RESOURCES
Aid/Watch campaigning and advocacy work is grounded in experience. Our research is thorough and constructive. We believe in building alternative futures, founded on experience and on community-level capacity.
Since 1992 AID/WATCH has critically monitored the aid and trade activities of the Australia government. We have monitored how they link to multilateral institutions, corporations, international financial institutions and NGO’s, as well as responding and engaging publicly to policy developments.
Over the years we have conducted detailed investigative research into programs which further the Australian national interests at the expense of the rights of people and the environment.
Over the past few years, we have moved beyond the ‘aid lens’ to address pressing problems of growing inequality, land grabbing, climate injustices. We are currently undertaking targeted, strategic and collaborative research with communities in resisting development aggression and seeking justice.
ANNUAL REPORTS
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REPORTS & PAPERS
HAUS BAGARAP, HEVI KAMAP: 'Homes Destroyed, Livelihoods Lost'
A joint research report by Aid/Watch, Jubilee Australia and the Paga Hill community on the aftermath of community evictions and displacement at Paga Hill in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (2021)
ODA, the Military, and Escalating Dynamics of Containment
ODA, the Military, and Escalating Dynamics of Containment: Aspects of the Recent Australian Experience in the Pacific
This paper looks at the creeping militarization of the aid agenda in Australia. Aid has long been closely associated with Australian military interventions overseas, from Afghanistan to East Timor, from the Solomon Islands to the Philippines. With the closure of AusAID, Australian aid has become more closely integrated with Australian diplomatic and strategic priorities, including its military priorities. (2021)
A PACIFIC COMPACT
In this chapter of Reality of Aid 2020/21 Report, Aid/Watch Australia‘s Mara Bonacci contextualizes the proposed “Grand Compact for the Pacific” among the four existing compacts in the Pacific between Northern countries and Pacific Island states and asserts that a compact agreement focused on Pacific Island nations must come from the perspective of social, environmental and gender justice and break away from the extractive industries, development aggression and colonial practices currently impacting the region. (2021)
GRAUN NA GUTPELA SINDAUN LONG PAPUA NUIGINI
AidWatch’s new publication GRAUN NA GUTPELA SINDAUN LONG PAPUA NUIGINI is a shortened and adapted version of Australian academic Tim Anderson’s Land & Livelihoods in Papua New Guinea book. Translated in Tok Pisin for Papua New Guinean communities the booklet will be distributed and disseminated by PNG partner organisation, Bismarck Ramu Group to local PNG communities who are fighting developments and destruction of their ways of life, livelihoods, local economies, lands, and food sovereignty. (2017)
Australia’s Foreign Policy
Since the 2003 White Paper, Advancing the National Interest, Australia has routinely undermined global norms. We have been at the forefront of breaking global commitments on military intervention, on the climate crisis and on development, to name just three. This article discusses the Government’s proposed new direction on foreign policy. (2017)
Inside the Aid/Watch case
This article explores the interaction between legal and political strategy in producing social change. It centres on a long-running dispute in Australia over whether charities can have a dominant political purpose. (2011)
People and Land in Papua New Guinea
An issues paper by Steven Sukot of the Bismark Ramu Group, an extract from his presentation at the PNG NGO AusAID’s Pacific Land Conference in Port Vila, Vanuatu (2008)
Aid in East Timor
An overview of Australian Aid activities in East Timor. (2006)
BRIEFINGS & FACT SHEETS
Statement by Business and Human Rights Thematic group from Human Rights Defender’s Advocacy Program, International Service for Human Rights (ISHR)
AID/WATCH partner, Allan Mogerema, Human Rights Defender and Paga Hill youth leader, was selected for the Human Rights Defender’s Advocacy Program (HRDAP) with the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) from 17-28 June in Geneva, Switzerland. Allan delivered a joint statement at the 41st UN Human Rights Council. June 25, 2019
AID/WATCH Annual Report 2018
2018 was a year of consolidation for AID/WATCH, where we rebuilt our internal structures, strengthened our on-the-ground links with community-based organisations in Papua New Guinea, and collaborated with partner organisations in Australia to undertake joint campaigning. Through the year we developed a new proposal for a new ‘Global Justice Project’, which is now to be created in 2019.
Annual Report 2009
2009 ANNUAL REPORT
GRAUN NA GUTPELA SINDAUN LONG PAPUA NUIGINI
AidWatch's new publication GRAUN NA GUTPELA SINDAUN LONG PAPUA NUIGINI is a shortened and adapted version of Australian academic Tim Anderson's Land & Livelihoods in Papua New Guinea book. Translated in Tok Pisin for Papua New Guinean communities the booklet will...
AID/WATCH Submission to the DFAT White Paper Consultation, 2017
DOWNLOAD SUBMISSION James Goodman (Chair) Aidwatch welcomes the opportunity to participate in consultations regarding the proposed new White Paper for Australian Foreign Policy. AID/WATCH is an independent watchdog that campaigns against the use of Australia’s aid...
MAKE A SUBMISSION: FOREIGN POLICY WHITE PAPER
Are you concerned about Australia’s impact on the world? If so, you should tell the Government what you think. The Australian Government is currently calling for public submissions for its Foreign Policy White Paper. If you feel as we do about the direction of...
53 organisations call on Labor to reject failed TPP
6 February 2016 | Dear Senator, Reject the failed TPP and ensure fairness in future trade deals, including the RCEP We the undersigned 53 community organisations, representing over two million Australians, call on you to reject the failed Trans-Pacific Partnership...
REPORT: Australia’s ‘New Aid Paradigm’: Beyond ODA?
Since the election of a conservative Government in late 2013 the Australian aid program has been radically transformed. Under the Government’s ‘new aid paradigm’ it is difficult to recognise aid as having a meaningful development mandate beyond promoting the private...
MEDIA RELEASE: Australian Aid Monitor Releases Report Card on the Aid Program Under the Liberal/National Government
AID/WATCH, an independent watchdog on aid and trade has released a report card of the Australian aid program under the coalition. The report card shows that under the Liberal/National Coalition aid has not only reduced at an unprecedented rate, the lowest level as a...
AID/WATCH contributes two chapters to Global Reality of Aid Report
The International Coordinating Committee for the Reality of Aid Network today launched the 2014 Global Reality of Aid Report on the side of a meeting to discuss the "modernization of the concept of Official Development Assistance" between CSO members of the Network...