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Thailand Emergency Flood Response 2011 Funding under this initiative provides support to the Save the Children to provide immediate relief operations across flood affected provinces Ayutthaya, Pathum Thani, Nakonsawan, Chainat, Ubon Ratchathani and Si Saket. Funding will focus on child protection, water, sanitation and hygiene, and education , specifically: establishment of child friendly spaces and child safeguarding measures in evacuation centres for around 3,000 children; improving water and sanitation conditions in evacuation centres and household areas through the provision of latrines, bathing and washing areas for around 16,000 individuals; water treatment kits; and the provision of temporary learning spaces and psychosocial support to around 15,000 children affected by the floods. The total value of this initiative is $0.5 million to be expensed during the 2011-12 financial year.
DCCEE Administered Climate Funding The Australian Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency (DCCEE) administered climate funding forms part of the $100 million multilateral climate change mitigation budget measure that provides Australia an opportunity to partner with multilateral agencies in delivering climate change adaptation and mitigation support to developing countries.   The objectives of this initiative are to: enable low-emission development planning and regulatory and policy reform; strengthen human and institutional capacity for low-emissions development; and pilot mitigation technologies in partner countries. The total value of this initiative is $4.8 million over two years, starting 2011-12.
Stop Transboundary Animal Disease &#38;#38;#38; Zoonoses Through the Stop Transboundary Animal Diseases and Zoonoses (STANDZ) investment (2011-2017) Australia supports the work of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) to improve the performance of Veterinary Services in South East Asia (SEA) in the prevention, control and eradication of emerging infectious diseases (EIDs), transboundary animal diseases, including Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) and Zoonoses. STANDZ is implemented across the 11 countries of SEA and China with FMD control making up a significant program component.  FMD is a regional transboundary challenge that derails sustainable rural development, agricultural productivity, and food security. FMD containment measures restrict trade and deny traders access to higher value domestic or export markets. The program critically works to strengthen animal health systems based on OIE’s international standards and one-health approaches (rabies programs) so that countries are able to prevent and contain transboundary animal dise
Project Childhood Project Childhood aims to protect vulnerable children in the Mekong from child sex tourists. The program comprises two themes on prevention and protection. The first is a scaling up of activities previously undertaken by the Non-Government Organisation, Child Wise. The second pillar expands the work into the protection field and will strengthen law enforcement response to the commercial sexual exploitation of children. Key measures of success for this program will include: countries with legislation and policies in place to respond to child sex tourism; officers, prosecutors and judges trained in how to investigate and prosecute offenders; mechanisms established to enhance regional cooperation between criminal justice agencies within and across borders; and arrests and convictions of travelling child sex offenders. The total value of this multi-country initiative is $7.0 million over 5 years, starting 2009-10.
APEC Targeted Cooperation Facility The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Targeted Cooperation Facility funds high priority, ODA-eligible, activities that support APEC's goals of facilitating trade and investment liberalisation and facilitation. The Facility identifies and seeks proposals to implement, activities that align closely with Australia's national objectives for APEC in these areas. The total value of this initiative is $0.5 million over 2 years, starting 2009-10.
AVID - Australian Red Cross The Australian Volunteers for International Development (AVID) program was launched by the Australian Government in May 2011.  It was aimed at bringing together four separate and unaligned volunteer programs under a single Australian Government banner with unified program goal and objectives.  The goal of the program is to contribute to sustainable economic growth and poverty reduction and advance Australia’s reputation and relationships in partner countries.  AVID programme makes a considerable contribution to the achievement of the Government’s public diplomacy objectives.  Volunteers promote a positive perception of Australia in the region, and promote a positive perception of the aid program domestically.  AVID also contributes to development outcomes and links the Australian community with people and organisations in developing countries.  

The AVID programme seeks to: build understanding of Australia’s international role and commitment to integration with the Indo-Pacific region
WHO GMS Malaria Program The Coordination of the Emergency Response to Artemisinin Resistance (ERAR) in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) is a jointly funded investment by Australia and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and implemented by the World Health Organisation (WHO).  In response to the geographic expansion of drug resistant malaria in the Asia-pacific the ERAR Hub (Cambodia) is tasked with coordinating regional action, providing technical assistance, strengthening technical leadership and catalysing resources. The investment directly funds WHO technical resources across the region (Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam). ERAR activities are contributing to improved drug efficacy surveillance networks, priority research, improved access for migrant and mobile populations, targeted responses to drug resistance in Myanmar and Vietnam, and reduced availability of inappropriate, substandard and counterfeit anti-malaria drugs.  In 2015 the region moved from malaria control to an elimina
South East Asia FMD Program Phase III (2009-2011) The South East Asia Foot and Mouth Disease (SEAFMD) Campaign – Phase III (2009 to 2011) aims to facilitate increased livestock sector productivity by controlling and eradicating FMD from participating countries consistent with the regional SEAFMD 2020 Roadmap. The objective of SEAFMD Phase III is to consolidate efforts of member countries and to achieve FMD freedom with vaccination in Southeast Asia by 2020 through integrated and harmonised regional approaches to disease control. The program involves eight (8) ASEAN member countries –  Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. The total value of this initiative is $2.4 million over 3 years, starting 2008-09.
