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Building effective and accountable states

  • Strengthen accountability icon

    6,066

    organisations supported to strengthen accountability and/or inclusion

  • Economic reform icon

    34

    countries supported with policy and technical advice on economic reform and management

  • Direct financing icon

    $909 million +

    in direct financing to partner governments

  • Market access icon

    227

    market actors in key economic sectors supported to expand market access and/or improve supply chain resilience

  • Additional private funds icon

    $73.7 million

    in additional private funds leveraged to support sustainable development

  • Women entrepreneurs icon

    3.6 million

    women entrepreneurs provided with financial and/or business development services

  • Social protection programs icon

    153.8 million

    people reached through new or improved social protection programs

  • Women’s equality organisations icon

    $49.5 million

    in ODA funding channelled to women’s equality organisations and institutions

  • Gender-based violence  icon

    315,563

    services provided to victim-survivors of sexual and gender-based violence 

  • Persons with disabilities icon

    1,234

    organisations of persons with disabilities receiving capacity building support

Enhancing state and community resilience

  • infrastructure projects icon

    425

    infrastructure projects supported that meet internationally agreed quality standards 

  • local people icon

    15,028

    local people accessed jobs created by new infrastructure projects 

  • policies and regulations icon

    13

    countries supported to improve policies and regulations in the infrastructure sector

  • reading and mathematics icon

    15

    countries supported to improve minimum proficiency in reading and mathematics for children and young people

  • quality, accessible icon

    46

    countries supported to improve the capacity of their health systems to provide quality, accessible and affordable health services 

  • sexual reproductive health icon

    3.3 million

    couple-years of contraceptive protection from unplanned pregnancies made available for sexual and reproductive health

  • communicable disease threats icon

    30

    countries supported to improve the ability to anticipate, prevent, detect and control communicable disease threats

  • food security  icon

    1.5 million

    people supported to improve food security 

  • adaptation to climate change icon

    1.1 million

    people supported to improve adaptation to climate change and resilience to disasters

  • climate change adaptation icon

    76 investments

    (worth $361 million) improving climate change adaptation and disaster resilience 

  • nature-positive outcomes  icon

    18 investments

    (worth $75 million) promoting/delivering nature-positive outcomes 

  • safely managed drinking water icon

    2 million +

    people supported to use basic or safely managed drinking water services 

  • maritime domains icon

    38

    countries supported to improve resilience and ability to manage maritime domains and marine resources

Connecting partners with Australian and regional architecture

  • Australia Awards scholarship icon

    1,903

    completions of an Australia Awards scholarship

  • vocational course icon

    538,621

    completions of a tertiary or technical/vocational course or work-related training

  • mutual collaborations icon

    167

    alumni participated in mutual collaborations between their country and Australia after completion of an Australia Awards long course

  • PALM icon

    33,193

    Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) workers

  • ASEAN regional architecture icon

    116

    activities supported which strengthened ASEAN regional architecture 

  • Pacific regional organisations icon

    47

    activities supported in 14 countries and four territories, which strengthened regional architecture through Pacific regional organisations

Generating collective action on global challenges

  • rulesbased trade icon

    45

    countries supported to increase their capacity to participate effectively in rules-based trade and economic architecture

  • multilateral trading icon

    40

    countries supported to engage productively with the multilateral trading system

  • Emergency assistance icon

    8.5 million

    people provided with emergency assistance in conflict and humanitarian crisis situations

Fostering links between people, businesses, and communities

Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) fosters links between people, businesses, and communities, creating deeper connections and understanding between Australia and the Pacific.

PALM workers make an important contribution to the Australian economy, including addressing longstanding workforce issues across key sectors in the Australian economy.

Jowave (left) and Marcellus, both commis chefs, are friends and colleagues at Ayers Rock Resort. Credit: Pacific Labour Facility