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Australian Humanitarian
Partnership (AHP)

- an initiative of the Australian Government

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About the AHP

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The Australian Humanitarian Partnership (AHP) is a five-year (2017-2022) partnership between the Australian Government and Australian NGOs. Through the AHP, partners aim to save lives, alleviate suffering and enhance human dignity in the face of conflict, disasters and other humanitarian crises.

The AHP meets these objectives by focusing efforts both in disaster response as well as disaster preparedness.

In disaster response, the AHP uses Australian Government resources to leverage NGO networks and expertise, to deliver effective humanitarian assistance.  For each response, the partnership selects the best placed NGOs to respond to those in need, in the most timely, cost efficient and effective way.  In disaster preparedness, the AHP delivers the AUD 50 million Disaster READY initiative across the Pacific and Timor-Leste.

Latest Humanitarian Responses

Recent Field Stories

Field Stories
Community-designed improvements to bathing facilities increase women's confidence in Bangladesh
Bangladesh, WASH, Women
Community-designed improvements to bathing facilities increase women's confidence in Bangladesh
Bangladesh, WASH, Women

For Rebeya Begum and other women in her village in Bangladesh, bathing was a cause of daily worries and waits. After receiving support from AHP partners to build a better bathing facility, women and girls feel safer and more confident.

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Bangladesh, WASH, Women
Rohingya children studying on, despite displacement and the pandemic
Myanmar, Rohingya, Education, COVID-19
Rohingya children studying on, despite displacement and the pandemic
Myanmar, Rohingya, Education, COVID-19

For students living in Myanmar’s Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps, access to temporary learning centres has been a lifeline. Students are enthusiastically back in the classroom after COVID-19 closed the centres for more than a year.

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Myanmar, Rohingya, Education, COVID-19
Clear information important when encouraging COVID-19 vaccine uptake in PNG
COVID-19, Papua New Guinea, World Vision
Clear information important when encouraging COVID-19 vaccine uptake in PNG
COVID-19, Papua New Guinea, World Vision

With COVID-19 vaccine mis-information reaching some of the remotest communities in PNG at a rapid pace, AHP partners are working hard to support greater vaccine uptake by building trust and sharing facts.

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COVID-19, Papua New Guinea, World Vision
Ripples of change for Doroteia after water access improvements
Disaster READY, Timor-Leste, WASH
Ripples of change for Doroteia after water access improvements
Disaster READY, Timor-Leste, WASH

When her village gained improved access to water with support from Disaster READY, Doroteia was able to become a businesswoman, selling her produce at market.

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Disaster READY, Timor-Leste, WASH
Low-tech, cheap, but effective: protecting Terejinha’s home from a swelling river
Timor-Leste, Disaster READY
Low-tech, cheap, but effective: protecting Terejinha’s home from a swelling river
Timor-Leste, Disaster READY

Terejinha worried about the river every wet season, wondering if it might sweep away her modest home and everything in it. Through Disaster READY, Timor-Leste partners devised a solution.

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Timor-Leste, Disaster READY
Protecting Kiribati’s youngest citizens with handwashing lessons
Kiribati, WASH, COVID-19
Protecting Kiribati’s youngest citizens with handwashing lessons
Kiribati, WASH, COVID-19

In Kiribati, training for preschool teachers, alongside new handwashing facilities, is instilling good hygiene practices in some of the country’s youngest citizens.

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Kiribati, WASH, COVID-19
Boys and girls learning together, for a more equal future
Bangladesh, Education
Boys and girls learning together, for a more equal future
Bangladesh, Education

In Teknaf, Bangladesh, adolescent boys and girls are usually not allowed to learn together or socialise. But an AHP-supported youth club is challenging gender stereotypes while increasing access to education.

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Bangladesh, Education
After a 450 year wait, Halimea village has clean water on tap
Disaster READY, Timor-Leste, WASH
After a 450 year wait, Halimea village has clean water on tap
Disaster READY, Timor-Leste, WASH

Residents of Halimea village in Timor-Leste say they have had problems with water access for 450 years. But all that has changed after support from the AHP Disaster READY program.

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Disaster READY, Timor-Leste, WASH
Seeding resilience against uncertainty in PNG’s South Fly
Papua New Guinea, Food Security, COVID-19
Seeding resilience against uncertainty in PNG’s South Fly
Papua New Guinea, Food Security, COVID-19

In Papua New Guinea’s Western Province, COVID-19 outbreaks have impacted the ability of rural communities to travel to town. Through the AHP COVID-19 response, new agricultural methods are supporting food security and resilience in hard-to-reach communities.

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Papua New Guinea, Food Security, COVID-19
Women take the lead on COVID-19 communications in PNG and the Autonomous Region of Bougainville
COVID-19
Women take the lead on COVID-19 communications in PNG and the Autonomous Region of Bougainville
COVID-19

The Meri Gat Pawa, Meri Gat Infomesen (Women have Power, Women have Information) partnership is one aspect of the AHP COVID-19 response in PNG and the Autonomous Region of Bougainville. Read how these women are working with Digicel to get COVID-19 information out to as many people as possible.

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COVID-19

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