AusAID fast facts

 

Helping women in Papua New Guinea

Australia is helping women in PNG by:

• providing better water and sanitation facilities for girls in schools
• increasing support and legal reforms for victims of sexual violence
• stocking health centres with essential medicines for pregnant women
• training midwives to help reduce maternal mortality rates
• improving health services on Bougainville to halve maternal deaths
• increasing the number of girls enrolling in school by subsidising school fees.

Read more about AusAID's work in Papua New Guinea

What Australian aid will achieve

Australian aid will:

• train more than 300 new midwives in East Africa by 2015
• deploy more than 900 volunteers to 33 countries over the next year
• help ensure over 7 million children will receive life saving vaccines between now and 2013
• provide 1.2 million people in Southern Africa access to safe water and sanitation by 2015
• offer 2,400 scholarships to students from developing countries in the next 12 months
• screen 100,000 people in East Asia for avoidable blindness by 2015

Read more about Australia's International Development Assistance Budget

International Literacy Day

International Literacy Day:

• Australia and the UN helped enrol an extra 46,000 girls in Pakistan primary schools
• Two-thirds of illiterate people in the world are women
• Australia helps local NGOs to teach 722,000 children in Bangladesh
• 67.4 million children are not currently attending school
• 131 million young people aged 15-24 lack basic reading and writing skills
• 793 million adults lack minimum literacy skills

Read more about Australia's achievements in education.

Australian aid achievements

Australian aid has:

• provided scholarships to 30 per cent of senior government officials in Vanuatu
• improved access to fresh water in Tuvalu by installing 600 water tanks
• funded 64 village health fairs in Samoa to boost childhood vaccinations
• enabled 134,000 people in PNG to be tested for HIV since 2006
• helped  East Timor to reduce infant deaths by more than 25 per cent since 2003.

Read more about Australian aid achievements (blue book)

Australia is working with Indonesia

Australia is working with Indonesia to:

• install water and sewerage connections to 13,000 households in Banjarmasin
• build around 1,000 schools that can be accessed by children with disability
• give around 330,000 more children access to nine years of education
• help 80,000 villages improve their rural infrastructure
• build 2,000 new junior secondary schools to benefit 300,000 children

Read more about Australia's assistance to Indonesia

Why Australia delivers aid

Australia delivers aid because:

• two thirds of the world's poor live in Australia's region
• one billion people in the world lack basic literacy skills
• 2.6 billion people do not have safe sanitation facilities
• more than 400 million people in our region live with disability
• almost 900 million people do not have access to safe drinking water

Read more about an effective aid plan for Australia

Disability achievements

Australia has:

• supported nearly 80 Cambodians with disability to undertake leadership training
• provided disability-inclusive training to 375 educators and school counsellors in PNG
• enabled over 120 people with disability from developing countries to study in Australia
• supported the Pacific Eye Institute in Fiji to examine at least 20,000 patients
• helped Indonesia build around 1,000 wheelchair accessible schools

Read more about Australia's achievements towards a disability-inclusive aid program

Making a real difference—delivering real results

Australia has helped:

• Vanuatu reduce malaria by 80 per cent since 2003
• PNG immunise 900,000 children since 2009
• Pakistan train 10,000 midwives
• 12,000 potential leaders to complete scholarships since 2001
• Afghanistan educate 6 million children

Read the Government's response to the aid review for more about what Australia has achieved

Papua New Guinea

Australia has helped Papua New Guinea:

• provide half a million text books for schools
• halve maternal deaths in Bougainville
• triple the number of people tested for HIV
• train 700 female village magistrates
• maintain 2000 kilometres of roads and highways
• send 200,000 more children to school

Read more about Australia's assistance to PNG