Susan Hutchinson Last week, Devpolicy hosted the Australian launch of the Women, Peace and Security Index. The index has been developed by the Georgetown University Institute for Women, Peace and Security in partnership with the Peace Research Institute of Oslo. It ranks countries based on three dimensions: women’s inclusion, justice and human security. Each of… Continue reading Women, Peace and Security in Australia and the SDGs
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The Devpolicy Blog provides for the best in aid and development analysis, research and policy comment, with global coverage and a focus on Australia, the Pacific and Papua New Guinea. The blog is run out of the Development Policy Centre housed in the Crawford School of Public Policy in the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University.
Menstrual hygiene management in the Pacific: women’s and girl’s experiences
Yasmin Mohamed and Chelsea Huggett There has been limited research on menstrual management in the Pacific, and the Last Taboo project is helping to bridge this gap. How does a market vendor manage her menstrual period while she’s at work in rural Papua New Guinea (PNG) and without access to toilets? Why does an adolescent girl in… Continue reading Menstrual hygiene management in the Pacific: women’s and girl’s experiences
Aid cuts undermine regional health security: Australia
Penny Wong Australia’s healthcare budget cut impacts international development-21% cuts were made in the infamous 2014 budget – a staggering amount when you consider at the time Australia’s international development budget accounted for just over 1% of total budget spend. Earlier this year on a visit to Myanmar, I saw first-hand the positive impact Australia’s… Continue reading Aid cuts undermine regional health security: Australia
The Guardian on seasonal workers: poor journalism
Stephen Howes It’s pretty odd to write an article about foreign farm workers and then exclude the vast majority of them. It’s even stranger when the article is about worker exploitation, and research has found that backpackers are more likely to be exploited than seasonal workers. Ben Doherty’s article in Thursday’s Guardian is headlined “Hungry,… Continue reading The Guardian on seasonal workers: poor journalism
The role of humanitarian academics in a post-truth world
At the end of 2016, Oxford dictionaries made “post-truth” their word of the year. The word encapsulates many phenomena: the role of emotionality in politics, mistrust of public institutions, the perceived isolation, elitism or bias of experts. The rational observation that our perspective on events differs—depending on who and where we are—has transformed into insistence… Continue reading The role of humanitarian academics in a post-truth world
Whither aid? Perspectives from developing countries
Jonathan Pickering, Robin Davies and Annalisa Prizzon A new special issue of the journal Development Policy Review gathers ‘consumer’ perspectives on international development assistance—where the consumers in this case are mainly senior officials within developing country governments. Development co-operation has changed rapidly in recent years. Developing countries have entered an ‘age of choice’ for development finance in which they have access,… Continue reading Whither aid? Perspectives from developing countries
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