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Australian Aid: Promoting Growth and Stability
A White Paper on the Australian Government's Overseas Aid Program
Table of contents
Foreword
Executive summary
- 1 INTRODUCTION
- 1.1 The purpose of the White Paper
- 1.2 Why now?
- 1.3 Australia’s overseas aid program: our values and interests
- 2 OPERATING ENVIRONMENT
- 2.1 Development performance and prospects
- 2.2 Regional challenges
- 2.3 International response to global poverty and development
- 2.4 Lessons learnt on development and aid
- 2.5 Fragile states
- 2.6 Implications
- 3 STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK
- 3.1 Objective
- 3.2 What the aid program will focus on
- 3.3 How Australia will deliver its aid
- 3.4 Working with developing country partners
- 3.5 Gender equality
- 3.6 Australian aid will be untied
- 4 WHERE AUSTRALIA WILL WORK, AND WHY
- 4.1 Asia
- 4.2 PNG and the Pacific
- 4.3 Africa and the Middle East
- 5 WHAT THE AID PROGRAM WILL FOCUS ON
- 5.1 Accelerating economic growth
- 5.2 Fostering functioning and effective states
- 5.3 Investing in people
- 5.4 Promoting regional stability and cooperation
- 6 STRENGTHENING EFFECTIVENESS: HOW AUSTRALIAN AID WILL BE DELIVERED
- 6.1 Strengthening the performance orientation of the aid program
- 6.2 Combating corruption
- 6.3 Enhancing Australia’s engagement with the Asia–Pacific region
- 6.4 Working with partners
- 7 AID MANAGEMENT
- 7.1 Grant aid
- 7.2 Resourcing
- 7.3 Focus of aid delivery
- 7.4 Skills
- 7.5 Aid Advisory Council
- 7.6 Communications
- Abbreviations and acronyms
- Glossary of selected terms
Maps and figures
CHARTS
- 1 Strategic Framework for Australia's Overseas Aid Program
MAPS
- 1 Geographical distribution of Australian aid (2005–06 estimates) [PDF 556KB]
- 2 Average annual GDP per capita growth in the Asia–Pacific, 1995 to 2004
- 3 HIV/AIDS in the Asia–Pacific region — adult prevalence, 1988 to 2003
- 4 Current AusAID overseas representation [Not available on line]
FIGURES
- 1 Poverty and growth in Asia and Africa
- 2 Global aid levels, 1990 to 2010
- 3 Comparison of agricultural subsidies by country
- 4 Growth records of globalising and non-globalising countries
- 5 Growth in Asia and the Pacific, 1995 to 2004
- 6 Competitiveness rankings of Malaysia, Indonesia and Philippines among 60 countries
- 7 Water availability, 1950 to 2030
- 8 Maternal mortality rates in the Asia–Pacific region
- 9 Progress in education in the Asia–Pacific region
INITIATIVE BOXES
- 1 Pacific Land Mobilisation Program
- 2 Infrastructure for Growth Initiative
- 3 Australia–Pacific Technical College
- 4 Rural and Business Development
- 5 Building Stronger Leadership
- 6 Performance Incentives
- 7 Enhanced Emergency Response Capacity
- 8 Delivering Better Health
- 9 HIV/AIDS — Leadership in the Region
- 10 Tackling Malaria in the Pacific
- 11 Delivering Better Education
- 12 Australian Scholarships
- 13 Strengthening Cooperation on Transboundary Threats
- 14 Office of Development Effectiveness
- 15 Anti-Corruption for Development
- 16 Larger and Diversified Development Research Program
- 17 Mobilising New Australian Links to the Region
© April 2006. This work is copyright. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyrights Act 1968, no part may be reproduced by any process without prior written permission from the Commonwealth. Requests and inquiries concerning reproduction and rights should be addressed to the Commonwealth Copyright Administration, Attorney-General’s Department, Robert Garran Offices, National Circuit, Barton ACT 2600 or posted at http://www.ag.gov.au.cca.
ISBN 1 9208 61 734
For further information about the Australian Government’s overseas aid program, contact: AusAID Public Affairs Group
AusAID GPO Box 887 Canberra ACT 2601
Phone 02 6206 4727 Facsimile 02 6206 4695 Internet www.ausaid.gov.au
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