2023-24 bilateral allocation [budget estimate]

$14.3 million

2023-24 total Australian ODA [budget estimate]

$127.0 million

2022-23 bilateral allocation [budget estimate]

$14.3 million

2022-23 total Australian ODA [budget estimate]

$106.1 million

2021-22 total Australian ODA [actual]

$47.3 million

Pillar 1 – health security

Australia is supporting partner countries’ health systems to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic via multilateral organisations, the United Nations system and NGOs. Australia provides funding to the World Health Organization (WHO), the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, the Vaccine Alliance (GAVI), Medicines for Malaria and the TB Alliance, supporting South Asia’s response to the pandemic. Our support to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) will help to mitigate the risk that COVID-19 will reverse progress made against HIV and tuberculosis in South Asia.

We will continue to provide access to sexual and reproductive health support to women and girls, including those with disabilities. Our investments with the International Planned Parenthood Foundation and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) are working in humanitarian settings across South Asia.

Further information on global programs addressing health security.

Pillar 2 – stability

Australia is contributing to broader stability and cohesion in South Asia through programs aimed at facilitating cross border cooperation and linkages, including through our water and scholarship programs. We continue to support efforts to end violence against women in the region and work with multilateral humanitarian partners to address acute need.

Further information on programs addressing stability in South Asia (Regional Program).

Pillar 3 – economic recovery

Australia is contributing to South Asia’s economic recovery by supporting cross-border supply chains, trade facilitation policy reforms, regional collaboration in planning major investment projects, and facilitating private sector investment in physical connectivity.

Further information on programs addressing economic recovery in South Asia (Regional Program).

A summary of results achieved in South and West Asia (Regional Program) can be found in the South Asia Regional Development Program Progress Report.

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

Further information on development cooperation in the South and West Asia region.