Associate Professor Patrick Kilby
PhD (ANU); M.Ag.Ec (Research) (Syd); B.Sc.Agr (Syd).
Associate Professor in the Master of Applied Anthropology and Participatory Development Program
ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
Areas of expertise
- Migration 160303
- Applied Sociology, Program Evaluation And Social Impact Assessment 160801
- International Relations 160607
- Social And Cultural Anthropology 160104
- Economic Development Policy 160505
- Social Policy 160512
- Gender Specific Studies 169901
- Economic Development And Growth 140202
- Political Science 1606
- Studies Of Asian Society 169903
- Anthropology Of Development 160101
Research interests
History of foreign aid, Non-Governmental Organisations; empowerment and marginalisation; gender; managing development activities; South Asia, particularly India.
Biography
Dr Patrick Kilby is an Associate Professor and Editor in Chief of the Journal Development in Practice. His research interests are: NGOs and NGO accountability; gender and development; managing international development programs; and women's labour migration. He has published four sole authored books on NGOs one dealing with women’s empowerment and Indian NGOs (2011), a history of the Australian Council for International Development (2015), gender and the Green Revolution (2019), and the role of Philanthropic Foundations in Development (2021).
In 2018 he took up Fulbright Senior Scholars Fellowship at Kansas State University looking at the history of the Green Revolution, and also to advise K-State on how to improve women’s engagement in their agriculture research in developing countries. In 2019 examined the role of philanthropic Foundations such as Rockefeller, Ford and Gates', in the foreign aid space, in 2020 UN agencies such as UNCTAD and others, and in 2021 and 2022 is part of a British Aid project with IFPRI looking at women migration from Bangladesh and Nepal to Lebanon and Jordan. He also works with ACIAR looking at gender analysis in their agricultural research portfolio. In 2022 he was elected as Secretary of the Development Studies Associaton of Australia.
Researcher's projects
Women's short term labour migration
Gender-based Violence in Solomon Islands
Gender in Australian Development NGOs;
NGO accountability;
Measuring women's empowerment;
Microfinance through self-help groups.
Gender and Indian NGO;
Indian NGOs
Current student projects
Women in the Pakistan civil service;
Rural Support Groups in Pakistan;
Poverty in Bangladesh;
Civil Society Organisations on the Thai Burma border
Publications
- 2020, Kilby, P., & Wu, J. (2020). Migration and the Gender Impacts of COVID-19 on Nepalese Women: Global Development Working Paper 1. 2020.
- Kilby, P, Mukhopadhyay, R & Lahiri-Dutt, K 2019, 'The effect of patriarchal norms on women farmers when men migrate: a case study from West Bengal, India', Journal of Gender, Agriculture and Food Security, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 31-38.
- Kilby, P 2019, The Green Revolution Narratives of Politics, Technology and Gender, Routledge Focus, New York.
- Kilby, P 2019, 'Chapter 3: Gendering Aid and Development Policy: Official Understanding of Gender Issues in Foreign Aid Programs in Asia', in Mehrangiz Najafizadeh and Linda L. Lindsey (ed.), Women of Asia: Globalisation, Development and Gender Equity, Routledge, New York, pp. 33-43pp.
- Kilby, P 2018, 'DAC is dead? Implications for teaching development studies', Asia Pacific Viewpoint, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 226-234.
- Kilby, P 2017, China and the United States as Aid Donors: Past Trends and Future Trajectories, pp. 1-2pp.
- Kilby, P 2017, China and the United States as Aid Donors: Past and Future Trajectories, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawai'i.
- Kilby, P & Wu, J 2017, 'Gender and Human Security - Bureaucracy and the Marginalisation of Women: Cases from the Solomon Islands and India', Journal of Human Security & Resilience, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 62-82pp.
- Kilby, P 2017, Does the Beijing Consensus have anything to do with foreign aid?, pp. 1-7pp.
- Kilby, P 2015, Happy 50th ACFID, pp. 1-6pp.
- Kilby, P 2015, China's emergence as a development leader: a historical perspective, pp. N/A.
- Kilby, P 2015, NGOs and Political Change: A History of the Australian Council for International Development, ANU Press, Canberra.
- Kilby, P 2014, Public support of development NGOs: a journey through the ages, pp. Online.
- Kilby, P 2013, Fifty years of ACFID - looking back, looking forward, pp. 1-7pp.
- Kilby, P 2013, 'Waste recycling and the household economy: the case of the Pune Waste-pickers' response to the changing 'rules of the game'', in Juanita Elias and Samanthi J. Gunawardana (ed.), The global political economy of the household in Asia, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, London, pp. 211-226.
- Kilby, P 2012, NGO dependency not the real issue: a response to Joanne Spratt, pp. 1-9pp.
- Kilby, P 2012, Participation and development under fire, pp. 1-7pp.
- Kilby, P 2012, 'The changing development landscape in the first decade of the 21st century and its implications for development studies', Third World Quarlerly, vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 1001-1017.
