One year ago, the Australian Government released the nation's first international development policy in a decade. The Lab’s Heather Murphy, Bridi Rice and Richard Moore have taken a look at what's happened since. This week, we’re launching a new brief: International Development Policy - One Year On. In it, we've highlighted progress to date, what's still to come, and what we’ll be watching for in the next twelve months – and beyond. Read it here: https://lnkd.in/dAayQv47 Sign up to receive Lab analysis straight to your inbox: https://lnkd.in/gZAUbChM
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CEO Development Intelligence Lab I Fulbright Scholar I Non-resident expert @NSC_ANU and @CSIS
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"What distinguishes Dragonfly Thinking from conventional #AI tools is its cognitive architecture, which is layered over large language models like ChatGPT." "The platform’s ability to analyse issues from multiple perspectives could also help address a common criticism of development programming – that it often reflects donor preconceptions rather than local realities." Miranda Forsyth from School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), Bridi Rice from Development Intelligence Lab https://lnkd.in/gduTCgrT #AAC2024 The Asia Foundation Peter Yates Anthea Mulakala
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The Lab’s CEO Bridi Rice was thrilled to share our journey with AI thus far and launch our plans for 2025 at AAC yesterday, alongside Prof Miranda Forsyth of Dragonfly Thinking. Join us for our 2025 AI in development discussion group - by emailing us at hello@devintelligencelab.com. And if you’ve got a challenge in mind, we’re looking for partners and problems to turn our team of Dragonfly tools and top notch human analysts loose on. Reach out.
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Great to see our latest analysis ‘Balancing Act: 25 years of Australian international budgets’ shared in Indev Weekly. The Lab’s William Leben, Ruby Saulwick and Bridi Rice have been digging through the archives. This policy brief compiles, for the first time, 25 years of international budget data across key areas, including: 🔴 Official Development Assistance (ODA), 🔴 foreign affairs and trade, 🔴 the National Intelligence Community (NIC), 🔴 the Department of Defence, and 🔴 the Australian Federal Police (AFP). The numbers prompt us to ask: Is Australia striking the right balance in our international engagement? Dive into the brief ‘Balancing Act: 25 years of Australian international budgets’ here 👉 https://lnkd.in/gh2TaR9E Sign up to receive Lab analysis straight to your inbox here 👉 ow.ly/k8kB50T1G5Z
Whats happened this week in Global Development for the Asia Pacific? Check out the latest updates and insights in InDev Weekly: 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫? ► DFAT releases International Disability Equity and Rights Strategy - The Strategy introduces Australia’s first performance target for disability equity in the international development program. Additionally, it will invest $12 million to expand access to assistive technology including hearing aids, wheelchairs and communication devices. ► Government releases ‘Pursuing the Priorities of the Pacific’ Inquiry report - The Australian Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade has tabled their report from the ‘Inquiry into Australia’s alignment with the priorities of Pacific Island countries’. The report, titled Pursuing the Priorities of the Pacific makes a number of recommendations around Australian Aid , immigration and climate finance. ► The US and Fiji have signed a new defence pact - including almost $5 million from the US to help support Fiji's military modernisation, and signed a new deal to bolster "bilateral logistics cooperation" 𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 ► International Court of Justice to begin hearings in landmark climate change case started by Vanuatu students ► International criminal court seeks arrest warrant for Myanmar junta chief 𝐈𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐡 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐬 ►► The “polycrisis” is paralyzing only for those who are attached to the old order of mechanistic and colonial thinking. For those who are not, it offers a “polytunity” to usher in new paradigms that invert the way we think about the development process, the sources of solutions, and the role of the state. Yuen Yuen Ang explores how we can be doing Development in the Polycrisis. ►► According to the 2024 Global Report on Internal Displacement, at least 6.6 million people worldwide were displaced by weather-related disasters by the end of 2023. However, many were displaced multiple times primarily due to floods, storms, droughts and wildfires, resulting in a total of at least 20.3 million forced movements throughout the year. Al Jazeera examines the 359 million weather-related displacements recorded worldwide since 2008. ►► Foreign Minister Wong repeatedly declares an “ambition in our statecraft” for Australia to confront uncertain times. But Australia’s international budget books don’t match the ramped-up rhetoric of Australian leaders when it comes to using “statecraft”. Indeed, “statecraft” has become something of a motif to justify Australian foreign, development and defence policy. Treasurer Jim Chalmers has also gone so far as to say economic policy is “almost indistinguishable” from foreign policy. But a new report released from Development Intelligence Lab shows this commitment to be mixed. Want to get news delivered to your email box every Monday morning? Subscribe to InDev Weekly – https://indev.media #InDevWeekly #InternationalDevelopment #InDev
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Come along! Australasian Aid Conference 2024, Tomorrow to Thursday! Come and join the Lab this week as we launch, discuss, debate & pitch our analysis at the Development Policy Centre's AAC 2024. 🔴 Tuesday 3rd Dec. 3:10pm in the Acton Theatre - Mira Sulistiyanto is launching the Pulse Check x SEA in ‘Partner of choice? Southeast Asian views on Australia as a development partner’ 🔴 Tuesday 3rd Dec. 4:20pm in the Molonglo Theatre - Bridi Rice & Miranda Forsyth are launching ‘Putting AI in AID: Dragonfly Thinking and Development Intelligence’ 🔴 Thursday 5th Dec. 9:00am in the Acton Theatre - Martina Zapf on panel ‘Australian aid: statecraft, contest, and public opinion’ discussing “The costs of contest: how geostrategic competition and fragility interact” 🔴 Thursday 5th Dec. 1:00pm in Molonglo Main stage - Bridi Rice chairing Richard Moore, Benjamin Day and Jacqui De Lacy on panel 'The end of the development era: causes, consequences, pathways forward’ 🔴 Thursday 5th Dec. 3:00pm in the Molonglo Theatre - Bridi Rice on panel ‘Forecasters, unite! Anticipating and meeting the needs of the future development sector’ 🔴 Thursday 5th Dec. 4:30pm in the Molonglo Theatre - Martina Zapf in 3MAP pitching “Organisational culture: the missing piece in the locally-led development puzzle” We look forward to seeing you there.
