Australia and the World Bank Group Partnership: Unlocking potential, achieving results

This report highlights the achievements of the Australia – World Bank Group Partnership.

Headline results in 2012

Access to finance provided to more than 500,000 people in the Pacific.
More than 12,300 vulnerable people in Honiara, Solomon Islands benefited from training and work experience.
Improved access to running water and sanitation benefited more than 5 million Indonesians. More than a million households in the Philippines benefited from community-led projects such as new school buildings, improved water facilities and critical infrastructure.
More than 20,000 vulnerable Indonesian women benefited from empowerment activities like literacy and numeracy training.
More than one thousand Lao school principals trained in leadership and a ‘Schools of Quality approach’ and one hundred Lao pre-primary teachers received pre-primary training.
$12 million provided in emergency cash transfers, benefiting more than 44,000 people in conflict-affected communities in Sri Lanka.
School enrolments in Afghanistan increased from around one million to more than eight million, including more than three million girls.
Antenatal care provided to more than 130,000 Afghani women ensuring 34 percent of births attended by skilled attendants.
Approximately 64,000 people in Mozambique provided with a treated water supply.