Improving Australia’s foreign aid to the world

14 May 2013 - Four University of Sydney researchers have been awarded funding grants in the AusAID Development Research Awards Scheme (ADRAS), a project which supports Australian primary research to improve the quality and effectiveness of Australian aid in developing countries. The latest round awarded 50 grants to 31 Australian and international institutions totaling $32.9 million, including organisations from Samoa, South Africa, Malawi, Thailand, India, the UK and USA. The successful University of Sydney research projects are: - Overcoming exclusion of people with disability from disaster management in Indonesia Region/Country of focus: Indonesia Summary: The research addresses exclusion of people with disability from disaster risk reduction (DRR) policy. Through an action-oriented approach the research also aims to increase the participation of disabled people's organisations in disaster risk reduction. Principal investigator: Professor Gwynnyth Llewellyn Duration: 2013-14 Total funds: $556,906 - Human and environmental impacts of migratory pastoralism in arid/semi-arid East Africa Region/Country of focus: Kenya, Ethiopia Summary: The food security of migrant pastoralists on the arid and semi-arid rangelands of East Africa is critically affected by shocks like droughts and the state of vegetation resources for animal forage. This project aims to generate results on the feedbacks between migrant pastoralism and the environment.