- Kilby, P 2011, NGOs in India: The challenges of women's empowerment and accountability, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Oxon.
- Kilby, P & Williamson, K 2011, 'NGO and Community-Oriented Disaster Response: Lessons from the Humanitarian Response to the Asian Tsunami in India and the Jogyakarta Earthquake in Indonesia', in DeMond Shondell Miller & Jason David Rivera (ed.), Comparative Emergency Management: Examining Global and Reginal Responses to Disasters, CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, pp. 329-345.
- Kilby, P 2011, Gender policy, practice and the aid review.
- Kilby, P 2010, China's aid: A challenge for new aid paradigms, pp. 1-7pp.
- Kilby, P 2010, 'The Current State of Play for Development NGOs: Some Questions of Theory', in Marcel Kratochvil and Valentin Pokorny (ed.), Public Administration, NGO's, and Public Debt: Issues and Perspectives, Nova Science Publishers Inc., New York, pp. 271-278.
- Beckmann, E & Kilby, P 2010, 'Transnational postgraduate study for development workers: using technology to bridge the gap', in Siran Mukerji & Purnendu Tripathi (ed.), Cases on Technological Adaptability and Transnational Learning: Issues and Challenges, IGI Global Publishing, Hershey, USA, pp. 103-122.
- Kilby, P 2008, 'The strength of networks: the local NGO response to the tsunami in India', Disasters, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 120-130.
- Kilby, P & Beckmann, E 2008, 'So, what happened in Kabul today? -Flexible Learning in Conflict and Social Justice Programs at the Australian National University', Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning 2008, ed. Conference Program Committee, Conference Organising Committee, London UK, p. 6.
- Kilby, P 2008, 'The White paper on Australian Aid: Dealing with Poverty in the Mekong?', in S Rajagolopan (ed.), Foreign Aid:Concepts and Issues, ICFAI University Press, Hyderabad India, pp. 71-86.
- Kilby, P 2008, 'Migrant labour, and the neo-liberal development paradigm: balancing the contradictions in the Australian aid program', Australian Journal of International Affairs, vol. 62, no. 3, pp. 345-356.
- Beckmann, E & Kilby, P 2008, 'On-line, Off-campus but in the Flow: Learning from Peers in Development Studies', Australasian Journal of Peer Learning, vol. 1, pp. 61-69.
- Kilby, P 2008, 'The Development of NGO Support Organizations: The Early Years of the Australian Council for Overseas Aid'', International Journal of Not-for-Profit Law, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 84-92.
- Kilby, P & Olivieri, K 2008, 'Gender and Australian Aid Policy: can women's rights be advanced within a neo-liberal framework?', Australian Journal of International Affairs, vol. 62, no. 3, pp. 319-331.
- Kilby, P 2007, 'The Australian aid program: dealing with poverty?', Australian Journal of International Affairs, vol. 61, no. 1, pp. 114-129.
- Kilby, P 2007, 'The White Paper on Australian Aid: dealing with poverty in the Mekong', A Greater Mekong Poverty Integration and Development, University of Sydney, http://www.mekong.es.usyd.edu.au/conference07/papers.html.
- Jakimow, T & Kilby, P 2006, 'Empowering women: a critique of the blueprint for self-help group in India', Indian Journal of Gender Studies, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 375-400.
- Kilby, P 2006, 'Accountability for Empowerment: Dilemmas Facing Non-Governmental Organizations', World Development, vol. 34, no. 6, pp. 951-963.
- Kilby, P 2005, 'The Voice of Marginalised Women in Controlling Small Scale Development Projects: Some Lessons from India', International Conference on Engaging Communities, ed. United Nations and Queensland Government, Queensland Government, online, pp. 1-18.
- Kilby, P 2004, 'Is Empowerment Possible Under a new Public Management Environment? Some Lessons From India', International Public Management Journal, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 207-225.
- Kelly, L, Kilby, P & Kasynathan, N 2004, 'Impact measurement for NGOs: experiences from India and Sri Lanka', Development in Practice, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 696-709.
- Kilby, P 2004, 'Nongovernmental Organizations and Accountability in an Era of Global Anxiety', The Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 67-78.
- Kilby, P & Shafie, H 2003, 'Including the excluded: ethnic inequality and development in Northwest Bangladesh', Labour and Management in Development Journal, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 1-15.
- Kilby, P 2003, Non-Governmental Organisations and Empowerment: A Study of Women's Self Help Groups in India.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- Gender-Sensitive Risks and Options Assessment for Decision Making (ROAD) to Support WiF-2 (Primary Investigator)
- Evaluation of Honiara Community Vision for Change Project (Primary Investigator)
- Farmers of the Future: Challenges of a Feminised Agriculture in India (Secondary Investigator)
- Community Vision 4 Change (Primary Investigator)
- Gender Policy and Approaches among ACFID agencies (Primary Investigator)
