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Australia Awards Cambodia Executive Skills for Inclusive Development

Square Circle delivered the Digital Regional Delivery of the Short-Term Award in Executive Skills for Inclusive Development for executive and senior leaders from Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar. Delivered for Australia Awards Cambodia, the program drew on a range of digital modalities and learning platforms to support Australian Alumni to advance ...

Migration and Conflict in Solomon Islands

Like other Small Island Developing States (SIDS), Solomon Islands has been identified as being particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and the increasing frequency of extreme weather events. Climate related challenges in Solomon Islands include sea level rises, salt intrusion, costal erosion, flash floods, landslides, cyclones and storm ...

The Science and Practice of Sustainable Development MOOC

The Science and Practice of Sustainable Development is part of the Leadership in Global Development MicroMasters® Program offered by The University of Queensland (UQ). The course is oriented towards professionals and leaders in development practice, offering an introduction to key concepts underpinning sustainability, and its application in practice. Square Circle in ...

Subnational Governance, Transparency and Reporting in the Mining Sector

As Papua New Guinea (PNG) struggles to transition its natural resources into inclusive and sustainable forms of development, the taxes, fees and levies collected from extractive projects provide much needed revenue to the national government. These ‘resource rents’ help the national government to fund basic services to its citizens—many of ...

Short Courses in Leadership, Governance and Development

Square Circle’s Dr Michael Spann, Dr Kamil Shah, Dr Tim Grice and Dr Joseph Hongoh have been contracted by the University of Queensland (previously as individuals and subsequently as Square Circle) to teach into a range of professional short course programs run through The University of Queensland’s Institute of Continuing ...

Australia Awards Africa: Stay Connected and Reintegration Workshops

Square Circle expanded its involvement with the prestigious Australia Awards program when it was subcontracted by The University of Queensland to design and lead the ‘Stay Connected’ and ‘Reintegration’ workshops for approximately 300 leading African scholars studying in Australian universities in 2019, 2020 and 2021. The Stay Connected workshops focused on ...

Pacific Leadership and Governance ‘Precinct’ Tracer Study

Continuing Square Circle’s central involvement with The Pacific Leadership and Governance Precinct (the Precinct) in Papua New Guinea (PNG), we were subcontracted by the University of Queensland to lead a Tracer Study to evaluate the Precinct’s contribution to ethical values-based leadership in PNG. This Tracer Study provided evidence of the ...

Evaluating the Impacts of Infrastructure Investments in PNG’s Justice Sector

Among the many challenges to service delivery in Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) justice sector, the lack of fit-for-purpose and inclusive infrastructure deserves some prominence. When a police station is dilapidated and there is no accommodation for senior police, the provision of policing services is problematic at best. When there are ...

Market Scan for Australian Extractives Development Assistance

For developing countries rich with mineral resources, the extractives sector has the potential to boost government revenues while creating positive local impacts. Yet without an effective, transparent and well-resourced policy and regulatory regime, the potential benefits of extraction can be eroded or lost to corruption, social conflict, ecological degradation and ...