in the Pacific.

The biggest beneficiaries from taking diaspora size into account are Kiribati (whose allocation doubles from 50 to 100) and Vanuatu (whose allocation increases from 70 to 100). The loser is Fiji (down ...

Foreign aid was increased by 4% over what had been projected last year to bring the 2024-25 aid budget to $4.961 billion, virtually unchanged from the (inflation-adjusted) 2023-24 level of $4.900 ...

Abstract: The Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme is a guestworker program that enables people from Timor Leste and nine Pacific Island countries to work in Australia on temporary visas.

Abstract: This report shares key findings from the first wave of the Pacific Labour Mobility Survey (PLMS). The PLMS is a new multi-country Pacific migration survey covering workers in three different ...

The Pacific Labour Mobility Survey (PLMS) covers households in three Pacific countries – Tonga, Kiribati and Vanuatu – and workers in Australia’s Seasonal Worker Program (SWP) and Pacific Labour ...

A direct result of the shift to larger contracts and use of facilities has been the increased concentration of the aid contracting market. Concentration of the contracting market has also occurred ...

Kina million (2022 prices)Real service delivery costs in 2022 amounted to K445 million. Service delivery covers all spending areas — though, since 2018, some health funding has gone to PHAs. By 2018, ...

Evonne Kennedy Evonne Kennedy is the Executive Director of the Business Coalition for Women in Papua New Guinea.