The article draws on research in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand which was led by Elisabeth Jackson in collaboration with local researchers and was commissioned by the DFAT-funded ASEAN-ACT program.
👉 Read the article here: shorturl.at/nWowm
👉 More about ASEAN-ACT: www.aseanact.org
A recently published journal article co-authored by CHSSC Senior Research Fellow Elisabeth Jackson explores how disability shapes vulnerability to trafficking in specific and intersecting ways and draws out the implications for counter-trafficking efforts.
Image depicting two authors of the research paper looking over notes together. The authors are Abner Manlapaz (male) and Cucu Saidah (female). Abner is on the left, looking at the notes that Cucu is holding in her hands.
Persons with disabilities are among those most vulnerable to human trafficking — yet this issue remains underexplored in both research and practice.
👉 Read the submission here: www.latrobe.edu.au/__data/asset...
Can aid prevent conflict? CHSSC Director Lisa Denney and Senior Research Fellow Thushara Dibley say yes.
Their insights draw on their submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade inquiry into the role of Australia’s development program in conflict prevention.
Read more about the UNDP accountability ecosystems project here: www.latrobe.edu.au/socialchange...
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CHSSC researchers have documented the evolution of accountability ‘coalitions’ supported by UNDP in Solomon Islands and Tuvalu. Read them here:
👉 Solomon Islands Fellowship Scheme Action Research Report: shorturl.at/oR9i6
👉Tuvalu Fellowship Scheme Action Research Report: shorturl.at/XmMLI
Read more about this collaboration here: www.latrobe.edu.au/socialchange...
Bringing together six programs across the Pacific and Southeast Asia, the project seeks to understand more about this pathway to change. You can read more about the thinking behind this in a new blog by CHSSC Director Lisa Denney: shorturl.at/VWv3W
As we kick off 2026, the Centre for Human Security and Social Change is starting a new collaboration with the Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to understand how local leaders and coalitions drive change, and how this is experienced locally.
Dr Aidan Craney facilitated an online workshop hosted by the Australia Awards Women Leading and Influencing Initiative.
A repeated theme was the need to recognise young people not just as beneficiaries of development initiatives, but as crucial partners.
Read the summary paper: shorturl.at/QEffh
The Centre for Human Security and Social Change Director Lisa Denney will speak on this webinar on 10 September:
Navigating Crisis with Insight: Why the future of development cooperation needs political economy analysis
Register here: asiafoundation.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
⚠️ New from CHSSC – Aug 2025 Newsletter: shifting power in INGOs, women’s leadership in the Pacific, Vanuatu report launch, the future of aid, upcoming events + more. Read here: mailchi.mp/f03711a17d6f...
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Join the International & Comparative Law Cluster’s 2025 Annual Lecture delivered by UN Special Rapporteur Professor Ben Saul. His lecture will explore the challenges facing international law today.
In response to criticism they are self-interested and neo-colonial in nature, INGOs are pursuing localisation. CHSSC's Dr Glenn Bond and co-authors draw on a multi-year case study to explore how power relations and interests shape these day-to-day practices.
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Have a read of our own Centre Director, Lisa Denney, responding to Development Intelligence Lab’s Intel question this week.
“It is likely that radical simplification has a role to play in some of what future development cooperation looks like – but not all of it”
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Curious about the future of aid in the Asia Pacific? Join us on 14 August when CHSSC, together with La Trobe Asia, will host a discussion on the role of multilateralism, Australian INGOs & decolonisation in the Asia-Pacific. Register for either in person attendance or livestream: shorturl.at/1nGsm
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⚠️ See the latest news from CHSSC - June 2025: shorturl.at/U7mf1 ⚠️
In this Newsletter
➡️ Lowitja Institute International Health and Wellbeing Conference
➡️ Integrating climate resilience into development programming.
➡️ Evaluation of the INKLUSI program in Indonesia
...and more!
We are pleased to share the CHSSC’s Annual Report 2024. The report draws on several of our projects in Indigenous Australia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific highlight how embedding evidence and learning in development programs leads to better development practice and outcomes.
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➡️ Contributing to the development of a Pacific Youth Development Framework on behalf of the Pacific Commission (p.28)
For more information about these and other CHSSC research and evaluation projects, please visit our website: shorturl.at/ltCG5
➡️ Undertaking a UNDP-funded political economy analysis of accountability ecosystems in the Pacific (p. 28). More information: shorturl.at/ptdv3
➡️ Preventing gender-based violence in Timor-Leste through UNFPA-funded research and training (p. 14)
Our featured projects include:
➡️ Supporting Aboriginal-led tracking and learning with the Walpiri Education and Training Trust (p. 6). More information: shorturl.at/1zge4
We’re very pleased that four of our projects have been featured in La Trobe University’s 2024 Impact for Sustainable Development Report.
The report showcases the university’s transformative contributions to global and local challenges: shorturl.at/2BAzi
Emergent ethics? A Pacific approach to research ethics requires continual negotiation.
Read more from Vani Nailumu from Balance of Power here:https://www.developmentstudies.asn.au/2025/06/27/the-emergent-nature-of-ethics-in-research-a-pacific-researchers-experience/
This week, the Lajamanu Good Life Project presented at the Lowitja Conference. Glenda Wayne, Raelene Jigili and Mildred Spencer, supported by Alex Gyles, shared Warlpiri ways of assessing impact—how Yapa define and pursue a good life. The project is a 5-year partnership with CLC. 🔗 shorturl.at/FpkCZ
Lis Jackson & Thushara Dibley travelled to Jakarta to meet research partners, Saraswati & Cakra Wikara Indonesia, for the INKLUSI project. This was the first time face-to-face since 2022!
After reflecting on what we all have learnt in the project, we spent the week identifying stories of change.
