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What’s the case for doubling down on governance efforts in the development program?

Blogs Date: 12 Feb 2025

Source: Development Intelligence Lab Minister Conroy has indicated that better governance is moving up the priority list for Australia’s development program. Our Pulse Check experts named governance as critical to the future of development in the region. And the terms of reference for the new development policy emphasise Australia’s role supporting ‘effective, accountable states’. But in recent years, Australian governance support […]

Decolonisation & Locally Led Development

Blogs Date: 12 Feb 2025

The continued demonstration of impact by locally led development programs and organizations like Vanuatu Skills Partnership, Women’s Fund Fiji, The Voice Inc, PNG and the Simbo for Change in the Solomon Islands is also a powerful way of encouraging ourselves – and our allies in development assistance – that it is locally-led change processes, not outsider-led projects – that change the course of our nation-building agenda and our goals of prosperity and equality.
-Jennifer Kalpokas Doan

Statecraftiness – Return of the GEDSI

Blogs Date: 12 Feb 2025

Source: Ivoox A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, an army of gender advisors toiled across the Pacific. Gender advisors work in a system they eagerly want to change, swerving their way through atmospheres of complex bureaucracies and evolving cultural norms. Gordon Peake speaks to Anna Gibert, Hugh White, Jennifer Kalpokas Doan, Fremden Yanhambath, Mereani […]