MEDIA RELEASE
Released By:
AusAID Media Alert
Media are invited
to Breakfast with Alexander Downer, Minister for Foreign Affairs
The Minister will
outline the latest trends in Australia's overseas aid program, how aid is improving
the lives of many millions of poor people, and launch the new AusAID web site
through which businesses can obtain tender documents and read about major future
contracts.
Followed by a seminar
on:
How Australian companies
and business and professional women can access the $600 million contracted annually
through AusAID.
The Access AusAID
seminar will:
- Help businesses
to understand AusAID's competitive contract process - Help businesses
identify consultancy opportunities and prepare competitive tenders - Explain the emphasis
AusAID places on the role professional women can play in the delivery of Australia's
overseas aid program
In 1998/99 AusAID
issued more than 800 contracts worth around $ 615 million to Australian businesses,
and managed contracts worth almost $2 billion.
Friday 14 April
2000
Ayers House: 288 North Terrace, Adelaide
Breakfast: 7.45am 8.45am
Seminar: 9.00am 12.00pm
To reserve your seat
on the media table: 08 82376911
Media contacts:
Innes Willox
(Ministerial)
02 6277 7500 / 0419 206 890
Fionna Douglas
(AusAID)
02 6206 4960 / 0412 804 489