Portfolio budget statements
Portfolio Budget Statements
- 2019-20 Foreign Affairs and Trade Portfolio Budget Statements, including funding for portfolio agencies Austrade, Efic, ACIAR, ASIS and Tourism Australia.
Media release
The 2019-20 Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Budget
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) will receive an appropriation of $5.2 billion for the 2019-20 financial year, including $3.7 billion in administered funding, and $1.5 billion in departmental funding.
The department is implementing the Pacific step-up initiatives announced in late 2018. The $2.0 billion Australian Infrastructure Financing Facility for the Pacific will be operational by 1 July 2019 and will accelerate the delivery of quality infrastructure which is prioritised by our Pacific partners and avoids unsustainable debt burdens. The department will receive an additional $12.7 million to manage the Facility.
The 2019-20 Official Development Assistance Budget
The Australian Government will provide an estimated $4.0 billion in total Official Development Assistance (ODA) in 2019-20. Australia is approximately the 12th highest donor amongst the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
Reinforcing the Government's commitment to step-up our engagement in the Pacific, Australia will make its highest-ever contribution to Pacific development in 2019-20 with an estimated $1.4 billion in ODA. This represents over a third of our total aid budget and reaffirms Australia's position as the largest aid donor to the Pacific.
In 2019-20, the Government will make available a record $450 million in humanitarian assistance, ensuring Australia can respond rapidly to humanitarian crises in the Indo-Pacific and help address the needs of over 68.5 million refugees and displaced people.
Additional information can be found in the 2019-20 Australian Aid Budget Summary [PDF 13 MB].
Australian Aid Budget Summary 2019-20
Full version
Separate parts
- Australian Aid Budget Summary 2019-20: Ministers foreword and introduction [PDF 2.53 MB]
- Australian Aid Budget Summary 2019-20: Pacific [PDF 2.89 MB]
- Australian Aid Budget Summary 2019-20: South-East and East Asia [PDF 2.70 MB]
- Australian Aid Budget Summary 2019-20: South and West Asia [PDF 2.98 MB]
- Australian Aid Budget Summary 2019-20: Africa and the Middle East [PDF 2.29 MB]
- Australian Aid Budget Summary 2019-20: Investment Priorities and Cross-regional Programs [PDF 1.45 MB]
- Australian Aid Budget Summary 2019-20: Global Programs [PDF 560 KB]
- Australian Aid Budget Summary 2019-20: Other Government Departments [PDF 372 KB]
- Australian Aid Budget Summary 2019-20: Appendices, glossary and abbreviations [PDF 693 KB]
Table 1: Australian ODA allocations by country, regional and global programs
2018–19 and 2019–20 Budget Estimate
| Program | 2018–19 Budget Estimate $m |
2019–20 Budget Estimate $m |
|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 519.5 | 512.3 |
| Bilateral program | 427.9 | 427.9 |
| Joint Understanding1 | 62.0 | 67.0 |
| Coral Sea Cable System | 29.6 | 17.4 |
| Solomon Islands | 146.1 | 122.3 |
| Bilateral program | 92.7 | 92.7 |
| Coral Sea Cable System | 53.4 | 29.6 |
| Vanuatu | 41.9 | 41.9 |
| Fiji | 35.0 | 35.0 |
| Samoa | 23.6 | 23.6 |
| Nauru | 21.2 | 21.2 |
| Kiribati | 20.2 | 20.2 |
| Tonga | 17.6 | 17.6 |
| Tuvalu | 6.6 | 6.6 |
| Cook Islands | 1.9 | 1.9 |
