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Research program
Delivering actionable insights on Pacific geopolitics, development, governance, and Australia-Pacific relations to build improvements in the region.
A focus on Pacific Islands has been a central component of the Lowy Institute’s work for more than a decade. We research contemporary challenges facing the Pacific islands region in areas including geostrategic competition, sustainable economic development, governance and leadership challenges, poverty alleviation, and Australia’s relationship with Pacific countries and organisations. We also hold major conferences, workshops, dialogues and exchanges.
We have produced influential work on Australia’s Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands, the 2006 Fiji Coup, normalising Australia’s bilateral relationship with Fiji, Australia’s bilateral relationship with Papua New Guinea, the future development challenges of Papua New Guinea, the economic benefits of greater labour mobility between Australia and the South Pacific, security and resilience dynamics in the Pacific, and foreign aid flows in the Pacific.
A partnership between the Lowy Institute and the Australian National University’s Department of Pacific Affairs (Opens in new window) and Development Policy Centre (Opens in new window), with the support of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. The PRP is designed to be a globally pre-eminent centre of excellence for research on the Pacific.
The program contributes to the Pacific Aid Map which is designed to enhance aid effectiveness in the Pacific. Supported by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, it is the most comprehensive regional aid dataset of its kind, combining publicly available data with open source research.
Supported by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, designed to foster people-to-people links between Australia and Papua New Guinea.
The Lowy Institute Pacific Aid Map is an analytical tool designed to enhance aid effectiveness in the Pacific by improving coordination, alignment, and accountability of foreign aid through enhanced transparency of aid flows. The Pacific Aid Map has collected data on close to 13,000 projects in 14 countries supplied by 62 donors from 2011 onwards. All data has been made freely available on this interactive platform, allowing users to investigate and manipulate the information in a variety of ways. The Pacific Aid Map is supported by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Country profiles for Pacific Islands countries can be found here.
