Release of the 2011-12 Annual Review of Aid Effectiveness The inaugural Annual Review of Aid Effectiveness was released today by Foreign Minister Bob Carr. This new and important document is part of...
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Release of the 2011-12 Annual Review of Aid Effectiveness The inaugural Annual Review of Aid Effectiveness was released today by Foreign Minister Bob Carr. This new and important document is part of...
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24 January 2013 Australia will provide $2 million to help the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) feed 575,000 refugees in Kenya that have fled war and drought in the region. Parliamentary...
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School meals from the UN World Food Programme (WFP) feed more than 11 million children in Africa each year. One of those children is a teenager called Molly Achieng, a 13-year-old schoolgirl from the...
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Australia and the World Bank Group Partnership: Unlocking potential, achieving results This report highlights the achievements of the Australia – World Bank Group Partnership. Unlocking potential,...
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Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced $14 million in Australian funding for the Sahel humanitarian crisis during the United Nations General Assembly in New York, bringing Australia’s total...
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At the height of the Horn of Africa crisis in July 2011, more than 13 million people in Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti were faced with the consequences of severe drought. Their situation was...
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AusAID’s Civil Society Engagement Framework sets out how Australia will work more effectively with civil society organisations (CSOs), in Australia and overseas, to increase the impact of aid for the...
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Mr Antonio Guterres, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, is in Australia from 12–15 February discussing a range of issues affecting refugees, including current and future global humanitarian...
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Media release Canberra 9 February 2012 Australia is responding quickly to prevent a deepening food shortage in the Sahel region in Africa and address urgent humanitarian needs in Sudan and South...
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AusAID, together with UniQuest and the University of Queensland (UQ), is helping to improve skills for dryland farming in Ethiopia, Djibouti, Uganda, Burkina Faso and Tunisia. Food production on...
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Media release Sydney 4 December 2011 The Australian public has united with the Australian Government and aid organisations to save lives in the Horn of Africa. Thanks to the deep generosity of...
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Media release Canberra 23 November 2011 In two months, the Australian public has contributed over $6 million, and brought the Horn of Africa appeal to more than $12 million, in a nation-wide effort...
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The current crisis in the Horn of Africa highlights the importance of food security. One in three people go hungry every day in Africa-a continent that holds 60 per cent of the world's uncultivated...
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Forrest Place, Perth Transcript E&OE 24 October 2011 Well, thank you Tim, thank you to Captain Banana, Captain Tomato. Who else we got here? Captain Carrot, Captain Corn and the other members of the...
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Anti-Poverty Week, 16–22 October Anti-Poverty Week was established in Australia as an expansion of the UN's annual international Anti-Poverty Day on October 17. Anti-Poverty Week aims to: increase...
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October 13 is the International Day for Disaster Reduction, when Australia, like many other developed nations, focuses its attention on efforts to build resilience in developing countries vulnerable...
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The Australian Government is extremely concerned about the humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa, especially the famine in parts of Somalia. More than 13 million people in Djibouti, Ethiopia,...
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The Australian Government today pledged to match, dollar for dollar, donations by Australians to help people in the Horn of Africa. The situation in the Horn of Africa remains dire, with the UN...
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29 September 2011 A hallmark of foreign policy is to look beyond the horizon to analyse the new great global challenges facing us in the future. Today I want to talk to you about one such challenge —...
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AusAID Director General Peter Baxter witnessed first hand how Australian support for the ongoing humanitarian effort is saving lives in the Horn of Africa when he visited the world's largest refugee...