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Egyptian farmers in a potato field

US Investment Unlocks Trade-Ready Opportunities in Egypt

Impact Brief
Egypt’s agriculture sector is becoming a commercially viable trade partner—with lower post-harvest losses, higher yields, and more private investment from U.S.-aligned firms.
pastors Tania and Clement Parenduo

Smoke-Free Cocoa Opens Premium Export Opportunities for PNG

Impact Brief
A low-cost solar innovation is raising incomes, reducing labour, and putting Papua New Guinea’s smallholder cocoa growers on the premium export map.
Fighting on Their Front: Ukraine’s Women Entrepreneurs Are Fueling a Wartime Economy

Fighting on Their Front: Ukraine’s Women Entrepreneurs Are Fueling a Wartime Economy

Impact Brief
How investing in growth for all pays dividends in Ukraine.
Abt Applies Buyer-led, Market Systems Approach in Cambodia

Abt’s Buyer-led, Market Systems Approach to Cambodian Horticulture

Project
Millions of Cambodians have risen from poverty, yet many still live in vulnerable conditions. The government of Cambodia recognized that accelerating the growth of the horticulture sector would bring new opportunities, enabling farmers to benefit from…
women talking in front of a whiteboard

Strengthening Women’s Economic Equality in Southeast Asia

Project
Through its Investing in Women program, the Australian Government seeks to accelerate women's economic equality.
PIPPs team 2026

Strengthening Partnerships Between Australia and Papua New Guinea

Project
Abt Global helps Australian and Papua New Guinean Government aAgencies promote public sector reform and improved governance and stability through strengthened institutional partnerships.
KTA rangers and community members constructing a bridge in papua new guinea

Locally Led, Place-Based Development in Papua New Guinea

Project
The Australia – Papua New Guinea Subnational Program (APSP) supports subnational government engagement in policy dialogue, economic development and service delivery improvements.
customs officials in the Solomon Islands

Reforms Powering Solomon Islands’ Future

Project
The Solomon Islands-Australia Partnership for Governance program supports macroeconomic and fiscal stability through specialised technical assistance.
Philippa Venning

Philippa Venning

Vice President, Program Quality and Strategy
Philippa Venning has more than 25 years of experience working in international development across the Asia Pacific for government, the private sector, multilateral organisations and NGOs.
James Gilling

James Gilling

Regional Vice President, East Asia and Pacific
James Gilling, regional vice president, East Asia and Pacific, has almost 40 years of experience in social and economic development in low- and middle-income countries. He has overseen Australian aid programs worth hundreds of millions of dollars and managed large teams of Australian and overseas staff, including as head of the Australian aid program in Indonesia. James has worked for United Kingdom (UK) and Papua New Guinea governments as an agricultural economist. He has also worked as a consultant economist with Oxford Policy Management in the UK and was an economic analyst with the Office of National Assessments in Australia.