List of recommendations

Recommendation 1

3.16The committee recommends that the Australian Government direct the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to develop and implement an alternative and more flexible due diligence framework to be used when a recipient community is in a defined contested environment.

Recommendation 2

3.17The committee recommends that the Australian Government direct the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to develop a decision support tool to assist officers conducting risk management assessments to make it easier to facilitate better distribution of aid funding using the proposed contested environment due diligence framework.

Recommendation 3

3.18The committee recommends that the Australian Government utilise any new due diligence framework to engage with and strengthen ties with aid partners and stakeholders on the ground in contested environments, such as the National Unity Government, faith-based non-government organisations and civil society organisations.

Recommendation 4

3.19The committee recommends that further details be released as soon as possible on the Australian Government’s new International Development Policy’s key commitments on:

providing multi-year funding and capacity development to local organisations, with support as needed to meet policy requirements; and

designing a new Civil Society Partnerships Fund that will support local CSOs.

3.20In particular, detailing how these programs will apply in the context of Myanmar and resolve the challenges being faced under the current framework.