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 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...
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Shifting the View: Attracting Private Finance for Climate Adaptation
Priyanka Sunder
27 Jun, 2016
Attracting private finance for climate change adaptation projects in vulnerable countries is a challenge the Green Climate Fund Board must seriously tackle to meet its mandate....
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Aid Cuts End Successful African Project That Reached 2.3m Marginalised People
Phillip Walker, Anglican Overseas Aid
23 Jun, 2016
A highly successful African community development project that reached more than2.3 million marginalised people will come to an end this month. The Government’s Australian...
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The SDGs - It’s about people, not targets.
Jenny Vaccari
10 Jun, 2016
Take a look at the satellite photograph of the Indonesian archipelago at night accompanying this blog. Does knowing that Indonesia experiences significant levels of energy...
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Making Change Happen – Be Part of Unique Professional Development Opportunity
Stephanie Koorey
02 Jun, 2016
Being part of a movement to bring about united positive change, for a just, equitable and sustainable world is central to ACFID and its members. That’s why we’re...
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Istanbul humanitarian summit aims for peaks, lands in foothills
Marc Purcell
30 May, 2016
Istanbul is a city living under the shadow of the war in neighbouring Syria. A bomb blast in the heart of the historic tourist centre earlier this year killed several people...
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Aid Cuts Hurt Transparency
Jessie Cato
26 May, 2016
On May 6th 2016, just before the Turnbull Government entered caretaker mode, it announced Australia would implement the Extractives Industries Transparency...