For the first time since COVID, the Pacific Islands Forum has activated its emergency response mechanism. The immediate trigger was not climate, but a regional fuel and transport cost shock linked to ...

This article builds on a previous Devpolicy Blog piece written by Edwin Venu Pedro and Jess Marinaccio, government employees engaged in Tuvalu’s Digital Nation project. They highlighted growing ...

Devpolicy's latest poll on Australian attitudes to aid reveals disappointing, predictable and surprising findings about aid support.

The Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV) provides up to 3,000 permanent residency visas for citizens of up to 12 Pacific island countries and Timor-Leste. To obtain a PEV visa, you first must enter a ballot, ...

The latest OECD reporting on public and private climate finance shows that this finance reached a combined US$133 billion in ...

During her widely reported appearance at the National Press Club last week, One Nation leader Pauline Hanson was asked (at 58:06) about her views on Australian foreign aid spending in the context of ...

What’s in a name? Can a name drive peace? I recently came across a scholar with a fascinating focus: how personal naming practices can be used to promote peace. There is a broad literature on names as ...

Ever since the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, policymakers worldwide have been asking themselves two important questions: how will households cope, and what support do they want from their ...

A recent Senate Estimates discussion between Foreign Minister Penny Wong, Greens Senator David Shoebridge and several Australian Government officials (from ~19:42 here) has revived a simple question: ...

We arrived in Aseki in the dark and rain. The road had already turned to mud. The climb from Lae had taken the full day, but the new road into Kaintiba still lay ahead. Connect PNG can bring roads to ...

People in Kaintiba call their part of Anga’s interior “no man’s land.” Better services, for them, meant being able to stay. One line came up often when people talked about services: “We won’t need to ...