ACFID Blog
The ACFID Blog features opinion articles on aid and development issues by ACFID staff, ACFID Members and a diverse range of other authors.
The purpose of the ACFID Blog is to engage readers in ACFID's work and to inform, engage and influence ACFID Members, the public and the government. Read more
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Australia Ahead of the Curve Blog Series #1: Australia must forge a new path through a rapidly shifting international development landscape
Danny Sriskandarajah
30 Sep, 2016
/This post/ /forms part of ACFID’s blog series on /Australia Ahead of the Curve: An agenda for international development to 2025. /Views contained in.../
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Australia Ahead of the Curve: An agenda for international development to 2025 – What is it all about and how can you be involved?
Alice Ridge
29 Sep, 2016
If you had an idea that would fundamentally change the way we do development for the better, what would it be? Maybe you’d like to see Australian NGOs cede power to local...
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Setting a forward looking agenda - ACFID Conference 2016
Marc Purcell
16 Sep, 2016
For those of us who have been working in the Australian development sector over the past few years, it’s easy to get caught up in the negativity. Australian aid has reached its...
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Are refugee and migrant diasporas the missing piece of the development puzzle?
Melissa Phillips, Honorary Fellow, University of Melbourne
14 Sep, 2016
Are refugee and migrant diasporas the missing piece of the development puzzle? There are...
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Tackling the Aid and Development Images Minefield
Deborah Nesbitt, ACFID Communications & Media Adviser
26 Aug, 2016
In the 90s an infamous image of a starving, helpless child hunched over as a vulture looked on ready to claim it as prey sparked a furious debate within the aid community. The...
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Data and the SDGs: beyond self-assessment
Dr Philippa Smales
04 Aug, 2016
The first Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Report released on July 19 by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon outlines some important points about how the benefits of development...
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Australia should do more to help close the HIV/AIDS gap
Bill Bowtell Executive Director Pacific Friends of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
19 Jul, 2016
Australia can never truly be free of AIDS, or the resurgence of new forms of HIV, until we are free of AIDS and HIV across the world, says Bill Bowtell, Executive Director,...
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The Economics of Poverty by Martin Ravallion: Why Practitioners Should Read this Book
Priyanka Sunder
06 Jul, 2016
ACFID’s departing Senior Policy Advisor Priyanka Sunder is excited by Ravallion’s latest book because it closes a gap in current poverty analysis by showing how economic concepts...
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Turning Our Backs On Old Friends – Australian Aid to Africa Turns To A Trickle
Phillip Walker, Anglican Overseas Aid
30 Jun, 2016
As the Australian Government’s latest harsh aid cuts come into effect, including axing almost all aid for Africa, Anglican Overseas Aid Advisor Phillip Walker describes a visit to...
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Will an incoming government boost Australia’s climate aid?
Jonathan Pickering and Paul Mitchell
28 Jun, 2016
‘How will your party deliver on the Paris Agreement on climate change?’ This was one of ten questions that the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) asked of...