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Australian aid | Papua New Guinea & the Pacific | Global development policy devpolicy.org Canberra Joined July 2010-
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Today's Saturday Extra is a special report by the Kaintiba Research Team. Our two-blog series, "The road into no-man's land" presents images, videos and testimonies which explores service delivery in Anga's interior - a remote region of PNG. Visit devpolicy.org
AAC2026 call for papers now open! 📢 Submit an abstract, panel or launch by 21 August Join us from 2-4 December for the 2026 Australasian AID Conference at ANU's Crawford School in Canberra. Details: crawford.anu.edu.au/devpolicy/2026… #AAC2026 @Asia_Foundation
"There has been little sustained public reflection within Kiribati itself about why we continue to carry a name rooted in colonial cartography and imperial administration rather than ... Tungaru," says Amota Ataneka. devpolicy.org/why-tungaru-ma…
We are pleased to announce that the ANU-UPNG partnership has been renewed for another 4 years. It will ensure students like Rainford Gulas will have the opportunity to expand their horizons through activities such as the ANU-UPNG Summer School. #PNGAusPartnership
🚨Registration open!🚨 Join us as Bobby Kunda and Kingtau Mambon presents “Informality, Incidence and Pass-through of PNG’s VAT Exemptions" ⏰3 July, 12.30-1.30pm PGT / AEST 📍In person @CrawfordSeminar7 or #UPNG or Zoom 📝 Register: events.devpolicy.org/20260703
"Development financing [in the Pacific] remains dispersed across numerous donor-funded projects, typically delivered as individual initiatives," says Axel Melkonian. "Investments are implemented at a scale too limited to displace diesel generation." devpolicy.org/pacific-fuel-c…
AAC2026 speaker announcement 🔊 🇮🇩 Economist Sri Mulyani Indrawati to present Mitchell Oration @ ANU Join us from 2-4 December for the 2026 Australasian AID Conference at @ANUCrawford in Canberra. For details of call for papers, subscribe now ➡️devpolicy.org/subscribe/ #AAC2026
“Artificial intelligence is often discussed as something that will reshape higher education in the future,” says Raymond Kamb John and @Nematbizhan. “But for many students [at the University of Papua New Guinea], that future has already arrived.” #UPNG devpolicy.org/ai-is-already-…
“For the dev sector, building the civic skills required to come to terms with the current reality, moving past disorientation, conferences & exhaustion & discerning what might be done in response is an urgent task,” says Chris Roche from @SocialChangeLTU. devpolicy.org/a-lesson-being…
“Digicel prices fluctuated [in 2025] but the other two providers kept their data bundle prices steady,” says @ahawatson, Hafford Norea, Loretta Dilu & Jonathan Zureo.“Competitive pressure did not intensify in 2025.” #ANU #UPNG #PNGNRI #DivineWord devpolicy.org/mobile-interne…
“Vanuatu’s prevalence of physical or sexual violence against women by husbands and partners has fallen by nine percentage points over the last 15 years,” say Tatavola Matas, Sharon Frank and Juliet Hunt from the Vanuatu Women’s Centre. devpolicy.org/vanuatu-leads-…
🚨Last Chance!🚨 Join us as Issabelle Vilau presents “Voters’ participation in PNG: Understanding the nature of women’s participation" ⏰5 June, 12.30-1.30pm PGT / AEST 📍In person @CrawfordSeminar7 or #UPNG or Zoom 📝 Register: events.devpolicy.org/20260605
"A common starting point in development policy is that strengthening institutions... may improve governance outcomes," says @Nematbizhan & William Maley. "[But] institutions are always embedded in historical, political & social contexts." #PNG #Afghanistan devpolicy.org/when-instituti…
A great opening day at the 2026 Australasian Development Economics Workshop! 📈Concluding with an excellent panel on social protection. Join us at @ANUCrawford for Day 2 incl keynote by Chris Woodruff from Oxford Uni. Program and registration (free): crawford.anu.edu.au/acde/adew2026
One of our aid and development experts, Terence Wood, contributed to the Development Intelligence Lab's Intel question this week: Is long-term planning still a viable strategy or just a comfort blanket? Read all the responses here: devintelligencelab.com/intel/the-inte…
"The starting point for any analysis is to recognise that the PALM scheme is not an aid program, where the donor through a managing contractor micromanages the program’s inputs and outputs," says Richard Curtain. devpolicy.org/east-timor-can…
DYK? Devpolicy Blog publishes on Saturdays in 2026. Catch up now! “It is a remarkably thin level of engagement for a project that risks turning Fiji into a quasi-Quad maritime base,” says Michael Field. “What’s the price Fiji pays for a Quad port?” Blog: devpolicy.org/the-quad-meets…
“While the education system is expanding, it is not expanding at the same speed as the youth bulge in population,” say Ponnusamy Manohar, David Mo & Loretta Dilu from UPNG. “PNG remains an outlier in the Pacific, with extremely low tertiary participation.” devpolicy.org/tertiary-educa…
🚨Registration closing soon! Join us as Issabelle Vilau presents “Voters’ participation in PNG: Understanding the nature of women’s participation" ⏰5 June, 12.30-1.30pm PGT / AEST 📍In person @CrawfordSeminar7 or #UPNG or Zoom 📝 Register: events.devpolicy.org/20260605
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