WHD2021 comms campaign for the Australian Humanitarian Partnership

Ashlee

In my role at the Australian Humanitarian Partnership Support Unit, I put together a social media campaign for World Humanitarian Day 2021. The theme was the urgent need for climate action to support the world’s most vulnerable.

The campaign included an Adobe Spark interactive on the work the DFAT-supported Disaster READY program undertakes to build resilience to climate-related disasters in Pacific communities, which was shared by Australia’s Humanitarian Coordinator, James Gilling. View the interactive here.

The social media campaign also shared the views of more than 21 humanitarians from across Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Vanuatu, Timor-Leste and Samoa through cross-platform social media content (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram grid and stories). These posts highlighted the impact that climate change was having on Pacific peoples’ work as humanitarians, and in their communities.

Example:

The persistently high cost of Pacific remittances

Ashlee

With Stephen Howes, Ashlee analysed the World Bank’s Remittance Prices Worldwide database to show that, despite efforts by government in Australia and NZ, the cost of sending remittances to Pacific island countries had not decreased in more than two years.

Read the full blog post here.

Ashlee also gave two radio interviews on the findings of the research.

Radio 95bFM Auckland

Radio Australia Pacific Beat

Why do some men rape? Looking for reasons behind gender based violence in Asia and the Pacific

Development Policy Centre

Blog post on the findings of a new UN report on gender based violence in Asia and the Pacific.

Read the post here.

An ex-volunteer’s perspective on improving the Australian Volunteers program

Development Policy Centre

How can the Australian Volunteers for International Development program be improved? Ashlee Betteridge makes suggestions based on her own experience ahead of the ODE review of the program.

Read the blog post.

Listen to Ashlee’s interview on Radio Australia’s Pacific Beat.

Asian Development Bank defies G20 — China Daily, AsiaOne, East Asia Forum, AFR

Development Policy Centre

There’s a strong and welcome trend toward appointing the leaders of major international organisations through competitive processes-except in Asia.

The Asian Development Bank, whose president has just stepped down to head Japan’s central bank, looks set to appoint its new president just as it has always done: in a hurry, behind closed doors, without competition, and from Japan.

Opinion piece by Stephen Howes, Robin Davies and Ashlee Betteridge from the Development Policy Centre on a lack of transparency in the leadership selection process at the Asian Development Bank.

Full piece published in AsiaOne Business, China Daily, East Asia Forum and the Australian Financial Review.

The economic costs of gender-based violence

Development Policy Centre

To mark the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, I wrote this post for the Development Policy Centre Blog on the economic costs of gender-based violence. The blog calls for more comprehensive measures of the full costs of violence at the macro and micro levels and for stronger policy action.