Each week on Engage, we aim to share with you a selection of links to articles and stories about the Australian aid program and international development that we find interesting or noteworthy. Here’s a snapshot of online stories this week:

• Our investment in Africa is starting to pay dividends writes Richard Marles, Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island Affairs and Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs.
• What makes an effective non-profit? Akhila Kolisetty puts forward her own ideas based on her experience in the non-profit sector.
• Check out this infographic on The Conversation displaying global refugee populations from 1975 to 2010.
• Alice Newton agrees that transparency about aid is important, but she says we can do much more with development data.
• The water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and HIV sectors share many parallels, writes Vanessa Varonese.

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Each week on Engage, we aim to share with you a selection of links to articles and  stories about the Australian aid program and international development that we find interesting or noteworthy. Here’s a snapshot of online stories this week:

• Jennifer Lentfer writes about community-based organisations in Africa that are providing emotional support to children and families who may not be reached by government or international agencies.
• Foreign Minister Bob Carr wrote an article about Australia pursuing membership of the African Development Bank to help overcome poverty in Africa.
• Jim Terrie poses the question: How far should UN peacekeepers go?
• Sean Mackesy-Buckley writes about the pros and cons of the London Summit on Family Planning and what they mean for the Pacific region.
• Andrew Hewett looks at the current food crisis in the Sahel, where an estimated 18 million are at risk of going hungry.
• La Trobe University has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Afghanistan’s Kabul University. The agreement ‘promotes academic co-operation in teaching, supervision and examination as well as research and staff exchanges of mutual interest’.

Each week on Engage, we aim to share with you a selection of links to articles and stories about the Australian aid program and international development that we find interesting or noteworthy. Here’s a snapshot of online stories this week:

• An Australian writer living in Chile has written a nice piece on her blog about the extraordinary work of two Australian Sisters of Mercy in a very poor district of Lima, Peru.
• Foreign Minister Bob Carr wrote an article about the East Asia Summit: Building our Regional Architecture for the 21st Century.
• Oxfam’s Andrew Hewett on The Drum: Afghan women’s rights are not negotiable.
• On the East Asia Forum, Scott French from Macquarie University writes about microfinance and poverty reduction.
• A new series on Development Impact, a World Bank blog, looks at DFID’s approach to impact evaluation. Part II of the series explores DFID’s approach to funding research and impact evaluations.
• WhyDev launched their new website. Check it out!
• There’s a comprehensive post on the Development Policy blog about putting family planning back on the development agenda.
• PNG: the counting continues from the Lowy Interpreter.
• In an article on The Conversation, Dr Elissa Kennedy from the Burnet Institute talks about family planning in the Pacific.