REPORT: Australia’s ‘New Aid Paradigm’: Beyond ODA?
Since the election of a conservative Government in late 2013 the Australian aid program has been radically transformed. Under the Government’s ‘new aid paradigm’ it is difficult to recognise aid as having a meaningful development mandate beyond promoting the private...MEDIA RELEASE: Australian Aid Monitor Releases Report Card on the Aid Program Under the Liberal/National Government
AID/WATCH, an independent watchdog on aid and trade has released a report card of the Australian aid program under the coalition. The report card shows that under the Liberal/National Coalition aid has not only reduced at an unprecedented rate, the lowest level as a...AID/WATCH contributes two chapters to Global Reality of Aid Report
The International Coordinating Committee for the Reality of Aid Network today launched the 2014 Global Reality of Aid Report on the side of a meeting to discuss the “modernization of the concept of Official Development Assistance” between CSO members of...There are problems with foreign aid, but Bishop has solved none of them
An “overhaul” of Australia’s foreign aid program is largely not new, and fundamentally fails to address the difficult questions on how to make aid more effective. Aid analyst Thulsi Narayanasamy unpacks the policy.