As the Lao government rolls out a new primary education curriculum, this multi-year study assesses the extent to which the Australia-supported Basic Education Quality and Access in Laos Program (BEQUAL) results in school leaders and teachers developing intended teaching practices, which in turn leads to improvements in student learning outcomes.

Monthly trade data available in PDF and XLSX versions. 

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) is releasing this Indigenous Diplomacy Agenda to elevate indigenous issues in the work of the foreign affairs and trade portfolio.

The Disability-Inclusive Development Guidance Note outlines DFAT's suggested approach to disability-inclusive development.

The Transformative Agenda for Women, Adolescents and Youth in the Pacific: Towards Zero Unmet Need for Family Planning is a four-year program (2018-2022) that aims to contribute to strengthening national government capacity in six Pacific countries.

This paper provides an overview of literature and evidence from various countries, discussing how social protection can promote social cohesion. Social cohesion has two aspects: relations amongst citizens and the ‘social contract’ between citizens and the state (Babajanian, 2012). During economic downturns and crisis periods such as the current COVID-19 pandemic, social cohesion can be undermined by citizens’ reduced trust in governments and institutions, political unrest, challenges in essential service delivery, poverty and economic hardship. 

The Solomon Islands Gender Equality Plan outlines the approach and investments of the Australian Government’s Gender Equality Program for the period 2020–22. The Gender Equality Plan bridges the final period of Australia’s Pacific Women Shaping Pacific Development (Pacific Women) program and the transition to Australia’s next phase of support for gender equality programming in the Pacific region.

DFAT uses PPAs to assess how well implementing partners are delivering the services required in aid agreements and to inform future funding decisions. PPAs are DFAT owned documents stored in its information and records management systems. PPA information can be used for internal DFAT purposes and de-identified performance reporting to the public and the Government, including but not limited to, informing future procurement evaluations by tender Evaluation Committees, partner selection decisions, funding to multilateral organisations, partner governments and DFAT's aid program publications. Partners will be de-identified for the purposes of performance data analysis used in public reporting, unless there is a legal duty to do so. Partners must seek DFAT's written consent to share PPAs with third parties.

This matrix provides guidance to agreement managers, those approving PPAs, and implementing partners on the allocation of overall ratings against quality criteria. The matrix is a guide to support clear thinking and good practice in the consistent application of ratings. While the sub-questions are rated, only the overall quality rating for each criterion is used when reporting on delivery partner performance. In awarding ratings managers should take into account the delivery modality. For example, where investments are executed by national entities under the supervision of the partner being assessed, the scope of the assessment should be limited to the partner rather than the executing entity. An overall rating of 1-3 is classified as unsatisfactory and 4-6 is satisfactory.

The ANCP is a unique global program that supports trusted Australian NGOs through flexible annual grants for effective development projects overseas. It is the key partnership between Australian based international development NGOs (ANGOs) and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). The ANCP enables over 50 accredited ANGOs to deliver locally-led development projects in over 50 countries. 

Timor-Leste COVID-19 Development Response Plan

Pacific Labour Mobility Accommodation Review was to examine the costs and inclusions of accommodation for Pacific Labour Scheme and Seasonal Worker Program

Kiribati COVID-19 Development Response Plan

Fiji COVID-19 Development Response Plan.

The Pacific COVID-19 Response Package (the Response Package) will provide AUD250 million over 2020-21 and 2021-22 to assist Pacific countries and Timor-Leste in weathering the economic impacts of COVID-19 and to better position the region for recovery.

The purpose of the Review of the Pacific Labour Facility (PLF) was to assess the PLF’s value for money, assess the effectiveness of PLF welfare services and to look for efficiencies between the Pacific Labour Scheme (PLS) administered by DFAT and the Seasonal Worker Programme (SWP) administered by the Department of Education, Skills and Employment (DESE).

This Investment Design for Papua New Guinea-Australia Transition to Health (PATH) is Australia’s primary bilateral health delivery mechanism, valued at $200 million over 5 years (2020 to 2025).

The Australian Government has a longstanding collaboration with the Papua New Guinea Church Partnership Program (CPP), which is now going on 15 years. This document outlines the rationale and strategy for Phase 3 of the CPP.

This report, Australia's Official Development Assistance: Statistical Summary, 2019-20, presents statistical details of Australia's development cooperation and reflects government priorities for 2019-20 with partner countries, multilateral and bilateral development agencies, civil society organisations and the private sector.

The Statistical Summary series provide a comprehensive summary of Australian government aid expenditure.

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First peoples of Australia and recognises their contributions to the Department’s representation of Australia to the world.

This Statistical Summary contains the latest facts and figures and information on key issues for the Australia Awards.

Australia provides grant financing of $5 million (2018-2023) to the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA). DFAT commissioned Clear Horizon to conduct a Mid-Term Review (MTR) of Australia’s Support to ERIA over the period July to December 2020.

This presentation outlines progress of the PARTISIPA program from 1 July 2019 to 31 December 2019. It encompasses progress in supporting Timor-Leste’s Programa Nasional Dezenvolvimentu Suku (PNDS), or National Program for Village Development, and the changes in expanding the program scope to include support for municipal governance and rural water. During the reporting period, the program remained on-track to achieve end-of-program outcomes.

This document outlines the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Plan (MELP) for PARTISIPA, which will run from mid-2019 to mid-2021. The MELP describes the PARTISIPA approach to tracking and assessing progress towards outcomes and performance targets.

Australia has an abiding interest in working with the Government of Timor-Leste (GoTL) to achieve its goal of a prosperous and strong nation. PARTISIPA is a new ten-year AUD80 million investment (2021-2031) to assist the GoTL to improve the access and quality of basic infrastructure and services, in support of stability, human development and economic growth.

These procedures apply in determining whether a person who is an Australian Public Service (APS) employee in DFAT, or who is a former APS employee who was employed in DFAT at the time of the suspected misconduct, has breached the APS Code of Conduct (the Code) in section 13 of the Act.

This report details the findings from an independent mid-term review of the Papua New Guinea Partnership Fund (PPF) Education Grants undertaken in November 2019. 

The 2019 Australian NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP) Thematic Review focuses on agriculture, rural development and food security. 

This publication is an informative resource providing detailed snapshots of the latest trends in Australia’s international investment position with the world (both inwards and outwards) as well as a summary of the world direct investment position.