AusAID AusAID AusAID is a bilateral development organization. Current priorities in development assistance require that developing countries, that seek Australia's help, fall into five categories, good governance, improved health, education, infrastructure, and rural development.
Governance is a long term and multifaceted issue.
It is about a good society. The term describes the means by which citizens and groups in any society voice their interests, mediate their differences, and exercise their legal rights and obligations. Developing countries that are quite similar in terms of natural resources and social structure have shown striking differences in the advancement of the welfare of their people, much of it attributable to standards of governance. The goals of the developing countries need to have a consensus approach with Australia, rather than one of a modeled homogeneity, in which the country receiving aid has to be exactly like Australia. The Australians allow for growth differences between their countries and those they are helping, and they focus on comparable positive aspects of consensus, allowing for individuality of the developing country.