ILO TRIANGLE Project The Tripartite Action to Protect Migrants within and from the Greater Mekong Sun-region (GMS) from Labour Exploitation (referred to as the ILO TRIANGLE Project) aims to reduce the exploitation of migrant workers in the GMS and Malaysia through increased legal and safe migration and improved labour protection. This will be achieved through: strengthened recruitment and labour protection policies; increased capacity to implement laws and policies; and better support services for migrant workers. As a result of this project's intervention, approximately 20,000 migrant workers will be prevented from entering or will be withdrawn from exploitative working conditions. The total value of this multi-country initiative is $9.4 million over 5 years, starting 2009-10.
Support for states to join the Arms Trade Treaty Funding under this investment supports Indo-Pacific developing countries to meet their reporting requirements and increase their level of participation in the Arms Trade Treaty. Australia's contribution aims to increase the number of states party to the Arms Trade Treaty, and support individual states with their reporting and participation in relevant meetings. This will make a direct contirbution to the reduction of armed violence and broader development outcomes by reducing the illicit trade in arms. The total value of this investment is $0.4 million over 3 years, starting 2017-18.
Independent Appraisal of MTV EXIT Asia Phase IV Trafficking in Persons (TIP) is a violation of human rights as it limits both freedom and dignity and undermines individual self-determination.  In Asia- Pacific, the Australian Government currently funding a number of initiatives to strengthen national and regional capacity to respond and to prevent this growing transnational crime. The Australian Government complements these measures by also supporting the MTV EXIT Foundation (MTV EF), which is a prevention effort that raises awareness amongst at-risk populations about the dangers of human trafficking. Funding under this proposal will support an independent appraisal of the draft project design of the MTV EXIT Asia Program Phase IV. The total value of this initiative is $4,000 expensed in the 2012-13 financial year.
SE Asia Regional Discretionary Fund 2015-16 The South-East Asia Regional Discretionary Fund (SDF) supports small-value, ad hoc development or capacity-building activities that contribute to Australia's foreign, trade and development policy objectives in South-East Asia. The fund is flexible and designed to support a range of ODA-eligible activities in developing South-East Asian countries. Examples of projects supported by SDF in 2015/16 include the development of an online climate data portal to help policy-makers in Indonesia and provision of Australian technical assistance to help Cambodia develop its first environmental code of practice.
Transnational Organised Crime Threat Assessment Funding under this investments represents Australia's support to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to undertake a Transnational Organised Crime Threat Assessment (TOCTA) for South-East Asia.  This will provide valuable information for use by Australian operational agencies such as the Australian Federal Police (AFP), the Australian Border Force (ABF) and their international partners in fighting crime and drugs. The TOCTA will be a public document and provide evidence for decision making by South-East Asian countries on transnational and organised crime. It will provide data and information on emerging transnational and organised crime trends to inform operational activities and cooperation between Australian and SEA agencies. In particular, it will highlight the income sources supporting the activities of these transnational criminal organisations. The total value of this investment is $0.4 million over 3 years, starting 2016-17.
DFAT-CBM Australia Partnership Funding under this investment supports the implementation of the Australian Government’s new disability strategy Development for All 2015-2020: Strategy for strengthening disability-inclusive development in Australia’s aid program.  This support will focus on increasing the capacity of DFAT's policy and program officials and its systems in disability-inclusive development, since these are expected to make a major contribution to the objectives set out in the Strategy.  Expected outcomes are that DFAT and its staff will be well-informed and increasingly skilled to be able to both deliver disability inclusive aid programming and maximise the quality of its international leadership and contributions to this increasingly globally significant policy.  The total value of this investment is $2.01 million over 2.5 years, starting 2015-16.
