🚨Registration Open Join us as Anna Kapil and Terence Wood presents “2026 Annual Student Opinion Survey" ⏰6 Nov, 12.30-1.30pm PGT; 1.30-2.30pm AEDT 📍In person @Crawfordschool or #UPNG or Zoom 📝 Register: events.devpolicy.org/2026110…

A development specialist returns to Lesotho decades later to find his old water systems still running - and asks why "in-line" placements worked better than today's contractor-run aid facilities. devpolicy.org/ode-to-in-line… #AidEffectiveness #InternationalDevelopment #PNG

PNG has elected just ten women to Parliament since 1975. The three now serving — Rufina Peter, Kessy Sawang and Francesca Semoso — face a historic test in 2027: can any of them become only the fourth woman ever to win re-election? devpolicy.org/papua-new-guin… #PNG

This week: Pacific governments respond to the fuel price shock, and two posts on the Pacific Engagement Visa's first two years, plus PNG students on 50 years of independence and Tonga on practised independence. tractatus.idrys.org/read/dev…

🚶‍♀️Join us at the Australasian AID Conference on 2-4 December! Tickets on sale until 25 Nov 🎟️ events.humanitix.com/2026-au… #AAC2026 program at @ourANU ➡️ crawford.anu.edu.au/devpolic… @asia_foundation @AbtGlobalImpact @ACIAR @AdamSmithInt @Cowater_Intl @devintellab @TetraTech @urcintl

🚨Registration Open Join us as Anna Kapil and Terence Wood presents “2026 Annual Student Opinion Survey" ⏰6 Nov, 12.30-1.30pm PGT; 1.30-2.30pm AEDT 📍In person @Crawfordschool or #UPNG or Zoom 📝 Register: events.devpolicy.org/2026110…

After two years, Samoa has the best Pacific Engagement Visa success rate at 100%, followed by Tuvalu at 96% — but PNG and Fiji take the biggest shares of visas overall. Analysis by @devpolicy. devpolicy.org/two-years-of-t… #PacificEngagementVisa #PacificIslands #MigrationPolicy

Pacific Engagement Visa grants surged in year two, but Australia's 3,000-visa annual cap and ballot over-selection mean some ballot winners may never actually get a visa. devpolicy.org/two-years-of-t… #PacificEngagementVisa #MigrationPolicy #PacificIslands #AustraliaPacific

Tonga's Mele Fakatouato Mangisi argues that in small Pacific societies, where everyone knows everyone, independence can't rest on legal distance alone—it must be actively practised: connections disclosed, risks managed, reasons recorded. devpolicy.org/when-everyone-… #Tonga

🚨Registration Open Join us as Anna Kapil and Terence Wood presents “2026 Annual Student Opinion Survey" ⏰6 Nov, 12.30-1.30pm PGT; 1.30-2.30pm AEDT 📍In person @Crawfordschool or #UPNG or Zoom 📝 Register: events.devpolicy.org/2026110…

"Students see PNG’s development problems as linked to the quality of leadership & governance," says Minetta Daniella Kakarere. "Poor leadership & corruption are not isolated failings but the source of unemployment, weak public services, inequality". devpolicy.org/png-university…

📢 AAC2026 Tickets now available incl dinner only ➡️ events.humanitix.com/2026-au… 2-4 Dec at ANU ➡️ crawford.anu.edu.au/devpolic… @Asia_Foundation | @AbtGlobalImpact | @ACIARAustralia | @AdamSmithInt | @Cowater_Intl | @TetraTech | @urcintl

Pacific governments are cushioning the fuel price shock through social protection systems, not subsidies. Fiji lifted benefits 50% across 6 programs, RMI leans on its universal Enra payment & Tuvalu built a new temporary support scheme. Jesse Doyle #P4SP. devpolicy.org/social-protect…

🚨Registration Open Join us as Anna Kapil and Terence Wood presents “2026 Annual Student Opinion Survey" ⏰6 Nov, 12.30-1.30pm PGT; 1.30-2.30pm AEDT 📍In person @Crawfordschool or #UPNG or Zoom 📝 Register: events.devpolicy.org/2026110…

The real test for Pacific regionalism isn't who showed up at Palau's Leaders Week — it's whether Pacific countries' room to disagree and decide for themselves is quietly narrowing, says Sione Tekiteki. devpolicy.org/dont-mistake-t… #PacificIslandsForum #PacificRegionalism

Samoa's new labour mobility reforms cap worker numbers and spread recruitment across all 51 constituencies — but new data on 18 years of RSE participation shows the policy may undercut its own equity goals by letting returning workers crowd… devpolicy.org/samoas-2026-la…

📢 3MAP extended call for submissions closes this Friday 9 October ➡️ crawford.anu.edu.au/devpolic… Conference tickets on sale now ~ 2-4 Dec at ANU ➡️ events.humanitix.com/2026-au… @Asia_Foundation | @AbtGlobalImpact | @ACIARAustralia | @AdamSmithInt | @Cowater_Intl | @TetraTech | @urcintl

Pacific household data show remittances reach far more poor households than national averages suggest—but the money itself is concentrated among richer households. State assistance reaches fewer poor people, yet sends them a much bigger… devpolicy.org/who-gets-pacif…

🚨Registration Open Join us as Anna Kapil and Terence Wood presents “2026 Annual Student Opinion Survey" ⏰6 Nov, 12.30-1.30pm PGT; 1.30-2.30pm AEDT 📍In person @Crawfordschool or #UPNG or Zoom 📝 Register: events.devpolicy.org/2026110…

New World Bank research finds PNG's food tax cut mostly helped supermarkets and richer households. Of every kina the government gave up, only about eight toea reached the poorest 20% of households. devpolicy.org/pngs-food-tax-… #PNG #FoodPrices #WorldBank #TaxPolicy