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Non-government, non-profit organisations providing aid to promote health and human development. Tends to focus on smaller, community based projects.

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"Aid that is given from the government of one country to the government of another."

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Programs range from small community projects such as immunisation to large regional development schemes such as provision of water treatment plant;

Majority of Australia's bilateral aid predominantly goes towards programs in the Asia - pacific region;

Bilateral aid promotes and builds importnat relationships with neighbouring countries;

The main purpose is to reduce poverty, improve health outcomes and bring long term sustainable development

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Australian Government providing funding to Kiribati to implement programs to assist in Covid-19 recovery (long term assistance)

PNG formally asked Australian government for humanitarian assistance by providing emergency management co-ordination to support the recovery

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Advantages

Programs range from small community projects such as immunisation to large regional development schemes such as provision of a water treatment plant

Majority of Australia's bilateral aid predominantly goes towards programs in the Asia

Limitations

The donating country may gain benefits to their economy due to giving goods and services coming from the donating country

Aid given to the government of another country may not always be used for its intended purposes due to government corruption

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Aid given by governments of many countries and dispensed via large international organisations such as the United Nations (UN), the World Food Programme (WFP), the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the World Bank

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Governments provide money to large scale multilateral organisations who combine the money and use the funds to support countries in need

long-term and Large scale

address issues that affect the planet on a global level

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Non Profit organization

Operate separately from governments

focuses on small, community projects

Aim to promote community development and participation

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Australia supports the WFP to fight global hunger by ensuring that everyone has access to food needed for an active and healthy life

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World Vision, Red Cross, Salvation Army

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ADVANTAGES

can work in areas that are difficult to access, such as remote, fragile and conflicted-affected regions

have expertise in working in emergency situations, providing fast and flexible humanitarian assistance

bring strong connections to local communities, which means trust has often already been establishes

have deep knowledge of poverty and it's causes at a community level and bring expertise to the aid program.

DISADVANTAGES

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The Miracle Well

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The Miracle Well NGO Aid Program, provides communities with sustainable access to clean water by building wells, training locals to maintain them, and teaching water conservation and hygiene.

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Providing clean water that is not contaminated, prevents the spread of communicable, water-borne diseases. This allows more people to live free from illness, and promotes physical health and wellbeing.

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The program prevents the spread of communicable disease by providing clean water. This reduces risk of death due to water-borne disease, and increases life expectancy. Therefore promoting the health dimension of human development.

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ADVANTAGES

- allows for pooling of resources to address global issues that require a global approach such as hunger, global warming, infrastructure projects and reducing poverty

- allows implementation of global programs that would be big for any one government to implement

- ability to reach countries and regions that individuals countries cannot

- aid not tied to any political interests from donor countries which is positive

DISADVANTAGES

- some of the funds provided by multilateral agencies must be spent on administrative purposes

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The World Food Programme (WFP) School Meals Program collaborates with the Egyptian Government, providing snacks and food to families of children in school. If children regularly attend school (80%+), they can receive additional food such as monthly rations of rice. The aim is to reduce the prevalence of malnutrition in schools across Cairo and Egypt.

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immediate aid provided to countries following a unexpected emergency causes by natural disaster or large scale human conflict.

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supplying clean water, food, clothing, shelter, blankets and medical supplies

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Advantage

﻿﻿Provides short term relief to keep people alive

Disadvantage

Is not sustainable (not long term)

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if individuals are able to have medical supplies given to them, then they have a reduced stress and anxiety as they will be able to treat and manage illness or injury that they experience within the community, meaning that they can improve mental health and wellbeing.

Additionally, if people are able to have access to clean water, then they are likely to have a reduction of prevalence from illness, meaning that they can have an efficient functioning of the body and its system ( with reduced illness) and therefore, they can have a improved physical health and wellbeing.

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The immediate affect of Humanitarian Assistance can lead to populations having access to clean and safe water which can reduce the amount of communicable diseases therefore allowing for individuals to live a long and healthy life, thus increasing life expectancy and raising the health dimension of HD.

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The meals provides with students ensures that they are consuming enough food to help maintain their energy levels so that they can focus in class. By having enough food it also helps them maintain an adequate body weight as the student's are getting access to nutritious food, therefore promoting physical health and wellbeing.

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By World Food Programme (WFP) collaborating with the Egyptian Government and supplying school children with "highly nutritious snacks" and providing families with "monthly rations of rice," students may be less susceptible to getting sick from malnutrition due to adequate nutritious food. Thus, it enhances students ability to attend school and increase mean years of schooling as an indicator of knowledge. This positively enhances human development.

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The program provides the food to the schools by utilising local farmers and sourcing the food locally, this can then help benefit the farmers and the wider community as they are boosting the economy, therefore improving Economic Sustainability.

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NGO aid supports sustainability by helping communities use resources responsibly and protect the environment. They promote sustainable livelihoods, provide education on conservation, fund renewable projects, and advocate for eco-friendly policies, enabling people and ecosystems to thrive long-term.

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World Humanitarian Day 2018 - Cyclone Gita

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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

After Cyclone Gita destroyed electrical infrastructure across Tonga, Australian electricity linesmen were instrumental in helping restore power nationwide.

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Having restored the electricity and improving power lines after the cyclone it is therefore able to improve stress and anxiety in communities as they are now able to have electricity for schools to be able reopen and students to go back which can improve mental health and wellbeing.

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Because of the Australian electricity linesmen fixing the destroyed electricity it enables people to experience a decent standard of living. This is because electricity provides communication (phones/internet), job creation (businesses need power) and access to modern services, allowing people to be more productive and improving their standard of living.

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Due to the Australian electricity linesmen coming out and helping fix the destroyed electrical infrastructure across Tonga, individuals are able to have power to there homes, giving them access to the internet and there devices, allowing them to check up on individuals of there community, on how they went surviving the cyclone.

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This program allows individuals to have access to the internet allowing them to be able to continue there education ensuring that all children in Tonga can complete free, equitable, quality primary/secondary education promoting SDG 4.

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The program allows people to acces clean and safe drinking water, promoting SDG6: Clean Water and Sanitation.