Intl Participation in Graduate Training 2016 International Participation in Graduate Training (IPGT) provides international participants with a theoretical basis for their practice of diplomacy and essential tradecraft skills for their career progression. The course aims to build capacity through professional and academic training and will expose international participants to key Australian foreign, trade and development policy issues. Partner countries have relatively small foreign ministries, with little opportunity to conduct professional training or promote career development. The IPGT program provides participants with a suite of relevant policy, professional and academic training to enhance their ability to pursue key international policy objectives of their respective countries. It aims to establish strong and enduring personal linkages between junior Australian DFAT officials and officials from priority regional countries which will be utilised in the pursuit of Australian foreign, trade and aid policy objectives into the
Cyber Cooperation Program The Cyber Cooperation Program aims to equip countries in ASEAN and the Pacific regions with the capacity to respond to the challenges and opportunities that cyberspace presents.
APEC VIRTUAL CENTRE INITIATIVE The APEC Virtual Centre Initiative for Environmental Technology Transfer is a workshop organised by the Australian National University's Climate Change Institute (CCI). It aims to bring together policy makers and researchers from a number of APEC developing and developed economies for a policy dialogue on climate change and environmental technology transfer issues. Funding under this initiative supports the Workshop scheduled to take place in mid-October 2009. The total value of this initiative is $50,000 to be expensed during the e2009-10 financial year.
Australia - Mekong Water Facility The need for effective and rules-based water governance in the Greater Mekong region has never been so apparent.  Economic growth, future quality of life and regional stability are strongly linked to the choices made by countries on how to share, develop and manage water to produce food and energy, maintain vital ecosystems and sustain livelihoods. Australia provides $9.86 million grant to Australian Water Partnership to manage Australia-Mekong Water Facility (2019-2023). Through this Facility it will provide government to government line of cooperation, it will offer a responsive, nimble and flexible mechanism for Australia to further enhance our existing water-related partnerships with the governments of the region. The overall goal of the Facility is to enhance rules-based governance for water, food and energy security in the Greater Mekong region.
Grow Asia (World Economic Forum) Grow Asia was developed by the World Economic Forum and is a multi-stakeholder partnership platform. Its aim is to bring together the private-sector, governments, civil society, research and academia, farmers' groups and international donors to increase the scale and impact of agribusiness ventures in the ASEAN region.  This funding represents Australia's support Grow Asia's activities in the ASEAN region. The total value of this investment is $8.0 million over 4 years, starting 2014-15.
Australia-Asia Prog Combat Trafficking in Persons The Australia-Asia Program to Combat Trafficking in Persons (AAPTIP) will provide: technical assistance to improve national and regional criminal justice capacities and improve policy formulation; a research fund to bolster policy formulation and a new coordination, partnerships and advocacy role; and chair the regional dialogue and policy table. The total value of this initiative is $50.0 million over 5 years, starting 2013-14.
ASEAN Food Security Policy Partnership Funding under this investment supports the Food and Security Partnership with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) for research and policy engagement, which aims to build the evidence base and intensify policy engagement with ASEAN countries to encourage adoption of coherent food security policies that address food security challenges. The total value of this investment is $1.7 million over 4 years, starting 2014-15.
MIT Solve Challenge on the Workforce of the Future The iXc proposes to enter into a new global challenge focused on the workforce of the future theme, with particular attention on disadvantaged youth in the Indo-Pacific and the acquisition of skills they need to prepare them for the workforce of the future and to thrive in the 21st century. We will do this by partnering with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Atlassian on a challenge that facilitates an open innovation process to crowdsource the best ideas from around the world.
Support to UNIAP on COMMIT Process Funding under this proposal provides support to the United Nations Inter-Agency Project (UNIAP) in coordinating anti-human trafficking efforts in the Greater Mekong subregion. The UNIAP was established in 2000 and provides technical and capacity building services and is also the Secretariat to Coordinated Mekong Ministerial Initiative against Human Trafficking (COMMIT). The total value of this initiative is $1.2 million over 3 years, starting 2010-11.
Education assistance to Southern Thailand The Education assistance to Southern Thailand supports Government of Thailand to develop programs for the delivery of basis secular education in Muslim majority provinces through the Australia – Thailand Southern Teacher Workshop Project  which aims to improve effectiveness of science and mathematics education at schools in the targeted and unrest areas in southern border provinces via series of large-scale teacher training workshops by the Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University. The total value of this initiative is $1.0 million to be expensed during the 2009-10 financial year.
Support to management of SEA regional aid program Funding under this investment provides support for costs associated with the implementation and evaluation of the South-East Asia Regional Economic Growth and Human Security Program. Activities will support effective aid planning, implementation and monitoring.
