NEWS & EVENTS
Technical Assistance
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...
Gone for good to fetch a pail of water
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...
AID/WATCH in the News: Australia to slash advisers on PNG aid
Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd said on Thursday he had advised his PNG counterpart Sam Abal of the government's decision to make big cuts in the ranks of the 487 Australian advisers working on PNG aid.He said a review of the PNG-Australia Development Cooperation Treaty...
More aid means more problems: Treasury
The federal opposition seized on the warning as further evidence that an unchecked Foreign Affairs Minister Kevin Rudd, who last week was spruiking Australia's benevolence to the United Nations, will only accelerate the program's failure.Deputy opposition leader and...
National Interest
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....
AID/WATCH in the News: Australian aid watchdog calls for urgent debate on spending
The Australian Foreign Minister’s advised his Papua New Guinea counterpart that the number of aid advisers to PNG will be cut by more than a third over the next two years.PNG receives over 450 million US dollars a year in aid funding, almost half of which goes...
Developing nations missing out on climate funding says Oxfam
The aid agency has called on the UN Climate Change Summit, in Cancun, in December, to create a Global Climate Fund for vulnerable populations in poor countries.At a crucial lead-up meeting in Tianjin China over the weekend, there was some progress towards a Climate...
Hunger costs
ActionAid’s report reveals that hunger is costing poor nations US$450 billion a year - more than ten times the amount needed to halve hunger by 2015 and meet Millennium Development Goal One.Fighting hunger is in other words ten times cheaper than ignoring...
AID/WATCH in the News: Major shake up of Australian aid agency, AusAID
The Australian government has announced it will phase out more than a third of its advisor positions in East Timor over the next two years. AusAID will cut 29 of its 82 advisor positions in East Timor. The move follows similar cuts for Papua New Guinea and is part of...
AID/WATCH in the News: Australia to slash advisor numbers in PNG
Australia will slash the number of technical advisors to Papua New Guinea by a third in an attempt to eliminate wastage. Australia's foreign minister, Kevin Rudd, confirmed the cuts as part of a plan to drastically overhaul its $457 million PNG aid program. The...
Afghans left out of aid decisions
Afghans recently voted in their fourth poll since the overthrow of the Taliban in 2001. They did so in a country that continues to be wracked by conflict and persistent poverty. It's estimated that 42 per cent of the population live below the poverty line, and there...
Chronic humanitarian emergency in PNG’s Yelia region
Care's CEO, Julia Newton-Howes, outlined the details at a Canberra conference called to discuss the findings of a recent joint review of the Australia-PNG Development Co-operation Treaty. Presenter: Canberra Correspondent, Linda MottramSpeaker: Professor Stephen...