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One of our aid and development experts, Terence Wood, contributed to the Development Intelligence Lab's Intel question this week: Is long-term planning still a viable strategy or just a comfort blanket?

Read all the responses here:
https://t.co/45cmpV5MM6

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"The starting point for any analysis is to recognise that the PALM scheme is not an aid program, where the donor through a managing contractor micromanages the program’s inputs and outputs," says Richard Curtain.

https://t.co/N66YqPLN7Y

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DYK? Devpolicy Blog publishes on Saturdays in 2026. Catch up now!
“It is a remarkably thin level of engagement for a project that risks turning Fiji into a quasi-Quad maritime base,” says Michael Field. “What’s the price Fiji pays for a Quad port?”
Blog: https://t.co/c0Mcf9Ytg7

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“While the education system is expanding, it is not expanding at the same speed as the youth bulge in population,” say Ponnusamy Manohar, David Mo & Loretta Dilu from UPNG. “PNG remains an outlier in the Pacific, with extremely low tertiary participation.”
https://t.co/t6RFe4QUy7

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🚨Registration closing soon!
Join us as Issabelle Vilau presents “Voters’ participation in PNG: Understanding the nature of women’s participation"

⏰5 June, 12.30-1.30pm PGT / AEST
📍In person @CrawfordSeminar7 or #UPNG or Zoom
📝 Register: https://t.co/vK8bETFgkd

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“Comparative experience suggests that referendum legitimacy depends heavily on the quality of public deliberation before the vote, not just the procedural conduct of voting day itself,” says Lanieta Tukana from the Fiji Political Review.

https://t.co/kwn6u7rnDP

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Thanks Pacific Beat for inviting Devpolicy Blog author and Auckland-based researcher Priyam Singh-Maharaj to discuss her blog about homophobia and educational outcomes in Fiji.

Read blog: https://t.co/NHuJ5wkDUA

Listen to interview: https://t.co/Y4tuXNJpdI

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“The concept of rowing between the reefs — finding a path through choppy geopolitical waters without cleaving to one side of a conflict — has become somewhat of a cliché in international affairs,” says Moses Sakai from @PacificForum.

https://t.co/HTYOBOZVsO

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“It is a remarkably thin level of engagement for a project that risks turning Fiji into a quasi-Quad maritime base,” says @MichaelFieldNZ.

“What’s the price Fiji pays for a Quad port?”

https://t.co/c0Mcf9Ytg7

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🚨Registration open!🚨
Join us as Issabelle Vilau presents “Voters’ participation in PNG: Understanding the nature of women’s participation"

⏰5 June, 12.30-1.30pm PGT / AEST
📍In person @CrawfordSeminar7 or #UPNG or Zoom
📝 Register: https://t.co/vK8bETFgkd

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Devpolicy's May 2026 aid news out now!

Australia's 2026 aid budget rises in nominal terms but falls in real terms, Pacific leaders invoke the Biketawa Declaration over the energy crisis and an Ebola outbreak spreads in central Africa.

https://t.co/mWBFbgt7Vb

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From 26 students who completed their Master of Economics and Public Policy at UPNG, Molly Yokko and Ringwaku Sedrick were recognised as having achieved joint highest GPA scores.

The ANU-UPNG Partnership is funded by the Australian Government through the #PNGAusPartnership.

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“The addition of more legal and institutional machinery to protect the interests of customary landowners is unlikely to put an end to the process through which those interests are betrayed,” says Colin Filer from The Australian National University.

https://t.co/rAOYi0buI1

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🚨Registration open!🚨
Join us as Issabelle Vilau presents “Voters’ participation in PNG: Understanding the nature of women’s participation"

⏰5 June, 12.30-1.30pm PGT / AEST
📍In person @CrawfordSeminar7 or #UPNG or Zoom
📝 Register: https://t.co/vK8bETFgkd

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“The result is a book that is gossipy, scabrous, pointed, darkly amusing, occasionally profound, insightful on the bureaucratic condition and, in highlighting the cruel effects of these decisions, desperately sad,” says Gordon Peake.
https://t.co/hIMOpUxq9I

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“Lifting people out of poverty requires focused interventions supporting benefits at scale from sustained access to essentials like food, clean water, healthcare, education and economic opportunities,” says Robert Cannon.

https://t.co/SuCPsUEUB7

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“The program achieved something that has long proved elusive [in PNG]: it has doubled the number of women giving birth at the supported rural health centres and kept those gains over time, says Dr Glen Mola.

https://t.co/Lh30eKKRzz

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"This crisis won’t be over until every Afghan refugee child in Pakistan is able to open a book without fear," says Mehrullah Rahmani. "Afghan refugees are waiting, not to be given charity but to be given a chance, ... to be granted justice." #afghanistan
https://t.co/z4yiEGfmrt

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🚨Registration open!🚨
Join us as Issabelle Vilau presents “Voters’ participation in PNG: Understanding the nature of women’s participation"

⏰5 June, 12.30-1.30pm PGT / AEST
📍In person @CrawfordSeminar7 or #UPNG or Zoom
📝 Register: https://t.co/vK8bETFgkd

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Caught up on Australian aid? Now get the global picture with Robin Davies talking on the season return of Devpolicy Talks.

Listen now on Apple Podcasts: https://t.co/J0JcVmem2v

Plus other platforms: https://t.co/PvRt36uNQw

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