Has the Sector Wide Approach delivered improvements in population health?
Sector Wide Approaches (SWAps) for health emerged in the 1990s as a mechanism to improve efficiency of aid delivery and effectiveness of aid. Health SWAps aim to increase recipient government autonomy...
3 Jun 201549min
Mari Pangestu - The new economy and development: an Indonesian perspective
Development in most Asian countries has taken place through several conventional phases. Economies such as Indonesia have started with agriculture/resource based development; have moved to industriali...
3 Jun 20151h 10min
Pacific conversations with Dame Meg Taylor
During her first visit to Vanuatu as Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS), Dame Meg Taylor took some time to chat with Tess Newton Cain for Pacific Conversations. Blog pos...
3 Jun 201516min
Seasonal Worker Program: demand-side constraints and suggested reforms
The Seasonal Worker Program (SWP) was established in 2008, initially as a pilot, then in 2012 as a permanent program, to help meet the labour needs in Australia’s horticultural sector and to provide l...
3 Jun 20151h 27min
2015 Australasian Aid Conference - Aid to the Pacific
This panel included the following presentations:All talk and no action: has the Pacific regional health architecture improved over the last five years? — Joel Negin, Associate Professor and Senior Lec...
3 Jun 20151h 20min
2015 Australasian Aid Conference - Aid, development and conflicts in the Asian frontier
This panel included the following presentations:Understanding conflict, development, and statebuilding: frontier dynamics in central Sulawesi, IndonesiaRachel Diprose, University of MelbourneDrugs and...
3 Jun 20151h 20min
2015 Australasian Aid Conference - Aid from India
While aid from traditional donors has ebbed and flowed over recent years, countries like India and China, who have been quietly supporting south-south cooperation for more than 50 years, are rapidly s...
3 Jun 201551min
2015 Australasian Aid Conference - Recipient perspectives on aid
The changing aid landscape has implications both for donors and recipient countries. This panel explores what the new aid landscape means from a partner country perspective. Speakers discussed how the...
3 Jun 20151h 31min
