Australian NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP) - Impact stories

West Timor is the poorest province in Indonesia, and people’s ability to improve their lives depends on opportunities to earn a sustainable income.

At 17, Allona knows her community is situated in a flood-prone area. She may have not experienced waking up to a flooded house, but she has witnessed how her neighbours and friends wade into the murky floodwater during typhoons or rainy seasons.

The Philippines has seen an increasing number of extreme weather events and disasters in recent years. A particularly devastating time was late 2020, when three consecutive typhoons struck the region of Camarines Sur, destroying homes and livelihoods.

Leadership opportunities for women are limited in Cambodia, where the education system is still recovering from its troubled recent history.

Access to safe, clean water for drinking and washing is critical to staying healthy. When people don’t have access to safe drinking water, the risk of preventable illness like diarrhoea increases. Without safe water to wash in, there is a much higher chance of infection. Proper sanitation greatly improves health outcomes.

The Shurmo Education and Livelihood Development (SELD) project in Ethiopia has been supported through our Australian NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP) partnership with International Needs Australia (INA) for many years.

There are 225 million women and girls in developing countries globally with an unmet need for modern contraception.

A crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic can trigger reactions like fear, made worse by a lack of reliable information. This was the scenario that the TB counselling team was faced with in early 2020, as they supported people in Daru who were on TB treatment.

The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically impacted girls around the world, and it is important that their voices and experiences are included in global discussions and policy decisions.

Australian NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP) NGO Engineers Without Borders (EWB) Australia is working with Vanuatu’s Department of Health to help create sanitation and hygiene standards for emergency responses.