Budget Highlights
In 2012‑13, the Government will deliver results for poor people in Asia, the Pacific and globally through strategic partnerships with multilateral organisations, such as the Asian Development Bank and the United Nations development agencies. We will also deliver life‑saving humanitarian assistance to aid 30 million people living in crises.
Delivering on the Government's response to the Independent Review of Aid Effectiveness
Working with developing countries in Asia and the Pacific
- Overcoming poverty and building stability in the Pacific ($384.5 million over four years) to immunise children, strengthen higher education and help meet the particular needs of the micro‑states of Kiribati, Nauru and Tuvalu — page 20.
- Improving policing across the Pacific region ($97.1 million over four years) to continue the Pacific Police Development Program, including in Papua New Guinea — page 20.
- Closing development gaps in East Asia ($208.6 million over four years) to train teachers and provide students with school materials in Burma, increase agricultural productivity in Cambodia and help disadvantaged children in Laos receive schooling — page 39.
- Extending Australia's commitment to the United Nations Mission in Timor‑Leste ($3.5 million in 2012‑13) — page 39.
- Continuing assistance in Afghanistan ($190.3 million over two years) — to support the training of teachers, put more girls and boys in school and improve agricultural productivity. We will also strengthen the strategic capability and effectiveness of the Afghan National Police and support displaced Afghan nationals — page 59.
Working globally and more effectively
- Strengthening preparedness and response to humanitarian crises ($435.6 million over four years) to respond to an anticipated humanitarian crises in the Asia-Pacific region, provide life‑saving assistance for 30 million vulnerable people in crisis situations and reduce deaths through disaster risk reduction — page 101.
- Strengthening Australia's development partnership with the United Nations ($154.3 million over four years) to accelerate achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, promote gender equality, combat corruption and help effective United Nations organisations focus on the needs of poor people in our region — page 96.
- Working more with the international development banks through a strengthened engagement with the Asian Development Bank to improve development outcomes in low-income countries in the Asia-Pacific region. In addition, Australia will pursue membership of the African Development Bank, signalling Australia's commitment as a long term development partner to Africa and of the United Nation's International Fund for Agricultural Development to reduce rural poverty and hunger — page 97.
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