Election Observation Program 2011 Funding under this initiative provides grant funding to the Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL) to train and send a team of 23 international short-term observers and 23 international long-term observers to observe Thailand’s general election, expected in late June or early July of 2011. The project will encourage the conduct of a free and fair election in and develop the capacity of domestic stakeholders to observe and administer future elections. The total value of this initiative is $0.3 million to be expensed during the 2010-11 financial year.
EACDM Secretariat The Expanded ASEAN Committee on Disaster Management (EACDM) aims to provide better coordination in disaster management within the region. Funding for this initiative recognises the need for additional work and supports the establishment of the EACDM Secretariat.  First priority will be to prepare a concept paper and detailed design with specific requirements to: review and analyse the issues and constraints that will impact on establishing a Secretariat to the EACDM to implement the EAS Disaster Management initiative; determine how these issues and constraints are best addresses; identify and evaluate options for establishing the Secretariat; and to finalise a design for the Secretariat. The total value of this initiative is $0.2 million over 3 years, starting 2011-12.
RedR Australia Partnership 2010/11 - 2017/18 Funding under this investment represents Australia's contribution to RedR Australia to provide emergency assistance to communities devastated by conflict or major natural disasters through the selection, training and provision of competent and effective personnel to humanitarian relief programs worldwide as a United Nations Standby Partner and to international and national non-government organisations.  The total value of this investment is $39.9 million over 8 years, starting 2010-11.
Piloting of eWater Source with the MRC The Mekong River Commission (MRC) and modelling agencies in the MRC’s Member Countries currently employ a suite of modelling systems for underpinning decision-making for water resources management, predicting and preparing for floods and droughts, and conducting impact assessments of infrastructure projects. These systems are dated, not integrated making information sharing difficult. Funding under this initiative supports the eWater Cooperative Research Council to develop a solution.  The total value of this initiative is $2.2 million over 4 years, starting 2012-13.
ASEAN Support Fund Funding under this initiative provides support to the ASEAN Secretariat to support attendance of ASEAN developing country officials at important ASEAN meetings. The total value of this initiative is $20,000 expensed during the 2011-12 financial year.
Oxfam Research: Social Protection System in Mekong Oxfam Great Britain in East Asia will implement a one-year operational research project on "Social Protection System for Small-Scale Agriculture - Evidences from the Greater Mekong Subregion".  The project covers Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. The research project aims to provide community-based information on social protection system in agricultural community to help the governments of the Greater Mekong countries in:  a) strengthening the existing social protection measures and fill implementation gaps; and b) formulating new social protection schemes in the agriculture sector as means to mitigate risks and improve livelihoods.  The research will specifically:  a) investigate how rural small-scale farmers cope, using existing social welfare and community-based tools, with multiple risks and vulnerabilities; and b) examine existing social protection measures provided to men and women smallholder farmers and its effectiveness. The total value of this initiative is A$222,705 with
BRIDGE Civic Education Phase 2 The BRIDGE Civic Education Phase 2 initiative supports the 'Improving Responsiveness and Accountability in Government' budget measure to improve citizens' access to information. Funding under this initiative will provide support to people working in the field of civic education in the Asia Pacific region to improve efficiency and effectiveness of adult democracy and governance programs. The total value of this initiative is $1.2 million over 3 years, starting 2009-10.
CSIRO Alliance Exploring Mekong Futures The AusAID - CSIRO Alliance is a strategic partnership that aims to improve the impact of Australian aid by improving knowledge on climate, water and energy systems and by creating better understanding of people's vulnerabilities and options to adapt and manage their natural environment. Funding under this initiative covers: conducting 12 participatory workshops with stakeholders to consolidate findings from regional study and five case studies; developing action plans to address the research findings with key government policy and planning agencies; and finalising establishment of a cross-sectoral expert panel to foster ongoing impact of the research findings and methodologies. The total value of this initiative $0.4 million to be expensed during the 2011-12 financial year.
ASEAN and EAS Whole of Government Support (PSLP) Funding under this initiative supports the ASEAN and The East Asia Summit (EAS) Public Sector Linkages Program (PSLP) which aims to assist developing ASEAN member states to meet ASEAN's agreed economic and socio-cultural priorities, in particular the goal of developing an integrated economic community by 2015. The EAS PSLP aims to assist developing countries in facilitating the development of the EAS in its 5 priority areas which are: building linkages in the areas of regional economic and financial integration; disaster response; education cooperation; energy and the environment; and climate change. This initiative provides funding to Australian government agencies and/or universities to deliver capacity building programs that further the ASEAN goal of an integrated economic community by 2015 and address Australia Government priority areas within the EAS. The total value of this initiative is $4.2 million over 5 years, starting 2009-10.