2022-23 total Australian ODA [budget estimate]

$11.0 million

* Australia’s development efforts are set out in Partnerships for Recovery: Australia’s COVID-19 Development Response.

Australia works with the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) – a global fund that enables humanitarian partners to provide life-saving support to people in need through rapid response when a new crisis emerges, and critical support to underfunded crises.

Australia provided $11 million in funding to CERF in 2018-19, and was the 10th largest donor.

CERF provides humanitarian partners with funding that has each year on average:

• Delivered critical health care to 20 million people
• Provided food assistance to 10 million people
• Helped 8 million people access water and sanitation services
• Supported livelihoods for 5 million people
• Helped protect 4 million people
• Given shelter to 1 million people

More information: CERF 2018 Annual Report [PDF] and CERF Results Report – 2019 edition [PDF].

Video: UN Central Emergency Response Fund

Find out more about how Australia supports CERF to deploy funding rapidly in a crisis.