2025-26 bilateral allocation [budget estimate]

$9.1 million

2025-26 total Australian ODA [budget estimate]

$25.4 million

2024-25 bilateral allocation [budget estimate]

$9.1 million

2024-25 total Australian ODA [budget estimate]

$26.1 million

2023-24 total Australian ODA [actual]

$35.6 million

Australia and Nepal’s relationship is built on a long standing history, celebrating 65 years of diplomatic relations in 2025 and close people-to-people links. Australia’s development program supports Nepal’s planned transition to a middle-income country and its contribution to a peaceful, stable and prosperous Indo-Pacific region.

Promote Good Governance for Inclusive and Equitable Public Service Delivery

Australia, in partnership with The Asia Foundation, is supporting Nepal’s transition to federalism to improve service delivery and governance. The program promotes clarity of functions and responsibilities and is building more inclusive and strengthened policies, systems and processes through consultative processes in selected sub-national governments.

Enhancing Institutional Capacity and Community Resilience to Manage Climate Change and Natural Disasters

Australia, in partnership with the United Nations Capital Development Fund, Practical Action, the University of Melbourne, and The Henry L. Stimson Center, is supporting a range of initiatives in Nepal to address disaster and climate challenges. This includes the promotion of climate-resilient local economies and communities; the development of a community-centric early warning protocol for landslides to strengthen resilience in hydro-climatic hazard-prone areas of Bagmati Province; the establishment of data assets for forecasting and early warning of landslide hazards through a proof-of-concept; and the enhancement of early warning systems for cascading hazards.

Our focus on food security and agricultural research through CSIRO, ACIAR and the University of Adelaide is helping to build approaches to transform food systems, management of spring water and livelihoods in the mid hills of Nepal.

Through the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), we are building capabilities for green, inclusive and climate resilient development of the vulnerable communities in Koshi River Basin.

Australia Awards

The Australia Awards Nepal program has supported over 370 Nepalis since 2009 to study in Australia. The program has delivered short courses and Australia Awards Professional Opportunities to strengthen and maintain ongoing professional and people-to-people links for the growing alumni network.

More information can be found at Australia Awards in Nepal.

Further information on specific programs can be found on the AusDevPortal.

Australia’s development efforts are set out in International Development Policy page.