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Appendix 12
Grants and contributions

Following is a list of discretionary grants and a list of contributions to international organisations and UN peacekeeping operations administered by the department during 2001-02. Details of grant recipients are available directly from the Australia-China Council, the Australia-India Council, the Australia-Indonesia Institute, the Australia-Korea Foundation, and the Images of Australia Branch (Cultural Relations Grants Program), through the department's website or the general switchboard.

Table 32. Discretionary grants [Note 1]

Title of grant

Brief description/rationale of grant

Total ($'000)

Australia-China Council

To foster people-to-people relations between Australia and China; to promote a greater awareness of Australia as a technologically sophisticated, multicultural, open and liberal society oriented towards Asia; to build a greater awareness of China in Australia, with particular emphasis on customs, cultural and ethical values, business priorities and contemporary issues.

720

Australia-Korea Foundation

To broaden and deepen the Australia-Korea relationship-by promoting and facilitating people-to-people and institutional links, especially in the fields of commerce, industry and tourism, science and technology, education, the arts, sport and the media.

720

Australian Institute of International Affairs

To raise the level of understanding of the role of foreign-and trade policy in Australia. The institute facilitates debate and awareness in Australia through lectures, conferences and publications.

60

Australia-India Council

To initiate and support activities designed to enhance awareness and understanding between the peoples and institutions of Australia and India, including through the promotion of visits and exchanges between the two countries and the development of institutional links.

720

Australia-Indonesia Institute

To contribute to a more broadly based and enduring-relationship with Indonesia by increasing people-to-people contacts and institutional links; to portray Australia as culturally diverse, educationally, scientifically and technologically advanced and economically enterprising; and, to increase understanding of Indonesia in Australia and of Australia in Indonesia.

900

Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Cooperation Research Program

To develop and strengthen academic expertise on Indian Ocean regional issues, particularly in support of Australian interests in the region, and to provide independent research in support of Australia's key trade and investment objectives in the Indian Ocean region.

108

Australian National Commission for UNESCO

To assist the National Commission in its activities and meetings; to advise the Minister of Foreign Affairs on UNESCO matters; and to enhance regional cooperation by providing seed funding for small national/international projects in UNESCO's fields of competence of education, natural and social science, culture, communications and youth affairs.

50

United Nations Association of Australia

To assist in publicising in Australia the United Nations and its activities.

8

United Nations Youth Association

To enable the Youth Representative to attend the 56th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

11

United Nations Youth Association Fourth World Youth Forum

To enable the Youth Representative to attend the Fourth World Youth Forum of the United Nations System in Senegal

5

Australian National Committee on the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific

To facilitate Australian involvement in the key 'second track' regional dialogue mechanism on Asia-Pacific security matters. This makes a substantial contribution to the pursuit of Australia's goals in regional governmental security processes, in particular the ASEAN Regional Forum, and contributes to a more informed debate among academics and the broader Australian community on foreign policy, security and strategic issues.

30

Cultural Relations Grants Program

To support key foreign and trade policy objectives by funding requests for cultural projects which promote a contemporary and positive image of Australia.

207

Total

 

3 539

1. Payments under the discretionary grants program are administered under Outcome 3. Reporting of payments under the outcome structure provides consistency with the reporting of discretionary grants in the Portfolio Budget Statements 2001-02 and the Portfolio Additional Estimates Statements 2001-2002.

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Table 33. Contributions to international organisations and UN peacekeeping operations [Note 1]

 

Total($'000)

International Organisations

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Secretariat

476

Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Organization

2 529

Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources

193

Commonwealth Secretariat

3 028

Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons

37

Energy Charter Conference Secretariat

228

International Atomic Energy Agency

6 095

International Bureau of Permanent Court of Arbitration

16

International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

2 776

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

3 412

International Fact Finding Commission

11

International Peace Monitoring Team-Helicopter Support

1 817

International Peace Monitoring Team-Solomon Islands Peacekeeping

2 596

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development

119

Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons

1 645

Other United Nations affiliated organisations

567

Pacific Economic Cooperative Committee Central Fund

44

United Nations-Assessed Contribution

35 020

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

10 040

Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies

35

World Trade Organization

1 995

Sub-total International Organisations

72 679

UN Peacekeeping Operations

UN Disengagement Observer Force

969

UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo

10 505

UN Interim Force in Lebanon

4 630

UN Iraq-Kuwait Observer Mission

500

UN Mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina

3 584

UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea

6 347

UN Mission in Sierra Leone

21 047

UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara

1 152

UN Observer Mission in Georgia

657

UN Organisation Mission in Democratic Republic of Congo

16 879

UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus

647

UN Transitional Administration in East Timor

10 523

Sub-total UN Peacekeeping Operations

77 440

Total

150 119

1. Contributions to international organisations and UN peacekeeping operations are administered under Outcome 1. Reporting of payments under the outcome structure provides consistency with the reporting of these items in the Portfolio Budget Statements 2001-02 and the Portfolio Additional Estimates Statements 2001-2002.

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