Australia's aid program
The Australian Government’s new development policy Australian aid: promoting prosperity, reducing poverty, enhancing stability and new performance framework Making Performance Count: enhancing the accountability and effectiveness of Australian aid introduce key shifts in our aid program.
Documents
Australia's new development policy and performance framework are available in PDF and Word formats.
- Australian aid: promoting prosperity, reducing poverty, enhancing stability
- Australia’s new development policy and performance framework: a summary
- Making performance count: enhancing the accountability and effectiveness of Australian Aid
The need for change
The world has changed—and our aid program must change too. Today, many developing countries are growing rapidly, with aid representing an increasingly small proportion of development finance. To be effective in this new context, our aid needs to be more innovative and catalytic, leveraging other drivers for development, such as private sector investment and domestic finance. We need to recast our aid program in light of this new development paradigm.
Changing where we work
The Australian aid program will focus on our Indo-Pacific region. We will have a sharper focus on our immediate neighbourhood—this is where we can make the most difference.
