Nov 17, 2010 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS, PAST CAMPAIGNS
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...
Nov 17, 2010 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS, PAST CAMPAIGNS
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 …...
Nov 13, 2010 | IN THE NEWS
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...
Nov 11, 2010 | IN THE NEWS
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...
Nov 11, 2010 | IN THE NEWS
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...
Nov 11, 2010 | IN THE NEWS
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...
