Offering social assistance programs has become an increasingly prominent strategy to alleviate poverty in many parts of the developing world, including in Indonesia. Drawing on Indonesia’s decades-long experience in developing social assistance programs, government officials and a leading evidence-based policy research institution, The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Southeast Asia (J-PAL SEA), highlight proven methods to address key emerging challenges and improve anti-poverty programs. 

Panellists: 
Dr Vivi Yulaswati, Senior Advisor to the Minister of National Development Planning for Social Affairs and Poverty Reduction of Indonesia (Bappenas)
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Dr Elan Satriawan, Chief of Policy Working Group, National Team for the Acceleration of Poverty Reduction (TNP2K) of Indonesia
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Lina Marliani, Executive Director of The Abdul Latief Jameel Poverty Action Lab Southeast Asia (J-PAL SEA)
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Chair:
Professor Budy Resosudarmo, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University

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The language and theory of ‘aid’ is outdated. But something like it is still needed as the world faces huge common challenges, new and old. In this keynote address, Jonathan Glennie sets out a new approach for the 21st century: global public investment. He proposes five paradigm shifts for the future of concessional international public finance, as the world of international development moves on from an old-fashioned ‘aid’ mentality.

Keynote speaker:

Jonathan Glennie, Principal Associate at the Joep Lange Institute, and writer and researcher on poverty and human rights 

Chair:

Elizabeth Peak, First Assistant Secretary, Human Development and Governance Division, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Introduced by: 

Professor Stephen Howes, Director, Development Policy Centre, The Australian National University

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In this keynote address delivered on 19 February at the 2020 Australasian AID Conference, Alex Hawke, Minister for International Development and the Pacific, outlines the key trends in the Indo-Pacific region affecting Australia’s development partners and shaping its new international development policy. He also discusses Australia’s longstanding commitment to the region and its Pacific step-up, and how Australia will continue to support the region and keep it strong.

Minister Hawke is introduced by Helen Sullivan, Director of the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University. 

Keynote speaker:
Alex Hawke, Minister for International Development and the Pacific

Chair:
Helen Sullivan, Director of the Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU College of Asia & the Pacific, The Australian National University

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Australia’s aid program to PNG is its biggest, its highest profile and most controversial. In this insightful keynote panel at the 2020 Australasian AID conference, Jonathan Pryke outlines the findings of his research into Australia’s aid program to PNG, His Excellency John Kali CMG OBE discusses key changes in the way Australian assistance is being delivered, Terence Wood presents the findings of the third Australian aid transparency audit, and Stephanie Copus Campbell reflects on the panel’s perspectives on delivering development outcomes in PNG.

Panellists:
Jonathan Pryke, Director, Pacific Islands Program, Lowy Institute
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Dr Terence Wood, Research Fellow, Development Policy Centre
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H.E. John Kali CMG OBE, High Commissioner for Papua New Guinea to Australia
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Stephanie Copus Campbell, CEO, Oil Search Foundation

Chair:
Anthea Mulakala, Senior Director for International Development Cooperation at The Asia Foundation

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In this keynote address, Dr Radhika Coomaraswamy discusses the evolution of the women, peace and security agenda, from representation and participation of women in peace processes, transformative justice and women combatants to livelihoods and empowerment of women in the post-conflict era and the role women play, and can play, in the prevention of conflict. Drawing on her personal experiences in the field, she explores the dilemmas and day-to-day lived realities of women in conflict and post-conflict theatres of war, and points to some of the challenges that lie ahead for the women, peace and security agenda in the international community.

Keynote speaker:
Dr Radhika Coomaraswamy, lawyer, diplomat and human rights advocate

Chair:
Dr Jeni Klugman, Managing Director, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security

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In 2019 the Nobel prize for economics went to three economists who have promoted the use and importance of Randomised Control Trials (RCTs) in development economics and interventions. But how useful are RCTs in the real world of development assistance? And what more generally needs to be done to improve the quality and impact of impact evaluations, and to promote learning in aid?

Panellists:
The Hon Dr Andrew Leigh MP, Member for Fenner, ACT

Dr Lant Pritchett, Research Director, RISE Programme; Fellow, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University

Dr Jyotsna Puri, Head, Independent Evaluation Unit, Green Climate Fund

Chair:
Professor Stephen Howes, Director, Development Policy Centre, The Australian National University

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In November 2019, Professor Stephen Howes sat down with Michael Kocher and Matt Reed of the Aga Khan Foundation to discuss the work of the Foundation, one of the ten development arms of the Aga Khan Development Network.

Professor Stephen Howes is the Director of the Development Policy Centre at the Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University

Michael Kocher is the global General Manager of the Aga Khan Foundation

Matt Reed is Chief Executive Officer of the Aga Khan Foundation in the United Kingdom

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Family is the basic foundation for social and economic development across the world, and particularly in Papua New Guinea (PNG). However, this foundation is often challenged by family and sexual violence (FSV). In order to support policymaking that fosters healthy, safe and secure families, research was conducted in Lae in 2018 and 2019 to better understand men’s and women’s perspectives of FSV.

Joshua Goa and Dunstan Lawihin of the University of Papua New Guinea discuss the research findings including men’s perspectives of the effects of FSV on their families; how men’s and women’s access and responses to recently established services and laws differ; men’s roles in addressing FSV and its effects on school children; and the strategies men have used for a harmonious home.

The discussion is introduced by research project members Miranda Forsyth, Associate Professor at the School of Regulation and Global Governance at The Australian National University, and Dora Kuir-Ayius, Lecturer in social work at the University of Papua New Guinea.

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Joshua Goa is a Tutor at the University of Papua New Guinea Social Work Strand.

Dunstan Lawihin is a Lecturer in Social Work and Coordinator of Field Education at the University of Papua New Guinea.

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