COVID mutation fears as vaccine rates lag in poorer nations Community & Social A new survey of epidemiologists from developing countries has found it would take less than a year for the coronavirus to mutate again.
McGowan backs crisis fund as India hits more than 350,000 positive COVID-19 cases per day Tuesday May 18, 2021 By Melissa Coade Foreign Affairs & Immigration WA's local community organisations working to provide on-the-ground support responding to India’s COVID-19 crisis are eligible for state funding assistance.
Hunger crisis for 270 million facing famine, NGOs warn Wednesday April 21, 2021 By Melissa Coade Foreign Affairs & Immigration A group of 200 NGOs have published an urgent letter calling for world leaders to provide aid for food relief to the UN’s 2021 food…
Australia’s solidarity for Cambodia as capital goes into lockdown Friday April 16, 2021 By Melissa Coade Federal Australia’s Ambassador to Cambodia, Pablo King, has shared a video message on Twitter to wish people a COVID-safe Khmer New Year as its major city…
Australian public support health aid for PNG Monday April 12, 2021 By Melissa Coade Federal YouGov polling indicates overwhelming public support for the Australian government to help PNG stop the spread of COVID-19.
DFAT launches new policy for Indo-Pacific pandemic response and recovery Friday May 29, 2020 By Shannon Jenkins Federal The policy document states the federal government will reshape its development program to establish a new COVID-19 response and recovery partnership with the Indo-Pacific.
The complex intersection between aid facilities and aid effectiveness Thursday May 2, 2019 By Stephen Howes Features Are aid facilities having a positive or negative impact on aid effectiveness? The increasing reliance on facilities has become controversial in the Australian aid program.
Rebrand and boost foreign aid, parliamentarians urge Monday April 8, 2019 By David Donaldson Federal A lack of public support for foreign aid makes it hard to increase the budget. Could renaming and reframing it help?…
APS tenders call for executive coaches, plus designers, reviewers and evaluators Wednesday March 27, 2019 By Stephen Easton Federal Leaders at the top level of the Australian Public Service will soon have a go-to list of executive coaches, and separately, foreign aid officials are…
DFAT innovation lab needs help plugging the aid budget with private investment Friday August 31, 2018 By Stephen Easton Federal While Australia’s foreign aid budget has shriveled to the smallest share of national income ever in the past five years, the Department of Foreign Affairs…
InnovationXchange: 'difficult to assess' Julie Bishop's pet project Monday August 6, 2018 By David Donaldson Features Projects that vanish, ministerial over-involvement and a lack of evaluation: there appear to be some major problems with secretive aid initiative InnovationXchange, a new report…
Eight lessons on innovation from Obama's administrative head Tuesday March 27, 2018 By Stephen Easton Communications & Technology Not everything went according to plan in a push towards innovation, online platforms and administrative efficiency during the Obama administration, but progress was made and…
Can shared value help solve our wicked problems? Monday April 11, 2016 By Tom Burton Features FEATURE: Government can gain huge advantage from working with the shared value movement. Co-design can benefit everyone, but first the public service must confront…
Fix DFAT culture to retain foreign aid skills: stakeholders Thursday February 11, 2016 By David Donaldson Foreign Affairs & Immigration DFAT needs to focus on retaining aid staff and replacing those who left after the department's absorption of AusAID, say experts who worry our aid…
Inside DFAT's independent evaluation experiment Friday June 5, 2015 By Stephen Easton Features When AusAID joined DFAT, it brought one of the federal government's most successful evaluation teams with it and its only independent evaluation committee. Now the…
