These are edited remarks from a panel discussion on aid effectiveness at the 2023 Australasian AID Conference, providing a historical perspective on performance management and evaluation in the A...
https://devpolicy.org/australian-aid-effectiveness-progress-over-the-last-two-decades-20240227/
When it comes to aid, the Coalition’s just ended nine-year reign can be divided into two periods: from September 2013, when it came to power, to August 2018, when Julie Bishop resigned as Forei...
https://devpolicy.org/the-coalition-and-aid-a-story-of-two-halves-20220603/
The creation of the Office of Development Effectiveness was announced in Foreign Minister Alexander Downer’s 2006 Aid White Paper. It symbolised the hope and mood of the time: more aid, bett...
https://devpolicy.org/office-of-development-effectiveness-praised-then-abolished-20200925-3/
Does your organisation have an evaluation it would like discussed in a constructive, public forum involving aid and evaluation experts? Devpolicy and DFAT’s Office of Development Effectiveness ...
It is aid’s lot to be a strange amalgam of certainty and doubt. Certainty in the claims splashed across the websites of aid donors, in the brochures of NGOs, and in the speeches of politicians....
https://devpolicy.org/evaluating-australian-aid-evaluations-20161012/
In 2011 I critiqued in The Australian AusAID’s plans to focus aid on building schools and management training for principals in Indonesia. I concluded my critique by arguing for more rigorous a...
https://devpolicy.org/teacher-development-evaluations-20160927/
The Office of Development Effectiveness (ODE) within DFAT is this year marking its tenth anniversary. Back in 2006, the then Coalition government’s White Paper on overseas aid, which came up wi...
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has released its second Performance of Australian Aid report, this one for 2014-15. I commented on the last one (for 2013-14) at last year’s A...
https://devpolicy.org/performance-australian-aid-good-20160519/
The recent Office of Development Effectiveness (ODE) evaluation of the contribution of Australia Awards scholarships to women’s leadership is in many ways a good news story. The evaluation clai...
https://devpolicy.org/scholarships-womens-leadership-privilege-power-measurement-20160420/
#WhatDoesItTake to end the suffering in Syria? In 2011 it was estimated that one million people needed humanitarian aid. In four long years, that number has escalated to 12 million , many of whom...
https://devpolicy.org/evaluating-australias-syrian-response-will-dfat-act-20150421/