Pacific climate change activists are engaged in a race against time as they seek to influence the upcoming COP21 summit. As part of our engagement with Pacific social change movements, we are publishing the following short blog, to help publicise their campaign… Pacific activists Noelene Nabulivou and Miki Wali write: If Australia and New Zealand really cares about the Pacific as a partner, they must … Continue reading Not Drowning, Fighting…
Linda Kelly, Director of Praxis Consultants and co-Director at the Institute, discusses the importance of including those excluded from mainstream development when thinking and working politically. Ongoing research and practice experience suggests that allowing more control and direction by those excluded from mainstream development is often the best way to ensure both innovative and effective development strategies. For example, development work has embraced the idea that … Continue reading Inclusion as innovation
Aidan Craney, PhD candidate at La Trobe University, discusses some of the challenges in providing quick solutions to complex problems. For the better part of the last six months I have been between Fiji and Solomon Islands, conducting fieldwork for my PhD. My research focuses on questions of youth livelihoods in the Pasifika region, where a youth bulge is prevalent. Roughly 20 per cent of the … Continue reading Big problems need lots of little solutions
By Tait Brimacombe In recent years the Government of Kiribati, with support from the international donor community, has made impressive gains in the research and policy space towards the elimination of sexual and gender-based violence. However, the challenge remains of how to implement such policies and legislation within a sector that is notoriously under resourced. The Kiribati Family Health and Support Study (KFHSS), published in … Continue reading SGBV in Kiribati: data – policy – practice
This three-part series by Aidan Craney, PhD candidate at La Trobe University, examines the different perspectives towards finances of people in donor and recipient countries. It looks at current debates about how to improve the efficiency of donor dollars and how to assist poor people in less-developed states to escape extreme poverty. See here for the first blog in this series. 9 April 2015 In 2013, Chris Blattman caused … Continue reading No, Seriously, Free Money
This three-part series by Aidan Craney, PhD candidate at La Trobe University, examines the different perspectives towards finances of people in donor and recipient countries. It looks at current debates about how to improve the efficiency of donor dollars and how to assist poor people in less-developed states to escape extreme poverty. 27 March 2015 To open up the discussion, I will look at a paper from Joseph Henrich, … Continue reading The Cost of Free Money
By Tait Brimacombe 19th March 2015 Art and creative expression have become an activist tool and alternative form of advocacy for young women in Fiji. Through photography, theatre, dance and song, young women are finding new avenues for public expression. These innovative avenues for making their voices heard have great power in a context where women’s mobility and visibility is often constrained by socio-cultural norms. … Continue reading Creative expression and women’s empowerment in the Pacific
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