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WFP trucks, North Darfur (Albert Gonzalez Farran/UNAMID/Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Renewing the humanitarian enterprise

May 25, 2017

by Paul Ronalds

Libya Celebrates "Tripolitanian Republic" Declared against Colonial Rule (Flickr/UN Photo/Iason Foounten CC BY NC ND 2.0)

Africa’s democratic failure

May 24, 2017

by Andebrhan Welde Giorgis

All for one hands (Vimeo)

Partnering agreements: Effective relationship management in complex development programs

May 23, 2017

by Nicola Nixon, Julie Mundy

Texting, Dadaab Refugee Camp (Internews Europe CC BY NC ND 2.0)

Messaging apps: the way forward for humanitarian communication?

May 22, 2017

by Andrea Lunt

SDG 17: It’s not about transactional partnerships

May 22, 2017

by Philippa Smales

Jacqui de Lacy at 2017 Aid Budget Breakfast

Aid, deep thinking, and national security

May 19, 2017

by Jacqui de Lacy

Has the budget emergency gone away? Implications for future funding of Australian aid

May 19, 2017

by Anthony Swan

The Earth at night in 2016 (image: ESRI,/Lights On Lights Out)

Fortnightly links: universal basic income, REDD+, IDAHOBIT, lights out, and more

May 19, 2017

by Camilla Burkot, Ashlee Betteridge

Open pit of the Rio Tinto Rossing uranium mine, Namibia - June 2013 (jbdodane/Flickr CC BY NC 2.0)

Opening Australia’s extractive data for development

May 18, 2017

by Jessie Cato

PNG and the Pacific

Etelvina Vita Da Costa, 15 (centre), outside the new toilet block at Ailuli Pre-Secondary School in Same, Manufahi District, Timor-Leste (WaterAid/Greenwood)

Prioritising periods and preventing unwanted pregnancy: addressing menstrual and reproductive health in Timor-Leste and Papua New Guinea

May 26, 2017

by Batya Atlas, Chelsea Huggett

Devpolicy seeks casual Research Officer on labour mobility

May 23, 2017

by Ashlee Betteridge

Lucas Kiak speaking at Unitech

The future starts today

May 19, 2017

by Lucas Kiak

Gerehu market, Port Moresby (UN Women Papua New Guinea/Kim Eaton/Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

As election looms, PNG political parties should consider supporting informal economy

May 17, 2017

by Busa Jeremiah Wenogo

Guangzhou night (wallace_Lan/Flickr CC BY NC ND 2.0)

Rising to the challenge of the Asia Pacific Century: proposals for the Pacific region

May 15, 2017

by David Morris

Farm shed (Feral Arts/Flickr CC BY 2.0)

Cleaning up the horticultural labour market: two breakthroughs

May 12, 2017

by Henry Sherrell

Bougainville Healthy Community Program

Rubi Miranka and the Bougainville Healthy Community Programme

May 9, 2017

by Lhawang Ugyel

APTC graduates, Port Moresby (Jacqueline Smart, AusAID/DFAT/Flickr CC BY 2.0)

Aid for migration: second time lucky with the Australia-Pacific Technical College?

May 8, 2017

by Stephen Howes, Henry Sherrell

New look and new email options for Devpolicy Blog

May 7, 2017

by Camilla Burkot, Stephen Howes, Ashlee Betteridge

PNG midwife and patient (image: Susan Crabtree)

Midwifery and maternal health in Papua New Guinea

May 5, 2017

by Susan Crabtree