Summary of publication

This document reports on the progress under the 2009–2012 Vision 2020 Australian Global Consortium Program, and the Vietnam Australia Vision Support Program against quality criteria.

The report notes that the program is scaling up existing NGO programs in Vietnam, Cambodia, Timor Leste, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Fiji and Samoa. It highlights key results in target countries, including the following in Fiji:

• capacity building in early childhood care and education for Fiji ministries of education and health and Fiji Society for the Blind.
• training by the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children and the Fiji Society for the Blind in early childhood screening and programming.

It reports progress in the areas of relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, monitoring and evaluation, sustainability, gender equality, disability inclusion, child protection and risks. It includes country level analysis on the target countries and provides activity level reporting.

Full publication

Avoidable Blindness Initiative–Vision 2020 Global Consortium Annual Report 2010 [PDF 130 KB]