Summary

This 2012 report highlights the achievements of the Australia – World Bank Group Partnership.

Description

The World Bank is Australia's largest development partner. Australia works with the World Bank across a broad range of development initiatives both in the Asia Pacific and other regions. Collaboration has increased fivefold since 2005 to $678 million in 2011–12.

This publication showcases what we have achieved together in the past year to improve the lives of people in developing countries. Some of the results reported in 2012 include:

• school enrolments in Afghanistan increased from around one million to more than eight million, including more than three million girls
• more than 20,000 vulnerable Indonesian women benefited from empowerment activities like literacy and numeracy training
• access to finance was provided to more than 500,000 people in the Pacific.

This publication is available as a PDF or online.

Australia and the World Bank Group Partnership: Unlocking potential, achieving results

Available: Electronic Version.