Difference between revisions of "Australian AID - AusAID"

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Aim — The Australian Government's overseas aid program is improving the lives of millions of people in developing countries. Australia is working with the governments and people of developing countries to deliver aid where it is most needed and most effective.

Australian aid has helped our neighbours and countries further abroad to develop, and our aid program continues to grow. For example, Australian aid has wiped out polio from the Pacific. Australian aid has seen more than 1.5 million children immunized against measles and polio in Papua New Guinea.

We helped build the first bridge across the Mekong River in East Asia, boosting economic opportunities for millions of people living in the region. And our water supply and sanitation programs are providing clean water for nearly 500,000 people in Tanzania, South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

The strategic goals of the aid program are:

• saving lives
• promoting opportunities for all
• sustainable economic development
• effective governance, and
• humanitarian and disaster response.

More information —

• Preference will be given to Australian and international NGOs working in consortia; particularly where consortia build on the comparative advantages of individual organisations.
• AusAID brochure: link

Sectors —

Who can apply

Type of organisations targeted —

Specific organisations targeted — NGO's

Type of projects —

Specific type of projects — climate change adaptation at the community level.

Project stadia — scale up and replicate

Target world region —

Specific information on target countries — Australia's aid program focuses on the Asia Pacific region. We are internationally recognised for our leading role in the region, particularly in PNG and the Pacific. Our aid is even more important given two-thirds of the world’s poor—some 800 million people—live in the Asia Pacific, yet they receive less than one third of global aid. Australia also provides assistance to Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean. Our aid to Africa has increased significantly in recent years and now represents around five per cent of the aid program.

Criteria —

How to apply

Application procedure —

Selection procedure —