Global development

Rosemary Akinyi Wanasunia, an Agribusiness short course participant in 2017, is a County Program Coordinator at the Agricultural Sector Development Support Program in Kenya. Rosemary’s project had three objectives:

The Effective and Efficient Management of Parliamentary Committees Short Course Award was delivered in 2014 under the Australia Awards Pakistan program. The program was designed to enhance the capacity of middle to senior level public servants managing the Parliamentary Committees of Pakistan’s National and Provincial Assemblies.

The Improving Competitiveness in Tourism project is a capacity-building intervention designed to support regulatory review and reform, raise tourism and hospitality service and accommodation standards, and develop skills to support the inclusive growth of the tourism sector in the Philippines.

The Services Exports Course program aimed to enhance participants’ abilities to identify and promote Indonesia’s services exports. The course assisted key staff from Indonesia’s Ministry of Trade them better understand options for supporting the private sector in realising opportunities to export services’ products.

Dr Michelle Dunn explains the important role universities can play in developing and implementing effective aid programs in the Indo-Pacific region, while empowering communities and governments at all levels.

Mongolia captures the imagination as the home of the legendary Chinggis Khan; a land of rolling steppes and roaming nomads. However, life in Mongolia can be challenging, particularly for the country’s 160,000 herder households that depend on rangeland-based livestock husbandry for their income in a climate that is both extreme and unforgiving.

The Dryland Farming Africa Fellowship supported over fifty awardees from throughout Africa to improve the sustainability of their rainfed farming systems, primarily through appropriate soil and crop residue management.

Muma Bwalya Munansangu, an Agribusiness short course participant in 2017, is a development specialist working for the Citizens Economic Empowerment Commission, a government agency aimed at providing broad-based empowerment to citizens.

The Australia Awards Agribusiness Short Course, designed by The University of Queensland’s (UQ) International Development unit was specifically for participants from 15 African countries, provided learning experiences related to agribusiness to enhance participants’ ability to engage with and influence challenges regarding sustainable economic development in their home country, profession, workplace and community.