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
AID/WATCH Presents at Asia Pacific Research Network Conference in Hong Kong
On August 31-September 3, Asia Pacific Research Network (APRN) conducted Asia Pacific People's Conference on Development Justice. The conference aimed: 1. To promote knowledge exchange among CSOs on the different aspects of Development Justice as a framework for a...
There are problems with foreign aid, but Bishop has solved none of them
An “overhaul” of Australia’s foreign aid program is largely not new, and fundamentally fails to address the difficult questions on how to make aid more effective. Aid analyst Thulsi Narayanasamy unpacks the policy.
June E-Bulletin
This edition has important information on the upcoming AID/WATCH AGM, the End of Financial Year Appeal, our monthly discussion series Aid Talks, Committee of Management vacancies, and A Common Purpose Film Fundraiser.Read the June e-bulletin.
AID/WATCH E-Newsletter – December 2012
This first issue covers the following topics:20 years of AID/WATCHAid to AfghanistanMDGs and extreme povertyPublish What You Pay Campaign on the Extractive Industries Transparency InitiativeRead the December 2012 E-Newsletter.
AID/WATCH open letter to Bob Carr: Australian aid must not support the expansion of Australian mining interests overseas
Open Letter to Minister for Foreign Affairs Bob Carr: Australian aid must not support the expansion of Australian mining interests overseasWe, the undersigned organisations, understand that AusAID has been exploring options to expand partnerships between CSOs,...
AID/WATCH sends letter to the Government over TPPA negotiations
The Hon. Dr. Craig Emerson Minister for Trade Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 Dear Dr. Emerson,Our organisations are concerned about the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement (TPPA) being negotiated with the US, New Zealand, Chile, Peru, Brunei, Singapore,...
Annual Report 2011
Read about all the great things AID/WATCH did in 2011 here.
AID/WATCH open letter to Bob Carr
The Rio+20 is the United Nations conference on sustainable development. It brings together world leaders, government officials, the private sector, NGOs and other civil society groups with the aim of talking about poverty reduction, how to advance social equity,...
AIDWATCH: New report ‘Off the Rails – AusAID and the Troubled Cambodian Railways Project
Civil society statement to the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness
1. We value our inclusion as equals at the HLF-4 negotiating table alongside governments and donors; expect to replicate this practice at national levels, welcome the opportunity to join world leaders, governments, donors, parliamentarians, private sector and...