Aidan Craney, PhD candidate at La Trobe, ponders the role of public-private partnerships and technology in international development. Recently I stumbled across an article discussing how developing country citizens may be impacted by the relationship between public-private partnerships (PPPs) and improved technology for collecting and analysing data. The article from Taylor and Broeders, In the name of Development: power, profit and the datafication of the … Continue reading Private Enterprise and the Public Good

A new book ‘The Politics of Evidence and Results in International Development: Playing the Game to Change the Rules?’, released today, explores the history of the results agenda and its consequences for development practice, and in particular transformational change.  Chris Roche highlights some of the book’s key findings and conclusions, and discusses how we can take the results agenda to the next level.  The UK’s Independent Commission on Aid … Continue reading Taking the Results agenda to the next level?

By Aidan Craney, PhD candidate at La Trobe University I have long been an advocate for utilising qualitative research methods. Statistics and numbers are great at telling us where we are and where we’ve been for given metrics, such as education standards or community sentiment towards marriage equality. But to identify future trends and risks, I believe the best learning takes place at the margins … Continue reading Talk is cheap… and effective

DLP Research Fellow Gillian Fletcher, based at the Institute for Human Security & Social Change at La Trobe University, reflects on taking part in the Australia Awards Welcome and Farewell event in Melbourne on Monday. How can aid better support conflict-affected states (such as Afghanistan) to build locally-owned peace? How can we help to empower people and reduce poverty through programs such as the Australia … Continue reading ‘An intellectual EuroVision contest’