Australia is budgeting to provide $4.335 billion in Foreign Aid in 2020-21.
Judging by some of the comments we see on facebook there are lots of people who think that the Australian Goverment provides this aid in the form of cash.
They also belive that foreign government can choose to spend aid money how they like.
Below is some real information about Australia’s foreign aid.
Here is some information that busts the cash Myth and some other foreign aid myths
The Australian Government provides aid through defined programs.
It also provides grants to chosen in-country organisations and Australian organisations.
The expenditure is monitored by Embassy Staff.
A considerable amount of the aid budget involves providing Australian good and services to foreign governments.
Examples include;
The standard way of measuring aid generosity is as a percentage of Gross National Income (GNI)
The 2020-2021 aid budget is 0.21% of the GNI; with an average of developed countries being 0.31%.
Here are a few of the countries that are ahead of us, with their aid as a proportion of GNI; Austria (0.29), Britain (0.7) Germany (0.73), Japan (0.31) (New Zealand (0.27)
Although DAA’s Supporters receive tax relief on their donations Disaster Aid AUstralia has never received and financial support from the Australian Aid Budget.
We are only able to deliver aid through the generosity of our supporters.
If you would like to help Disaster Aid Australia continue to deliver Aid in developing countries then click on the link below;
Charity donations of $2 or more to Disaster Aid Australia are tax-deductible in Australia.
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