The Australian Government contributes nearly $4 billion a year to foreign aid and humanitarian responses.
That’s just 0.84 per cent of Federal Government spending. Many of CARE’s programs receive valuable support from the Australian Aid program.
CARE Australia shares the lessons of our work on the ground with the Australian Government. We do this to strengthen Australia’s engagement with the world and to support our aid program to deliver to people in need as fairly and effectively as possible.
We use every opportunity to champion equality, including speeches, submissions to parliamentary inquiries, letters to Government, meetings with politicians, public and parliamentary events and political and media study tours to the places we work.
We work collaboratively with our partners and peers to recommend to the Australian Government how it can best meet the needs of people affected by wars and disasters.
And we meet regularly with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to communicate the needs of the people we work with across the world, to share what we have learned, and to build a more compassionate, connected and engaged Australian foreign policy that works to reduce global poverty and injustice.
