Performance of Australian Aid 2015–16 May 2017
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InnovationDFAT’s innovationXchange (iXc) was launched in March 2015 to catalyse further innovation in the Australian aid program. This year, using three core tools of experimenting, partnering, and learning, the iXc has significantly expanded the depth and breadth of its portfolio. The iXc is trialling new development approaches and technology, through piloting, and adapting to achieve adoption. 
Experimenting is about finding and testing new ways of providing development assistance that deliver greater impact, cost‑effectiveness or address new issues. This year the iXc experimented with four global challenges to source innovations and further the department’s objectives: the Pacific Humanitarian, Blue Economy, and Google Impact Challenges, and LAUNCH Food. As a result, five humanitarian innovations are being piloted in the Pacific, including Firetail, a drone that takes aerial images of disaster areas to improve response planning. LAUNCH Food was publicised using an innovative social media campaign and received nearly 300 applications from 74 countries. Twelve high-potential innovations that address malnutrition are being supported, including a Pacific Islands Food Revolution led by world renowned chef Rob Oliver that includes multimedia communications and a televised cooking competition. The Google Impact Challenge coupled the technological expertise of Google and development expertise in DFAT to identify its winners, including the Lafaek Water Project that will support 20 young people form a social enterprise that treats and sells drinking water to communities in Timor-Leste. To stimulate economic development in the Indo-Pacific region, Australia is supporting innovators to develop sustainable and viable development approaches by accessing equity and debt through our investment in the Global Innovation Fund. The iXc is also developing a program to enhance social entrepreneurship and impact investing in South East Asia. To date, the iXc has invested in 11 programs (such as the challenges) which are generating a pipeline of innovations, seven innovative projects, and is supporting 59 innovations in total. To help encourage creativity in DFAT, iXc ran Ideas 2.0, a competition to stimulate new thinking and cross–departmental collaboration on five strategic policy issues. Progress is also being made on three Ideas 1.0 winners: “No Win No Fee” to trial a cost-effective approach to raising tax revenues in a neighbouring country; “The Last Taboo” exploring the challenge of providing women and girls access to affordable and effective menstrual hygiene products; and “the Digital Passport” is being advanced. This year iXc’s Directory: about-us -> publications -> Documents Documents -> Table of Contents 1 Introduction and Background 7 Documents -> Annual Review for 2014 Summary Report Documents -> East Asia regional development cooperation report 2009 October 2010 Documents -> East Asia Regional Organisations and Programs Annual Program Performance Report 2011 Documents -> Development Cooperation Report 2010: Afghanistan May 2012 Documents -> Review of the dfat ending Violence Against Women (evaw) Program in Afghanistan Documents -> Independent progress report Documents -> Annual program performance report: South Asia 2008–09 September 2009 Documents -> Kuala Lumpur, 22 November 2015 Download 2.96 Mb. Share with your friends:
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