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April 07, 2017 Robin Davies interviews Inge Kaul Pt 2
Robin Davies, Associate Director of the Development Policy Centre, interviews German economist Inge Kaul, a leading thinker on global public goods. This interview forms the basis for a blog post (https://exit.sc/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdevpolicy.org%2Fpublic-enemies-global-public-goods-in-aid-policy-narratives-20170407%2F and Discussion Paper (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2941164) on the issue of aid policy and global public goods. This is part 2 of the interview, you can find part 1 here: https://soundcloud.com/devpolicy/robin-davies-interviews-inge-kaul-pt-1
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1 hr 11 min
April 07, 2017 Robin Davies interviews Inge Kaul Pt 1
Robin Davies, Associate Director of the Development Policy Centre, interviews German economist Inge Kaul, a leading thinker on global public goods. This interview forms the basis for a blog post (http://devpolicy.org/public-enemies-global-public-goods-in-aid-policy-narratives-20170407/) and Discussion Paper (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2941164) on the issue of aid policy and global public goods.
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57 min
April 06, 2017 Understanding how change happens - Duncan Green
Human society is full of would-be ‘change agents’. A restless mix of
campaigners, lobbyists, and officials, both individuals and organisations, are set on transforming the world. They want to improve public services, reform laws and regulations, guarantee human rights, get a fairer deal for those on the sharp end, achieve greater recognition for any number of issues, or simply be treated with respect. Scholarly discussions of change are fragmented with
few conversations crossing disciplinary boundaries, rarely making it onto the radars of those actively seeking change.
Duncan Green’s new book 'How Change Happens', bridges the gap between academia and practice. It brings together the best research from a range of academic disciplines and the evolving practical understanding of activists to explore the topic of social and political change. Drawing on many first-hand examples from the global experience of Oxfam, as well as the author’s insights from studying and working on international development, it tests ideas on
how change happens and offers the latest thinking on what works to achieve progressive change.
In this podcast, Duncan launches the book 'How Change Happens'.
The event was co-presented by the Development Policy Centre, the State, Society & Governance in Melanesia Program and the Research for Development Impact Network and the Development Leadership Program.
Dr Duncan Green is Oxfam Great Britain’s Senior Strategic Adviser. He also teaches on international development at the London School of Economics, where he is a Professor in Practice. He has published two books, From Poverty to Power and How Change Happens.
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1 hr 6 min
March 28, 2017 European Union development policy - Stefano Manservisi
Development aid from donor countries amounts to more than US $130 billion annually. More than half of that amount comes from European Union nations. However, sustainable development cannot be achieved through aid alone. The United Nations’ 2030 Agenda and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda on Financing for Development have underlined the importance of domestic resource mobilisation and investments – both public and private – for sustainable social, environmental, and economic development efforts to take hold. The paradigm has changed and the European Union’s development policy will be adapted within the framework of the European Union Global Strategy for Foreign and Security Policy in the light of the 2030 Agenda and new global challenges and also taking into consideration the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
The Director-General discusses European Union development policy in light of these developments, paying particular attention to the Pacific region.
This event was co-presented by the Development Policy Centre and ANU Centre for European Studies.
Stefano Manservisi is the Director-General for International Cooperation and Development (DEVCO) at the European Commission since May 2016. He previously served as Head of the Private Office of Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Commission Vice-President. In 2014, he was the Head of the Delegation of the European Union to Turkey. Before that, he held other positions at the Commission including as Director-General for Migration and Home Affairs and Director-General for Development and Relations with African, Caribbean, and Pacific States. Stefano Manservisi has been a visiting professor at the University of Bologna, University of Roma III, and the College of Europe.
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59 min
March 07, 2017 World Development Report 2017: Governance and the Law
Speakers: James Brumby, The World Bank; Luis Felipe Lopez Calva, The World Bank; Natasha Smith, DFAT; Dr Helen Szoke, Oxfam Australia; and Professor Veronica Taylor, ANU.
The Oceania launch of the World Development Report 2017, including a presentation of the report and a panel discussion, was held on February 14 as a side event to the 2017 Australasian Aid Conference
The World Development Report 2017 on Governance and the Law explores how policies for security, growth and equity can effectively achieve their goals by addressing the underlying drivers of governance.
Building on the traditional concern about implementation problems resulting from limited state capacity, this report digs deeper to understand also how individuals and groups, with differing degrees of influence in the decision-making arena, bargain over the choice of policies, distribution of resources, and how to change the rules themselves to shape future interactions.
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1 hr 34 min
March 06, 2017 AAC 2017 Opening Address: The Hon Julie Bishop MP
Foreign Minister The Hon Julie Bishop MP delivered the opening address at the 2017 Australasian Aid Conference on February 15, held at Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University. In the address, Minister Bishop announced several new initiatives and spoke of the strategic importance of the aid program.
