After a disastrous first couple of decades following independence in 1968, Nauru turned its economic fortunes around in the ...

Gordon Peake on Australia's branded aid merchandise in the Pacific and whether new Commonwealth restrictions will curb the ...

This post summarises a research dissertation on the same topic. In May 2024, a landslide in Enga Province buried more than 2,000 people and displaced an estimated 1,680 others. Both Prime Minister ...

Chair: Kirsten Bishop, Assistant Secretary, Development Performance and Advisory Services Branch, Development Effectiveness and Enabling Division, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade The Devpolicy ...

Kamalini Lokuge, Medical Epidemiologist, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, ANU The Devpolicy Blog is based at the Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, ...

Kath Taplin is a practising lawyer who has worked on aid and development initiatives in the Asia Pacific for the past decade. She was Femili PNG’s Senior Development Manager from early 2015 to ...

Renee is Cardno's Global Lead on market-driven approaches to development, and a Principal and Program Director at Cardno. She has worked on MSD programs across a number of sectors and countries.

Mahomed Patel is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at the ANU. He has done consultancies for development agencies, including DFAT and WHO, to ...

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

Philippe (Phil) Brewster is the Pacific Livelihoods and Economic Empowerment Technical Adviser at Save the Children Australia, with a strong focus on livelihoods, economic empowerment, climate change ...

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

H.E. Sir W. Noel Levi, CSM, CBE, Kt. was the distinguished sixth Secretary-General of the Pacific Islands Forum from February 1998–May 2004; Member of Parliament for New Ireland Province (1977-1987).