Devpolicy Talks

In this panel event at the 2020 Australasian AID conference, John Langmore makes the case for stronger government and civil society commitment to conflict prevention and peacebuilding. Joanna Pradela argues that Australia should adopt a feminist approach to foreign policy, one that is grounded in gender equality. Pierre van der Eng analyses the rapid expansion of Australia’s foreign aid to Indonesia during the 1960s and 1970s in the context of Australia’s evolving foreign policy towards Asia. And Dave Green and Kaisha Crupi report on their analysis of Aid Program Performance Reports, including their purpose, how well they deliver on their purposes, the challenges associated with balanced public reporting on program performance, and the tension between public diplomacy and performance management objectives.

Presenters:

Security through sustainable peace (at 2:50 in)
Professor John Langmore AM, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne, and Dr Tania Miletic, Research Fellow, Melbourne School of Government, University of Melbourne 

Feminist foreign policy: A new approach for a new era (at 15:38 in) 
Joanna Pradela, Director, Knowledge Translation, International Women's Development Agency (IWDA), and Alice Ridge, Research Policy and Advocacy Adviser, IWDA 
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‘Send them a shipload of rice’: Food aid and Australia-Indonesia bilateral relations, 1960s–70s (at 29:35 in)
Dr Pierre van der Eng, Associate Professor, Research School of Management, The Australian National University
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Where’s the dirty laundry? DFAT APPRs and the public diplomacy imperative (at 44:24 in)
Dave Green, Principal Consultant, Clear Horizon and Kaisha Crupi, Consultant, Clear Horizon
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Chair: 
Professor Caitlin Byrne, Director of the Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University

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In the Pacific over the past three decades, women’s domestic violence services have led advocacy for policy for increased gender equality, women’s human rights and in engaging men and boys as allies and advocates in prevention of violence against women. In partnership with regional governments, development partners and Australia’s aid and development resources, this model has provided agency, leadership and generated a significant shift towards building support and a more strategic approach. This panel of experts discuss their views on how best to engage men and boys for primary prevention of violence against women.

Panellists: 

Melkie Anton, male advocate for ending violence against women and development project adviser

Abigail Erikson, Program Specialist, UN Women 

Amy Gildea, Managing Director Asia and Pacific, Coffey International Development 

H.E. John Kali CMG OBE, High Commissioner for Papua New Guinea to Australia

Chair: 

Glenn Davies, Director, Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion Asia and Pacific, Coffey International Development 

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In November 2018, the Australian Government announced the Pacific step-up, taking its engagement with the Pacific to a new level. Despite this shift, new research finds that many people in the Pacific are concerned Australia does not know how to engage successfully as part of the Pacific community. 

This panel event at the 2020 Australasian Aid Conference outlines the key findings of research commissioned by the Whitlam Institute on the views of Pacific islanders from Fiji, Vanuatu, and the Solomon Islands on their countries’ and region’s future place in the world. The panel explore how these three island nations perceive Australians and the government’s policies and interventions in the Pacific, and makes some recommendations. 

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Panellists:

Dr Tess Newton-Cain, Principal, TNC Pacific Consulting

James Cox, Executive Director, Peacifica

Dr Geir Henning Presterudstuen, Lecturer, Anthropology, Western Sydney University

Linda Kenni, Local Consultant, Vanuatu

Chair:

Leanne Smith, Director, Whitlam Institute

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The welfare gains from increasing cross-border labour mobility are likely to be several times larger than those from complete trade liberalisation, offering significant benefits to migrants, receiving, and sending countries. This panel outlines the case for international labour mobility, summarises the lessons learned from the first year of Australia’s new Pacific Labour Scheme, and provides an overview and initial assessment of recent recruitment reforms in Papua New Guinea.

Panellists:
Farah Hani, Senior Policy Analyst, Labor Mobility Partnerships team, Center for Global Development
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Danielle Heinecke, First Assistant Secretary, Pacific Operations and Development, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade 

Dr Matthew Dornan, Senior Economist, World Bank
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Chair:
Dr Ryan Edwards, Senior Policy Fellow, Development Policy Centre, The Australian National University

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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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