ANU Development Policy Centre presents
Supporting economic reform in Vanuatu: the Governance for Growth program
Forum
ANU Development Policy Centre presents
Forum
9th November 2017
12.30–2.00pm
Acton Theatre, Level 1, JG Crawford Building 132, Lennox Crossing, ANU
Bob Warner, Visiting Fellow, Development Policy Centre
Staff from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Governance for Growth
Free
The Governance for Growth (GfG) program in Vanuatu has been running for ten years, and is about to move into its third phase. Considered to be quite innovative when it was first implemented, the program has supported some significant economic policy and public finance reforms. It has also survived changes to the institutional arrangements for the delivery of Australian aid, and significant shifts in the political landscape in Vanuatu.
The program was recently the subject of two in-depth reviews, one led by the Overseas Development Institute, and the other by a team of Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) economists. These reviews provide an opportunity to consider the successes and failures of GfG, what elements of the model were most useful in supporting success, and whether the lessons of the last ten years have implications for other small island developing states.
These issues will be discussed in a panel session involving:
Links to evaluations of the Governance for Growth program:https://www.odi.org/publications/10864-governance-growth-vanuatu-review-decade-thinking-and-working-politicallyhttp://dfat.gov.au/about-us/publications/Pages/governance-for-growth-final-evaluation.aspx
This event is presented by the Development Policy Centre, a consortium partner of the Pacific Research Program (PRP). PRP is supported by the Australian aid program.