Australian aid becoming less effective - survey »

The latest Australian Aid Stakeholder Survey has found a perceived decline in the effectiveness of Australian aid. Image: Julien Harneis, Flickr. The latest 2015 Australian Aid Stakeholder Survey from The Australian National University (ANU) has found a perceived decline in the effectiveness of Australian aid in the past two years. The survey, launched at the 2016 ANU Australasian Aid Conference, also found that while the majority continue to believe that Australian aid is effective, they now rate Australian aid as less effective than the average Western donor. "Some of this is due to the budget cuts, which have played havoc with funding predictability," said lead survey author, Dr Terence Wood, a Research Fellow at the Development Policy Centre, based at the ANU Crawford School of Public Policy. "Further aid cuts scheduled for this year's budget, another $224 million, will make a bad situation worse." The 2015 survey is the second undertaken by the Development Policy Centre. The first survey was held in 2013 before the integration of AusAID with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and before the large cuts to the foreign aid budget.