Australia Ahead of The Curve: An agenda for international development 2025

Australia’s international development sector is at a watershed moment.

We’ve reached the lowest level of Federal Government aid funding ever, at time when global need is growing. Global trends like the rise of Southern donors and local actors are challenging the business models of Australian NGOs. And, new international agreements like the 2030 Agenda will require all actors to think differently about the way we do development into the future.

Australia Ahead of the Curve: An Agenda for International Development to 2025 hopes to stimulate broader, deeper and longer-term thinking about Australian aid and development assistance.

We’re gathering 500-2,500 word think-pieces from the development sector and beyond about how and where Australian aid would be best targeted in the coming decade.

And your opportunity to contribute hasn’t passed! We’re still keen to hear fresh voices on what Australia’s international development agenda should focus on to 2025, and we will continue to gather ideas from interested parties till December 2016.

For more information, please read the author’s brief. If you’d like to contribute we encourage you to get in touch before you start writing and share your thoughts with us. Please contact Alice Ridge on [email protected] or call +61 2 62819223.

Blog Series and Conference Publication

To help stimulate discussion and debate around ACFID National Conference - Impact: A Future International Development Agenda for Australia on 26-27 October - we produced a compilation containing some of the thought-provoking ideas received through the project.

You can read these pieces on the ACFID blog, and download the full publication.

Beyond Conference, we’ll continue the conversation with ACFID members, the government and other stakeholders with a final publication in 2017.

Submissions received

The authors’ ideas presented in these think-pieces do not necessarily reflect the views of ACFID

Not sure where to begin? ACFID CEO Marc Purcell has written a synthesis piece which draws out some of the ideas emerging through submissions. You can also check out this handy list of summaries of the pieces we’ve received so far

Australia's Official Aid Program

NAME	ORGANISATION	TITLE/TOPIC
Paul Bird	AVI	The role of volunteers in building public support for aid
Helen Burrows	Federal Court of Australia	Law and justice as central pillars in responding to global development challenges
Sam Byfield	Senior Honary Fellow Nossal Institute for Global Health; Executive Officer to ANU Chancellor Gareth Evans	Aid and National Interests - Bridging Idealism and Realism
Nicholas Ferns	Doctoral Candidate, Monash University	Should Australia use international development as a means of engaging with the world
Senator the Hon Concetta Fierravanti-Wells	Liberal Party of Australia	Australian aid: relevant, effective and innovative for a changing region
	Fred Hollows Foundation	Joining the dots: Including Indigeneity as a strategic theme of Australia's Overseas Development Aid Program
Susan Harris-Rimmer	Griffith University	Aid, strategy and Australian economic diplomacy
John Langmore	Melbourne University School of Governance	Security through peace and justice
Andrew Leigh & Claire Moore	Australian Labor Party	Agile Aid for Fragile States
Garth Luke	Consultant	A future international development agenda for Australia
Roland Manderson	Anglicare Australia	Overseas aid as strategy not charity
Travers McLeod	Centre for Policy Development	A larger policy community can make Australia a more constructive and influential global player
Stephen McDonald and Sarah Ireland	Centre for Humanitarian Leadership	The Future of Australian Aid and the Humanitarian Perspective
Leanne Smith NEW	Whitlam Institute	LOOKING FORWARD. UP. OUT: AUSTRALIA’S DEVELOPMENT POLICY AND PROGRAMME IN 2025

Climate change and climate finance

NAME	ORGANISATION	TITLE/TOPIC
Paul Mitchell and Jonathan Pickering	Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis	How should Australia's aid program respond to a climate-challenged future?
Heidi Peterson NEW	Oaktree	Behind the Curve on Climate Change
Tony Wood	Grattan institute	Australia's role assisting Pacific small island developing states adapt to climate change

Collaboration

NAME	ORGANISATION	TITLE/TOPIC
Peter Baynard-Smith	Engineers Without Borders	SDGs and private sector collaboration
Denise Cauchi	Diaspora Action Australia	Unlocking the potential of diasporas: a new approach to development.
Kirsten Armstrong	Fred Hollows Foundation	Boosting Private Finance
	Fred Hollows Foundation	Using a Systems Thinking approach to bulid global partnerships
Rhonda Chapman, Linda Kelly, & Tim Ford	Consultants	How to adopt new ways of working for social change
Mark Ingram NEW	Business for Development	How partnering between NGOs and business can keep both organisations ahead of the curve.
Rev Dr Bob Mitchell	Church Agencies Network	ACFID think piece: Sustained relational collaborations
Paul Power	Refugee Council of Australia	Australia's refugee diasporas: new partners in humanitarian action?
Dr Terry Russell NEW	Anglican Board of Mission	Truer, Wider Partnership: an ABM reflection on new directions in international aid
Tari Turner NEW	Monash University	The future of development as seen by a Ninja Pollyanna

Future of Australian NGOs

NAME	ORGANISATION	TITLE/TOPIC
Geordie Fung	Oaktree	An Australia incensed by injustice, not satiated by charity.
Aarathi Krishnan	Australian Red Cross	Future of Australian NGOs and INGOs
Sophia Munro NEW	Yayasan Usaha Mulia	Embracing degrowth and post-development will allow NGOs to engage with grassroots movements
Danny Sriskandarajah	Secretary General, CIVICUS	Australia must forge a new path through a rapidly shifting development landscape countries

Gender Equality

NAME	ORGANISATION	TITLE/TOPIC
Ali Gillies	Former AusAid	Gender based violence and democracy
Megan Morris NEW	Australian Women Against Violence Alliance (AWAVA)	The invaluable role of women’s rights activists, their movements and organisations in responding to development and humanitarian challenges
Ian Wishart	Plan International Australia	Girls are the key to a sustainable development, so why are they still invisible?

Sustainable Development Goals and beyond aid

NAME	ORGANISATION	TITLE/TOPIC
Brendan Crabb & Mike Toole	Burnet Institute	Research as the foundation of health development.
Matthew Dornan	DevPolicy Centre	Labour mobility: Delivering better outcomes for Pacific Islanders
Dr Gillian Fletcher	La Trobe	Sexual rights are an essential component of universal rights
Alan Fowler	Visiting Professor in African Philanthropy, Wits Business School	Championing Against Impunity
Jake Lynch	Department of Peace and Conflict, University of Sydney	Why it'll take more than free information flow to promote peaceful and inclusive societies through media development
Kathryn Michie NEW	WWF Australia	Inspiring individuals for impact
Dermot O'Gorman	WWF Australia	The environmental, economic and social impacts of food insecurity.
Dr Christopher Snedden	Professor, Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (DKI APCSS)	How will Australians determine from others what Australia's role should be in international development?
Lauren Thomas, Rebecca Cain, and Vinita Godinho	Good Shepherd Microfinance	Pathways to resilience: the financial inclusion continuum and economic mobility
Martin Thomas	Habitat for Humanity Australia	Why cities now pose the greatest development challenge of the 21st century
Keren Winterford, Juliet Willetts, Joanne Chong and Damien Giurco NEW	Institute for Sustainable Futures University of Technology Sydney	Development futures and consideration of environmental boundaries are key to the Sustainable Development Agenda

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