The purpose of the Multilateral Engagement Strategy for the Australian aid program is to explain how and why Australia supports multilateral organisations.
This Strategy identifies priorities for the aid program's engagement with multilateral organisations and shows what the Australian Government is doing to ensure aid dollars are managed effectively.
This Strategy builds on the findings of the Australian Multilateral Assessment and shapes them into priorities that the Australian aid program will pursue with its multilateral partners out to 2016. These priorities are:
- Improving multilateral organisation performance and results
- Improving value for money, due diligence and safeguards
- Improving donor and multilateral organisation coordination
- Pursuing greater focus on Asia and the Pacific.
The Multilateral Engagement Strategy helps focus aid program efforts on improving multilateral performance. It sets out expectations for our multilateral partners and helps them focus their reform efforts.
It also ensures multilateral efforts and reporting feed into the broader aid program policy framework. This strategy ensures that Australia's aid dollars are used in the most effective way possible.
As set out in the Strategy, Australia will support multilateral partners whose work aligns with our development objectives and that are more effective in delivering results and value for money. Australia will not provide core funding to organisations that consistently underperform and show no prospects of improvement.