| Niue and Tokelau | 1.8 | 1.8 |
| North Pacific | 5.0 | 5.0 |
| Pacific Regional | 206.6 | 231.5 |
| Pacific total | 1,047.0 | 1,041.0 |
| Indonesia | 266.4 | 255.7 |
| Timor-Leste | 73.0 | 73.0 |
| The Philippines | 67.0 | 63.7 |
| Vietnam | 58.4 | 58.4 |
| Cambodia | 56.1 | 43.4 |
| Myanmar | 42.1 | 42.1 |
| Laos | 20.6 | 20.6 |
| Mongolia | 5.9 | 5.9 |
| ASEAN and Mekong | 32.6 | 33.7 |
| Southeast and East Asia Regional | 14.6 | 14.6 |
| Southeast and East Asia total | 636.7 | 611.1 |
| Afghanistan | 80.0 | 80.0 |
| Bangladesh | 42.1 | 38.5 |
| Sri Lanka | 19.9 | 19.9 |
| Pakistan | 39.4 | 19.0 |
| Nepal | 15.6 | 9.1 |
| Bhutan | 2.1 | 2.1 |
| Maldives | 1.8 | 1.8 |
| South and West Asia Regional | 19.8 | 14.8 |
| South and West Asia total | 220.7 | 185.2 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 31.8 | 31.8 |
| The Middle East and North Africa (includes the Palestinian Territories) | 20.5 | 20.5 |
| The Middle East and Africa total | 52.3 | 52.3 |
| Gender Equality Fund | 55.0 | 55.0 |
| Health, Water and Sanitation | 108.1 | 102.4 |
| Regional Scholarships and Education | 101.8 | 84.8 |
| Infrastructure and Rural Development | 46.0 | 46.0 |
| Innovation Fund | 35.0 | 11.1 |
| Other sectoral programs | 143.6 | 87.7 |
| Indo-Pacific sectoral programs total | 434.5 | 332.0 |
| Country and Regional programs total | 2,446.2 | 2,276.5 |
| Emergency Fund | 150.0 | 150.0 |
| Global Humanitarian Partnerships | 133.5 | 133.5 |
| Protracted Crises and Strengthening Humanitarian Action | 87.2 | 115.5 |
| Disaster Risk Reduction, Preparedness and Response | 39.0 | 51.0 |
| Humanitarian, emergencies and refugees total | 409.7 | 450.0 |
| United Nations Children's Fund | 21.0 | 21.0 |
| United Nations Development Fund | 12.7 | 12.7 |
| World Health Organisation | 12.4 | 12.4 |
| United Nations Population Fund | 9.2 | 9.2 |
| UN Women | 7.8 | 7.8 |
| United Nations Program on HIV and AIDS | 4.5 | 4.5 |
| Commonwealth Organisations | 7.2 | 7.2 |
| Contributions to Global Health Programs2 | 65.0 | 128.4 |
| Contributions to Global Education Partnerships2 | 16.0 | 30.0 |
| Contribution to Green Climate Fund2 | 19.2 | - |
| Other ODA eligible contributions3 | 44.9 | 54.9 |
| UN, Commonwealth and Other International Organisations total | 219.9 | 288.1 |
| Global NGO Programs | 135.6 | 138.6 |
| Australian Volunteers Program | 42.6 | 40.0 |
| Community Engagement and International Research | 8.4 | 13.4 |
| NGO, volunteer and community programs total | 186.6 | 191.9 |
| Cash payments to multilateral organisations | 358.6 | 234.6 |
| Global programs total | 1,174.7 | 1,164.7 |
| Departmental | 255.2 | 259.0 |
| Other Government Departments4 | 365.1 | 444.1 |
| Adjustments | -80.1 | -100.3 |
| Total Australian ODA | 4,161.1 | 4,044.0 |
– denotes nil or rounded to zero (including null cells). Due to rounding, discrepancies may occur between sums of the component items and totals.
- Joint Understanding between Australia and Papua New Guinea on Further Bilateral Cooperation on Health, Education and Law and Order.
- Payments align with multi-year replenishment schedule. Australia made the final payment to the Green Climate Fund in December 2018.
- Includes ODA eligible portions to the UN and other international organisations.
- Includes Australia's contribution to the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and Australia's contribution for the World Bank's General Capital Increase.
