The Australian Government contributes nearly $4 billion a year to foreign aid and humanitarian responses.

That’s just 0.84 per cent of Federal Government spending. Many of CARE’s programs receive valuable support from the Australian Aid program.

CARE Australia shares the lessons of our work on the ground with the Australian Government. We do this to strengthen Australia’s engagement with the world and to support our aid program to deliver to people in need as fairly and effectively as possible.

We use every opportunity to champion gender equality, including speeches, submissions to parliamentary inquiries, letters to Government, meetings with politicians, public and parliamentary events and political and media study tours to the places we work.

We provide the Secretariat for the Australian Parliamentary Group on Population and Development, which is a cross-party Parliamentary Friendship Group dedicated to championing gender equality and sexual and reproductive health and rights in Australia’s aid program.

We play a leading role in the International Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Consortium, a partnership of Australian agencies advocating for sexual and reproductive health and rights globally.

We work collaboratively with our partners and peers to recommend to the Australian Government how it can best meet the needs of people affected by wars and disasters.

And we meet regularly with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to communicate the needs of the people we work with across the world, to share what we have learned, and to build a more compassionate, connected and engaged Australian foreign policy that works to reduce global poverty and injustice.

Find a selection of our submissions to parliamentary inquiries below:

• 2020 – Inquiry into the Human Rights of Women and Girls in the Pacific
• Submission to the 2021-22 Federal Budget
• 2020 Australia’s Development Policy submission
• Submission to the 2019-20 Federal Budget
• 2018 Aid Strategic Effectiveness
• Submission to the 2018-19 Budget
• 2017 Inquiry into establishing a Modern Slavery Act in Australia
• 2017 Foreign Policy White Paper
• 2016 CARE Australia Submission to the Australian Government for the 61^st Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women
• 2015 Inquiry into the role of development partnerships in agriculture and agribusiness in promoting prosperity, reducing poverty and enhancing stability in the lndo-Pacific region
• 2015 Gender Equality in International Development Bill
• 2014 Inquiry into the role of the private sector in promoting economic growth and reducing poverty
• 2014 Inquiry into the human rights issues confronting women and girls in the Indian Ocean – Asia Pacific region and a supplementary submission focused on Gender in Emergencies