NEWS & EVENTS
PEOPLE AND PLANET: SOCIAL JUSTICE AND ENVIRONMENT CALENDARS & DIARIES 2011
People & Planet is published by a partnership of 37 Australian social justice and environment organisations, and raises funds for the work of these organisations in promoting a just, sustainable world.Support AID/WATCH by buying a copy of the People & Planet...
AID/WATCH IN THE NEWS: Australia to undertake comprehensive aid review
Australia's aid budget has doubled in recent years and is set to double again in the next five years.Canberra was warned by its own Treasury in recently released documents that simply scaling up existing aid activities won't deliver value for money ... especially in...
How does Australia contribute to multilateral institutions?
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...
Millennium Development Goals and the Paris Declaration
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...
Forest project threatens Indonesian tribes
Kalimantan is part of Indonesia which is one of the world's largest carbon emitters because of logging, forest fires and the drying out of peat swamps.During his recent trip to the country, US president Barack Obama promised $700 million for climate change and forest...
Policy Asks
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...
Australia
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...
What is NOT aid?
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...
AID/WATCH IN THE NEWS: Aid groups pleased with spending review
The Federal Government has just announced the review saying it wants to make sure it's getting the most out of every aid dollar. NGOs say that to do so it should consider decoupling AusAID from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.Meredith Griffiths...
Australia
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...
Aiding climate change
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...
What was that in aid of? How Canberra is generous to a fault
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...