Table 2: Total Australian ODA by country and region of benefit
2018–19 and 2019–20 Budget Estimate
| Country and region* | 2018–19 Budget Estimate $m |
2019–20 Budget Estimate $m |
|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 572.2 | 607.5 |
| Solomon Islands | 187.0 | 174.4 |
| Vanuatu | 62.3 | 66.2 |
| Fiji | 58.1 | 58.8 |
| Samoa | 35.5 | 32.0 |
| Tonga | 27.9 | 26.6 |
| Kiribati | 29.4 | 27.3 |
| Nauru | 25.9 | 25.8 |
| Tuvalu | 9.7 | 9.3 |
| Niue and Tokelau | 2.9 | 4.8 |
| Cook Islands | 3.4 | 3.7 |
| North Pacific | 8.0 | 8.4 |
| Pacific Regional | 261.3 | 336.4 |
| Pacific total | 1,283.6 | 1,381.4 |
| Indonesia | 316.2 | 298.5 |
| Timor-Leste | 91.8 | 100.7 |
| The Philippines | 85.4 | 79.7 |
| Vietnam | 84.2 | 78.2 |
| Cambodia | 83.6 | 66.0 |
| Myanmar | 76.9 | 84.0 |
| Laos | 41.3 | 37.9 |
| Mongolia | 9.6 | 9.8 |
| Southeast and East Asia Regional | 238.3 | 251.0 |
| Southeast and East Asia total | 1,027.2 | 1,005.8 |
| Afghanistan | 80.2 | 82.1 |
| Bangladesh | 59.8 | 70.1 |
| Sri Lanka | 28.6 | 27.1 |
| Pakistan | 49.2 | 32.2 |
| Nepal | 30.6 | 22.5 |
| Bhutan | 7.0 | 6.4 |
| Maldives | 2.6 | 2.6 |
| South and West Asia Regional | 26.9 | 23.4 |
| South and West Asia total | 284.8 | 266.2 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 121.1 | 119.0 |
| The Middle East and North Africa (includes the Palestinian Territories)** |
137.4 | 80.9 |
| The Middle East and Africa total | 258.5 | 199.8 |
| Latin America and the Caribbean total | 5.9 | 3.3 |
| Core contributions to multilateral organisations and other ODA not attributable to countries or regions | 1,301.2 | 1,187.4 |
| Total Australian ODA | 4,161.1 | 4,044.0 |
Due to rounding, discrepancies may occur between sums of the component items and totals.
* Total Australian ODA attributable to partner countries and regions. Funding allocated to non-country specific programs at Budget is attributed to country and regional programs to reflect actual and planned expenditure.
** Includes Iraq, Syria and other flows to the region.
Table 3: Other Government Departments delivering ODA
2019–20 Budget Estimate
| Department/Agency | Aid delivered directly from Budget Measures $m |
Aid delivered in partnership with DFAT $m |
Total $m |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agriculture and Water Resources | 6.6 | 0.6 | 7.3 |
| Attorney-General's Department | 0.9 | 8.4 | 9.4 |
| Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research | 101.2 | 15.8 | 117.0 |
| Australian Federal Police | 47.9 | 6.4 | 54.3 |
| Commonwealth Scientific and industrial Research Organisation |
– | 7.9 | 7.9 |
| Communications and the Arts | – | 0.8 | 0.8 |
| Department of Home Affairs | 3.4 | 0.5 | 3.9 |
| Environment and Energy | 1.0 | 9.2 | 10.2 |
| Finance | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.4 |
| Health | 10.9 | 3.5 | 14.4 |
| Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities | – | 2.5 | 2.5 |
| Jobs and Small Business | 10.2 | 3.6 | 13.8 |
| Treasury | 261.3 | – | 261.3 |
| Other Government Departments (Australian) | 0.1 | 0.7 | 0.8 |
| States and territories | 0.4 | 2.0 | 2.3 |
| Total ODA delivered by OGDs | 444.1 | 62.1 | 506.2 |