NEWS & EVENTS

Below are the Australian government policy changes that AID/WATCH believes are necessary for an aid program based on social justice and human rights, and environmental sustainability. Join the campaign to make this happen! 1 - Remove ‘National...

In 2007- 08, approximately one billion dollars or 30% of Australia’s aid money was channelled to and through multilateral institutions and funds.[1] As the chart below shows, in 2007-08 the ADB and World Bank received 50% of Australia’s multilateral...

There are various ways in which Australia channels money to and through multilateral institutions and funds:Core funding: Core funding allows multilateral institutions greater control over how that money is spent. Because core funding arrangements are generally...

Until recently, however, there has been little in the way of a publicly articulated framework which explains how the Australian Government determines its funding relationship with the banks and other multilateral institutions.In 2009 AusAID developed a draft...

Unchecked global warming is already having a devastating impact. It is felt most harshly by the poor worldwide, and not least in the Pacific Islands. Yet Australia’s additional climate aid is zero. The $160 million to be spent on climate aid during 2010-11...

Millennium Development GoalsThe United Nation's eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) focus on key social factors that are crucial to poverty alleviation:Eradicate extreme poverty and hungerAchieve universal primary educationPromote gender equality and empower...

ODA is not limited to funds spent by Australia’s aid agency, AusAID. You may be surprised to learn that Australian aid figures are inflated by including spending on:controlling ‘irregular’ immigration and upgrading of detention facilities in...

No, taxpayers should be concerned because the government does not have a clear plan for how it is going to use that money, and prevent it being wasted.Ten years ago the world agreed to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. This was the first of the Millennium...

Most of these salaries stay in Australia and hence this form of aid delivery creates a ‘boomerang aid’ effect.  See also: “Corporatisation”Criticisms of Technical Assistance:TA is criticised internationally as both expensive and yet to be...

Courtesy of New Zealand Electronic Text Centre - nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-GriWom2-c3.html AusAID’s primary objective is To assist developing countries to reduce poverty and achieve sustainable development, in line with Australia’s national interest....

On a hot May afternoon, Cambodian sister and brother Hut Heap and Hut Hoeub left their makeshift family home to search for fresh water.They never returned. Hours later, the bodies of the 13-year-old girl and her nine-year-old brother were found at the bottom of an...