Tapping the market - opportunities for domestic investments in WASH
Throughout the developing world, millions of people lack access to safe water and improved sanitation, which has high social and economic costs. The World Bank’s Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) has...
2 Jun 201559min
An interview with Duncan Green
Oxfam's Duncan Green speaks with Devpolicy's Associate Director Robin Davies about the realities of doing development in complex systems. Devpolicy Talks is the podcast of the Australian National Univ...
2 Jun 20156min
Duncan Green - How do we plan, campaign and work in development
How do we plan, campaign and work in development when we don’t know what is going to happen and we don’t know what solutions will work? Aid professionals know that real life has a way of ignoring our ...
2 Jun 201550min
Goals for people - a review of post-2015 proposals, and some suggestions
Until recently, discussions on a new post-2015 framework to succeed the Millennium Development Goals mostly revolved around general principles or else very particular features of a possible landscape....
2 Jun 20151h 3min
Child protection in Afghanistan
Decades of conflict have eroded the physical and social fabric of Afghanistan, with severe impacts on the lives of children. Kerry Boland, consultant to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and...
2 Jun 201558min
Election forum on Australian aid
Australia’s aid program has increased massively over the last decade, but its future is unclear, and aid policy has become controversial. The Labor Government has repeatedly delayed its target to lift...
2 Jun 20151h 33min
Perspectives in global development - industrial policies in a changing world
Since the mid-1990s, economic growth rates in large and populous middle-income countries have substantially outpaced those in OECD countries. This has reshaped the global economy and favoured converge...
2 Jun 201558min
Value for money in aid
Aid agencies increasingly stress the importance of value for money, but what does this mean, and might a managerial focus on results actually undermine aid effectiveness, or simply result in aid confu...
2 Jun 201552min
