Insight · 4 December 2015
Natural capital matters – but how do we use it to influence change?
Sustineo consultant Tom Sloan attended the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources Public Seminar Series presented by Dr Neville Crossman.
Insight · 27 November 2015
Moving with the changing landscape of field data collection – benefiting from a transition to tablets
Sustineo has built a capability in the use of tablet-based data collection with Akvo FLOW, reflecting the wider shift from paper-based surveys to mobile phone and tablet based data collection tools. Our recent experience conducting a survey in the Solomon Islands for...
Insight · 22 July 2015
Aid For Trade: Australia’s New Strategy and Old Challenges
Aid for Trade (AfT) is back on the agenda after the Australian government released the new 'Strategy for Australia’s Aid for Trade Investments' with a focus on the Indo-Pacific region. However, the strategy is not clear on how the challenges and risks will be addressed...
Insight · 15 September 2014
Thinking about Water Differently
The first contribution to Sustineo’s Insight Series, written by Madeleine Plocki, explores the emergence of nexus thinking and its influence on projects within the Asian Development Bank...
Insight · 10 September 2014
Participatory Organisational Capacity Assessment tool now available
There is often uncertainty about how to start capacity building initiatives with partner organisations. To over come this uncertainty, Sustineo has developed a method called the Participatory Organisational Capacity Assessment (POCA). This tool is now available upon...
Insight · 9 May 2012
Is it working? Indicators, goal displacement and the case of the AusAID ARF.
Increasingly, organisations – including government departments – are looking to evaluate the impact of their actions and build an evidence-base around what works. It’s something that’s easy to say but a harder to do: this kind of work requires people to really think...
Insight · 28 March 2012
Remittances & Economic Growth: Larger Impacts in Smaller Countries?
The paper finds that remittances have a positive impact on growth in Small Island Developing States (SIDS), but not in other countries. The result for the Pacific is striking suggesting that without remittances these countries would have recorded an average growth rate...
Insight · 14 November 2011
The Latest UNDP Human Development Index Rankings: Further Evidence of Paradise Lost?
The UNDP has just released the Human Development Report. Eight of nine Pacific countries listed in the HDI are in the bottom 40 percent and PNG is in the bottom 20 percent with many African nations. What is more disturbing is that HDI rankings for Pacific Island...