ACFID members are on the ground and responding with life-saving humanitarian assistance, such as food, shelter, infrastructure, and health. Your donation will assist organisations to continue carrying out this crucial work. We will continue to update this page with additional members’ appeals as they are launched.

ACFID members are on the ground and responding with life-saving humanitarian assistance, such as food, shelter, infrastructure, and health. Your donation will assist organisations to continue carrying out this crucial work. We will continue to update this page with additional members’ appeals as they are launched.

ACFID members are on the ground and responding with life-saving humanitarian assistance, such as food, shelter, infrastructure, and health. Your donation will assist organisations to continue carrying out this crucial work. We will continue to update this page with additional members’ appeals as they are launched.

What is the key development challenge and opportunity in Southeast Asia in the next 5-10 years that requires a regional response? If I have one challenge, facing the region right now, from an NGO perspective, it is shrinking civic space.  

When Elvis sang “A little less conversation, a little more action,” he was, undeniably, thinking with his pelvis.

But in the development sector, we prefer to use other vital organs: our hearts and our minds.

With this in frame, we have co-opted Elvis’ famous line, but have adapted it somewhat: we are now walking around singing, “A little less conversation, a little more climate action.”

ACFID members are on the ground and responding with life-saving humanitarian assistance, such as food, shelter, infrastructure, and health. Your donation will assist organisations to continue carrying out this crucial work. We will continue to update this page with additional members’ appeals as they are launched.

Last week marked six years since the mass displacement of Rohingyas from Rakhine state in Myanmar.  

According to the United Nations, around 10,000 people were killed in an alleged genocidal operation, and more than 700,000 people fled to Bangladesh, adding to already large numbers of refugees there.  

The anniversary is a timely reminder of a protracted crisis within our neighbourhood.

ACFID welcomes the Australian Government’s announcement that it will contribute an additional $25 million in emergency assistance to help address food insecurity, saying that it represents Australia reasserting a desire to be a global player.