This seems to rhyme with a concern Iāve had when planning programmes for EAGxAustralasiaāwhat talks and workshops make sense under the āglobal health and developmentā banner?
A very naive categorisation of GHD content thatās easy to put on at EAGx:
Updates from a particular organisation doing direct work.
Often very interesting; risks being too niche. Organisations end up being specialists in the logistics and research of their intervention.
Updates from research organisation (e.g. Institute for Poverty Action) about upcoming promising interventions
Rehash key GHD ideas for the part of the EAGx audience that hadnāt heard it before
This relates to your point (5) aboveāhow much GHD stuff has been āsolvedā?
Itās quite difficult to figure out what content would be exciting to EAGx attendees, and actually pushes their thinking beyond āhere is information about another type of interventionā.
From my position, it seems like other cause areas are grappling with bigger, more fundamental and less āsolvedā questions that make it easier to find relevant content for an EAGx audience.
But, one thing Iām taking from this postāthere are still GHD topics to grapple with (systems change vs direct delivery, cash benchmarking, other career paths, funding transparency /ā scrutiny). Going to take inspo from this when planning our 2026 conference programme.
This seems to rhyme with a concern Iāve had when planning programmes for EAGxAustralasiaāwhat talks and workshops make sense under the āglobal health and developmentā banner?
A very naive categorisation of GHD content thatās easy to put on at EAGx:
Updates from a particular organisation doing direct work.
Often very interesting; risks being too niche. Organisations end up being specialists in the logistics and research of their intervention.
Updates from research organisation (e.g. Institute for Poverty Action) about upcoming promising interventions
Rehash key GHD ideas for the part of the EAGx audience that hadnāt heard it before
This relates to your point (5) aboveāhow much GHD stuff has been āsolvedā?
Itās quite difficult to figure out what content would be exciting to EAGx attendees, and actually pushes their thinking beyond āhere is information about another type of interventionā.
From my position, it seems like other cause areas are grappling with bigger, more fundamental and less āsolvedā questions that make it easier to find relevant content for an EAGx audience.
But, one thing Iām taking from this postāthere are still GHD topics to grapple with (systems change vs direct delivery, cash benchmarking, other career paths, funding transparency /ā scrutiny). Going to take inspo from this when planning our 2026 conference programme.