XSPI’s Unique Value Proposition Is To Incubate, Seed Or Accelerate Cross-Sector Partnerships Across Asia Pacific Providing Solid, Long-Term, Future Platforms To Create Diverse Development Projects In Close Partnership With National Partners And Aligned With SDG’s.
News
In partnership with Accenture, XSPI has released their latest Sustainable Business Models report. Read now to discover how the latest global environmental, economic, and societal forces are impacting business models.
XSPI is delighted to announce the recent signing of a five-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the High Commission for the People’s Republic of Bangladesh.
Upcoming Webinars
Impact
XSPI is a collective impact approach focused on creating development impact across Asia Pacific among Australia’s business, government, NGO’s/NFP, academia/health/medical research and philanthropy/private capital stakeholder sectors contributing jointly with national partners to international development.
All XSPI facilitated development projects are locally lead and own, aligning with host country SDGs and development plan priorities.
XSPI Is Committed To The UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Key SDG’s reflected across all our current work
XSPI’s 5C’s Approach
XSPI Is A Catalyst, Convenor, Collaborator, Co-Creator, and Coalition Builder.
XSPI’s unique value proposition is to incubate, seed, or accelerate cross-sector partnerships across the Asia Pacific providing solid, long-term, future platforms to create diverse development projects in close partnership with national partners and aligned with the SDG’s.
XSPI’s collective impact approach to supporting expanded Asia Pacific SDG-aligned development and increased impact should increment sector confidence stimulating increased financial commitments.
XSPI is not a project funder or project manager; both roles responsibility for individual project consortiums.
Our Unique Structure
Advisory Council
20 Executives from selected entities across five stakeholder sector provides strategic oversight.
Steering Committee
8 members: Chair, 4 Advisory Councillors & 3 Working groups Convenors providing governance
Research Agenda
Targeted empirical research on key themes critical to XSPI effectiveness, completed pro bono by DFAT New Colombo Plan Scholars, Global Health Alliance, Griffith University, MBS, RMIT, UQ.
Expert Network
36 Strong diverse group of Asia Pacific development and business experts
Bangladesh, Indonesia and PNG Working Groups
Country expert groups (Councillors, Expert Network, Co-opted experts) identify “proof of concept” partnership pilot projects, qualify, endorse & construct partnership consortia
Join Our Collaborative Approach
XSPI’s Current And Proposed Proof Of Concept Projects
PNG
Wall Community Piggery Enterprise
Indonesia
Bali Dengue Fever Elimination
Bangladesh
Dhaka Dengue Fever Elimination & Burns Management Strategy
PNG
Western Province Nutrition
Indonesia
Timor-Leste & Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT) Malaria Elimination
Research Agenda
- Sustainable NGO Business Models
- International Development Knowledge Platform
- Global XSP Leaders
- Private Capital Sector Status
- Stakeholder Sector Activity Mapping
Research Agenda & Progress
Research Agenda February 2023 Status
Stakeholder Sector Activity Making
- Map 5 sectors activity reach and partnering history since 2017
- Melanesia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia
- 140 entities across 5 stakeholder entities across 19 Asia Pacific countries
Global XSPI Leaders
- Research four cohorts (9 OECD nations, 8 major international foundations, 6 multinational organisations, and 5 International NGOs) over last 3-5 year history to identify cross-sector partnership leaders across XSPI’s stakeholder sectors
Sustainable NGO Business Models
- Examine status of emerging, sustainable business models for NGO’s replacing or augmenting traditional donor funded models
- Key focus is International and regional NGO’s operating from Australia & ACFID members
Private Capital Sector Status
- Development sector currently lacks clear insight into private capital status & investment criteria
- Phase 1: “snapshot” of Australia’s private capital/impact investing/philanthropic sector’s current status related to Asia Pacific development
- Conduct survey of leading 10-15 Australian private capital entities
Knowledge Platform Creation
- Case studies, thought leadership, key foundation references, partnering frameworks & toolkits
- Unique cross-sector partnering knowledge centre aligned with XSPI objectives
Our Journey
Executive Roundtable on Cross Sector International Development Partnerships
- MBS, ACFID and Dr. Dan Evans convened 17 senior leaders across the 5 key stakeholders sectors.
XSPI launched
Initial 18-month initiative
Since July 2020 XSPI formulated
- PNG, Bangladesh and Indonesia working groups
- XSPI’s Advisory Committee
- Steering Committee
- Expert Network
New Colombo Plan (DFAT) Momentum Series
XSPI is invited to present “ Towards an Integrated Approach to Asia Pacific Development “ Discusses the critical importance of collaborating across the 5 stakeholder sectors Access here
5 year strategic vision 2021 – 2025 (January 2022)
Our 3 Horizon strategy comprises:
- H1 (July 20 – Dec 21): Initiate 3 countries (PNG, Bangladesh and Indonesia)
- H2 (Jan 22 – Dec 23): Consolidate initial 3 countries (start localisation) & expand 3 new countries.
- H3: Consolidate further, extend localisation & expand 3 new countries.
About us
If you are passionate about International Development and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in Asia Pacific … Contact us!