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Is Australia putting its best foot forward in low- and middle-income countries in the near region? In the Lab’s latest brief, William Leben, Ruby Saulwick and Bridi Rice pull together detailed budget comparisons across Australia’s international affairs portfolios since 1999. It won’t surprise anyone that Defence spending outweighs all other areas. But the story is much more nuanced and interesting than that: 🔴 The Australian Federal Police is budgeted about three times what it was in 1999. 🔴 Growth in intelligence community budgets has been the most significant in relative terms, with 2024 levels more than five times that of 1999. 🔴 In contrast, the current Overseas Development budget stands at about 1.4 times the 1999 level. Dive into the brief ‘Balancing Act: 25 years of Australian international budgets’ here 👉 https://lnkd.in/gh2TaR9E Sign up to receive Lab analysis straight to your inbox here 👉 ow.ly/k8kB50T1G5Z
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Meet the Lab! Riza Gallon is our Executive Assistant. She is astoundingly organised & a brilliant communicator, bringing the Lab team together & ensuring our work runs smoothly. Riza has over ten years’ experience in similar roles with companies in the United States and Philippines. At the Lab, we think Riza’s superpower is her ability to pick up new skills and work with everyone in our team across all of our projects. She brings a warm sense of humour and rigour to the team which elevates our work across the Lab. Right now, Riza’s working on: 🔴 Supporting Mira Sulistiyanto and team to correspond with just under 400 Southeast Asia experts on the Pulse Check project 🔴 Keeping Lab CEO Bridi Rice on task!
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Come along! At the Lab we love practical and innovative ideas. That’s why we’re proud to sponsor this year’s 3 Minute Aid Pitch (3MAP) at the Australasian Aid Conference 2024. Time: 4:30pm on Thursday 5th December Place: Molonglo Theatre, Development Policy Centre, ANU Hear pitches from: 🔴 Martina Zapf: “Organisational culture: the missing piece in the locally-led development puzzle” 🔴 Nicol Herbert: “Making cents: reforming how the aid sector delivers cash” 🔴 Stephen Kidd: “From history to action: universal social protection for all in the Asia Pacific” 🔴 Natasha Turia: “2025: the perfect time for an Australia-PNG Engagement Visa” 🔴 Ujjwal Krishna: “’Informing the ‘official mind’: re-thinking who to listen to and what to believe” 🔴 Jack Henessey: “Using beneficiary surveys to improve aid effectiveness” Chaired by Anthea Mulakala of The Asia Foundation. Get your ticket here: https://lnkd.in/g8cZ9eZF
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As many await a public response to the Varghese Review, take a moment to review the Lab's analysis ‘Australia's strategic policy think tank landscape’ published in June by William Leben & Bridi Rice. Read the brief here: https://lnkd.in/gWkrx7eb
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Meet the Lab! Richard Moore is one of our Strategic Advisors. He is an international development expert with a background in the development contractor community, Government, and numerous executive boards. In a previous life, Richard was Australia’s Alternate Executive Director on the Asian Development Bank Board, a Ministerial Adviser, AusAID Deputy Director-General, and First Assistant Secretary on Aid Program Effectiveness and Performance. He brings his wealth of expertise in strategy and policy experience to guide our analysis and research. At the Lab, we love Richard’s wit, ambition, and pragmatism. He brings a critical mind, blended with an unwavering quick witted humour to all of his work with the Lab team. He is also just fun to be around. Right now, Richard’s preparing for: 🔴 Presenting at the AAC 2024 conference in discussion with Benjamin Day and Jacqui De Lacy, chaired by Bridi Rice at 1pm in Molonglo Main stage. 🔴 Working with the Lab to develop an exciting event coming early 2025. 🔴 Assisting in the work of the Pulse Check x SEA with Mira Sulistiyanto, Bridi Rice, Martina Zapf, Manh-Tien Bui, & Rory Betts-McCrae.