For close to a decade, Development Policy Centre researchers have studied Australian public opinion about aid extensively. In this paper I summarise what we have learnt. When we started our work, other than headline figures about public support from intermittent surveys, little was known about...

This discussion paper details three main ways children are impacted by sorcery accusation related violence (SARV) in Papua New Guinea (PNG) today. First, it explains that infant and childhood mortality and illness are a major trigger of accusations of sorcery. Second, it identifies a newish and...

We surveyed subsistence food production and cash income from agricultural sources in 30 villages along a 250 km traverse in Western Province and adjacent locations in Southern Highlands Province. Most (27) of these communities are remote with no road access. Here we make suggestions on how food...

District Services Improvement Program (DSIP) funds are constituency development grants which members of parliament in Papua New Guinea (PNG) exert considerable control over. Similar funds exist in a number of other countries, but on a per capita basis PNG’s funds are some of the highest...

The Australia Pacific Training Coalition (APTC) is a major Australian government foreign aid initiative that commenced in 2008, that has spent over $350 million, and that has turned out over 15,000 graduates with Australian qualifications. Analysis of graduate tracer surveys shows that...

The present national population of Papua New Guinea (PNG) is not known. There is no official estimate of the population of the country in 2020 and figures by others are usually between 8 and 9 million people. Our purpose is to make estimates of the likely range of population more readily...

Various interventions have been shown to increase economic autonomy for women and development outcomes, including improved access to banking, entrepreneurship opportunities and financial capability. However, there is limited research on this topic in Papua New Guinea (PNG). This study uses the...

This paper uses a previously unstudied dataset of Australian NGO projects in developing countries to describe important aspects of Australian NGOs’ international work. Topics covered include NGO crowding in small Pacific states, aid fragmentation, whether NGOs sustain their work in individual...