Aid

1. Foreign Aid
Australia in its Regional Context

2. Overview of Lesson
• Review last few lessons
Australia’s International Aid in Asia-Pacific
• What do we do?
• How? Government and NGOs
• Why?
• Where?
• Case studies/examples
• What’s wrong with aid?

3. Aid in the Asia-Pacific Region
• What do we do?
– History- in 1980’s contributed $840 million in aid, 1990’s 1.43
billion, 2006-7 about 2.95 billion.
– A number of target area/programs/ developing and
developed countries
• Reduce poverty
• Improve standard of living
• Respond to humanitarian crises
• Governance, health, education, human rights training
• How?
– most done in conjunction with international partners.
– Australia part of World Summit on Sustainable Development
to reduce poverty and improve standards of living (~30-40% of
aid)
– Major Government Organisations & Non-Government
Organisations (NGO’s)

4. AusAid
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrYsQHK-
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5. AusAid

6. USAid

7. UKAid

8. NZ Aid Programme

9. Reasons for giving aid in the Asia
pacific region
• To improve standard of living in region
– Over half worlds 1.3 billion poor are in Asia
Pacific/African region-( our aid programs may touch a
mere 58 million people globally)
– Includes, sanitation, access to safe water, health care,
access to education and sustainable education system,
unemployment assistance, training, sickness/elderly
benefits
• Economic interest- by increasing the standard of
living, social justice, equity, new markets are
created, trade increases and investment
opportunities open up
• Australia’s standing as a middle power

10. Bilateral and Multilateral aid
• Bilateral aid = given in partnership between
two governments (e.g. Australia and Fiji) who
then work together to ensure programs are
targeted to a country's priorities (~70%).
• Multilateral aid programs = aid given by
several countries distributed by international
organisaitons (e.g. UN; ~30%) .
– generally emergency relief, refugee assistance,
large scale construction

11. Beneficiary Countries
• Indonesia- for economic management
• Fiji- to promote stability and strengthen
services
• Vanuatu- support and strengthen police and
judicial sector
• East Timor- to help build independence
• Burma- provide basic health services and
capacity

13. Case Study - Response to Natural Disaster
Indonesia - 2004 Boxing Day
Tsunami
– Australia-Indonesia
Partnership for
Reconstruction and
Development
– Largest Australia’s aid
package in History: $2
billion over 5 years
– Recently helped set up
tsunami early warning
system in Indian Ocean,
Timor Sea and Arafura Sea
under UNESCO's
Intergovernmental
Oceanographic
Commission.

14. Case Study – Longstanding Partnerships
• Papua New Guinea
• Australia’s largest
benefactor of Aid
• Support in sustaining
reform
• Strengthening police
and judicial sectors
• Promoting stability
and strengthen basic
services

15. Case Study – Civil Disruption
Solomon Islands
• In 2002-2003 Australia gave
$36.2 million to assist with
economic, social and law
and order problems arising
from conflict.
• advancing gender equality,
including improving
women’s access to education
and health services, ending
violence against women, and
creating economic and
leadership opportunities for
women.

16. NGOs
• Non-governmental organisation (NGO) – can be
used as an umbrella term covering pressure
groups and charities. They are independent from
the government, bring citizens’ concerns to
governments and provide services to try to bring
about change on a range of issues.
• Pressure group – try to influence public policy in
the interest of a particular cause.
• Charity – set up for the voluntary giving of money
or other help to those in need.

17. Different Activities
1. Emergency response – food aid and
shelter for displaced people. Other
examples include providing money
and resources such as people, food,
shelter, medical care for countries and
people who are affected by natural
disasters, conflict and epidemics.
2. Long-term development work –
supply of clean water, building
housing, education, health care
provision, micro loans, etc.
3. Campaigning – educating,
activating, organising, pressuring:
Make Poverty History (2006).

18. Activity 2 – NGO Study
Pick one of following NGO’s and answer questions
• Anglicans Cooperating in Overseas Relief and Development (AngliCORD)
• Australian People for Health, Education and Development Abroad
(APHEDA)
• Australian Red Cross (ARC)
• Australian Volunteers International (AVI)
• Australians Caring for Refugees (AUSTCARE)
• CARE Australia (CARE)
• Christian Blind Mission International (Australia) (CBMI)
• Oxfam Australia (OAus)
• TEAR Australia (TEAR)
• The Fred Hollows Foundation (FHF)
• UNICEF Australia (UNICEF)
• World Vision Australia (WVA)
• WWF-Australia

19. What’s wrong with aid?
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktvT6YKG
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