Figure 28

Infographic depicting the Australian Government response to Tropical Cyclone Pam. The department has provided more than $50 million in response to Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu. More than $10 million in lifesaving humanitarian support, including $1.5 to United Nations organisations for child nutrition and food programs; $3 million in humanitarian relief supplies for up to 13,000 people in the form of shelter, water and sanitation kits, and DFAT personnel to assist with coordination and assessments; $1 million to the Australian Red Cross to provide critical first aid and distribute lifesaving relief supplies; $3 million to Australian NGOs to deliver water, sanitation, shelter and programs to target the needs of women and children; $50 thousand to support maternal and child health through the SPRINT initiative; $2.5 million to support rescue and medical teams, including 20 AUSMAT personnel to provide urgent medical assistance and 54 Urban Search and Rescue Team personnel to help with clean up and repairs to critical infrastructure; $40 million to support early recovery efforts. Delivering on targets: From July 2015, progress against mutual obligations agreed between Australia and its key partners governments and organisations will form part of annual program performance assessments. The 2014–15 Aid Program Performance Reports, to be published in November 2015, will include reporting against initial mutual obligations agreed between Australia and partner governments. Longer-term mutual obligations will be articulated in new country and regional Aid Investment Plans and progressively included in agreements and discussions with partner organisations. Working with the most effective partners: By July 2015, design and apply new systems to assess the performance of key delivery partners and ensure stronger links between performance and funding. A new system for assessing the performance of NGOs, contractors and multilateral partners receiving non-core funding was introduced as part of the aid Investment Quality Reporting process. Reforms to systems for assessing the performance of multilateral partners receiving core funding have been finalised, and are being applied. Reforms to systems for assessing the performance of NGOs receiving funding through the Australian NGO Cooperation Program have been agreed and implementation commenced in 2014–15. Ensuring value for money: Deliver high standards of value for money in at least 85 per cent of aid Investments.  Investments rated unsatisfactory must be improved within a year or cancelled. In 2014–15, 91 per cent of aid investments were assessed as satisfactory for effectiveness and 89 per cent were assessed as satisfactory for efficiency. Fourteen aid investments were identified as not meeting these standards and will have one year to improve or be cancelled (a). Increasing consolidation: Reduce the number of individual investments by 20 per cent by 2016–17 to focus effects and reduce transaction costs. Since 1 July 2013, the number of aid investments has reduced by 18 per cent. Combatting corruption: Develop and implement new fraud control and anti-corruption strategies for all major country and regional programs by July 2015. Fraud control and anti-corruption strategies have been developed for all major country and regional programs.