Advisory Council
Robert Dunn (Chair)
Dominie Brear (Secretariat)
Business
Peter Botten (Chair Accel, former Oil Search CEO)
Dr. Dan Evans (ex-WMC, ex-Accenture)
Laiza Garcia (KPMG)
Phil Turtle (Former Chair, Australia Indonesia Business Council)
Dr. Ana Andrews (Pitt Sherry)
Julianne Rose (Social Economy Group)
Government
Claire Moore (Former QLD Senator)
ACIAR (TBA)
Andrew Parker (NSW Government)
Philanthropy/Private Capital
Robert Dunn
Julie Rosenburg (AIDN)
Farhad Reza (Build Bangladesh Impact Enterprise)
Academia/Health/Medical Research
Prof. Glenn Hoetker (MBS)
Prof. Andrew MacIntyre (Monash University)
Brendan Allen (Burnet Institute)
Geoff Scahill (Abt Associates)
NGO/NFP
Karen James (B4D)
Shane Nichols (ACFID)
Francis Woods (Save the Children)
Peter Rudd (CID)
Steering Committee
Dr Dan Evans
Laiza Garcia
Robert Dunn
Ron Brew
Jeff Smith
Julie Rosenburg
Karen James
Jess Carter
Dr Ana Andrews
Project Management Office
Dominie Brear
Kari Knight
Michael Jerry Badrock
Michael Dowd
Former Advisory Council Members
Business
Morgana Ryan (Chair Infoxchange, CARE, ex-Accenture)
NGO/NFP’s
Kylie Porter (Global Compact Network Australia)
Victoria Thom (Alt) (Relationship Brokers Assoc.)
Julie Mundy (Relationship Brokers Assoc.)
Government
Sam Byfield (Victorian DHHS)
Howard Hall (ACIAR)
Philanthropy/Private Capital
Sally McCutchan (Impact Investing Australia)
Sabina Curatolo (Impact Investing Australia)
Former Advisory Council Observers
Andrew Egan (DFAT)
Sally Truong (DFAT)
Sheila Lunter (Austrade)
Dr Dan Evans
Laiza Garcia
Robert Dunn
Ron Brew
Jeff Smith
Julie Rosenburg
Karen James
Jess Carter
Dr Ana Andrews
Michael Dowd
Michael Jerry Badrock
Dominie Brear
Kari Knight
Business
Alan Atwell
Wendy Emerton
Ron Brew
Michael Conan-Davies
Navancca Eyres
Simon Field
Dr. Tim Grice
Ray Hughes-Odgers
Kristie Laird
Prerana Mehta
Gavin Murray
Akuntina Novriani
Diane Pekiolai
Atom Rahman
Kristina Ringwood
Dr. Bruce Rohrlach
Dr. Nia Sarianastiti
Alex Schultz
Tori Stuckey
Dr. Tim Siegenbeek v Heukelom
Government
Brian Borgonha
Kevin Evans
Ben Giles
Philanthrophy and Private Capital
Robert Dunn
Mark Ingram
Academia, Health and Medical Research
Dr. Mike Bourke
Dr. Russell Corlett
Zoey Diaz
Dr. Nawshad Haque
Dr. Kris Hort
Ross Hutton
Dr. Michelle Imison
Prof. Brett Inder
Dr. Jenny Kerrison
Rumana Parveen
Margaret Pearce
Jeff Smith
Dr. Russ Stephenson
Dr. Grace Wangge
NGO and NFP
Jeff Bost
Paul Brown
Jess Carter
Dr. Elizabeth Cox
Kevin Evans
Steve Goudswaard
Dr. Jackie Pomeroy
Bec Lannin
Ash Rogers
Jennifer Ross
Ron Brew (Lead Convenor)
Dr. Russ Stephenson (Convenor)
Dr. Mike Bourke
Dr Elizabeth Cox
Michael Conan-Davies
Navancca Eyres
Dr Bruce Rohrlach
Phillie Julai – Research Associate
Steve Goudswaard
Dr. Tim Grice
Ross Hutton
Ray Hughes-Odgers
Kirsty Laird
Dianne Peliokai
Dr Dan Evans (Advisory Council)
Karen James (Advisory Council)
Jeffery Smith (Lead Convenor)
Dr. Grace Wangge (Convenor)
Kristina Ringwood (Convenor)
Zoey Diaz
Kevin Evans
Simon Field
Wendy Emerton
Ben Giles
Dr. Brett Inder
Akuntina Novriani
Jeff Parker
Dr. Jackie Pomeroy
Amanda Tan (Research Associate)
Maya Indira (Research Associate)
Margaret Pearce
Fedra Rossi
Dr. Nia Sarinastiti
Dr. Jenny Kerrison
Brendan Allen (Advisory Council)
Dr. Dan Evans (Advisory Council)
Jasmine Stephens (Senior Research Associate)
Jess Carter (Lead Convenor)
Rejwana Farha (Convenor)
Dr. Nawsha Haque (Convenor)
Dr. Michelle Imison (Convenor)
Dr. Russell Corlett
Robert Dunn
Dr. Kris Hort
Mark Ingram
Rumana Parveen
Atom Rahman
Raad Ashraf (Intern)
Dr. Dan Evans (Advisory Council)
Claire Moore (Advisory Council)
Farhad Reza (Advisory Council)
Lily van Berkel (Research Associate)
Dakota Warren (Research Associate)