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28 min
February 28, 2017 The humanitarian system in crisis - AAC 2017
Plenary session, 2017 Australasian Aid Conference
Chair: Stephen Howes, ANU
Speakers: Robin Davies, ANU
Adam Kamradt-Scott, University of Sydney
Phoebe Wynn-Pope, Australian Red Cross
Paul McPhun, Medecins Sans Frontieres Australia
Jamie Isbister, DFAT
The humanitarian aid system is in crisis. It’s a crisis of identity, financing and conduct. Agencies set up to deal with the immediate impacts of traumatic events find themselves have become de facto providers of long-term development assistance to displaced communities. Agencies set up to develop global norms and provide technical assistance to governments are facing pressure to coordinate flash responses to transboundary threats. In aggregate, funding for crisis response falls far short of needs and is ad hoc and short-term. Humanitarian actors are more than ever divided over traditional principles of humanitarian action, particularly independence and impartiality. Many of these problems have been thrown into sharp relief by the civil conflict in Syria and its impacts in surrounding countries over the past five years. Arguably, global summitry in 2015 and 2016 has done little to alleviate the humanitarian aid crisis. In a business-as-usual scenario, will implementing agencies really become better coordinated and more efficient, and donors more generous, flexible and willing to increase support for local actors? This panel discussion will air a diversity of perspectives on the state of the humanitarian aid system and options for improving it. Disagreement is guaranteed. So too are concrete ideas.
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1 hr 32 min
February 27, 20173MAP: The three-minute aid pitch - AAC 2017
Plenary session, 2017 Australasian Aid Conference
Chair: Joel Negin
What does Australian aid need more of, or less of? What are its
ailments and what shape its cures? This panel presents the best, the
most original, the most transformational, the most innovative ideas to
get more bang from the 4 billion dollar buck that is the Australian aid
program. Following the 3-Minute-Thesis format, rival advocates will
battle it out for your vote. For something quick and different, listen to 3MAP: the Three-Minute Aid Pitch.
Order of presentations:
Chris Ostendorf – Leading on social investment in development
Therese Faulkner – Establishing an Australian technical cooperation organization
Ashlee Betteridge – Communicating aid better
Dennis Altman – Integrating rights into foreign policy
Bob McMullan – Establishing an Australian development finance institution for the Pacific
Chris Roche – Building a movement of human rights and planetary defenders
Matt Dornan – Expanding Pacific labour mobility
Camilla Burkot – Lifting aid transparency
Stephen Howes – Funding global medical research
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52 min
February 26, 2017 Asian approaches to engaging the private sector in development cooperation - AAC2017
Plenary session, 2017 Australasian Aid Conference
Speakers: Guo Peiyuan, General Manager, SynTao; Jeon Hyunjin, Manager, Corporate Social Responsibility Team, LG Electronics HQ; Simon Cramp, Director of Private Sector Development, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade; Prabodh Saxena, Principal Secretary, Government of Himachal Pradesh. Chaired by Anthea Mulakala of The Asia Foundation.
Involving the private sector in development cooperation is a priority today not only for many Western countries, but also for many Asian ones. Several Asian providers of development cooperation have vibrant private sectors who are expanding their sphere of influence and practice into development cooperation. Asian companies are often the implementers of infrastructure projects, whether through lines of credit or tied aid. At the other end of the spectrum many Asian multinationals are involved in corporate social responsibility and shared value initiatives in the region. This panel will explore how collaborative approaches with private sector in development are evolving in the Asian context and where further opportunities exist.
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1 hr 25 min
February 26, 2017 Now for the hard part: strategies for enhancing state capability for implementation - AAC2017
Keynote address, 2017 Australasian Aid Conference, ANU
Speaker: Michael Woolcock, Lead Social Development Specialist, World Bank and Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard University
Despite what today’s headlines might convey, life for most people in most developing countries has never been better. This should be rightly celebrated, but improving basic levels of human welfare from a low base was the relatively ‘easy’ part. To consolidate and expand these achievements, the key development challenge remains building the state’s capability to implement incrementally more complex and contentious tasks, at scale (e.g., justice, regulation, taxation, land administration) and those tasks inherently requiring extended forms of human interaction (classroom teaching, curative care). These are fundamentally different types of challenges, however, ones for which our prevailing aid architecture was not designed and on which achievements to date are mostly flat or declining: if current trends continue, only about 10% of those living in developing countries today will have descendants who reside in a ‘high capability’ country by the end of this century. Different types of problems require different kinds of solutions, elements of which will be outlined.
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1 hr 22 min

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