Australian Development Gateway

The Australian Development Gateway (ADG) strives to support members of the development community in their efforts to reduce poverty and enhance sustainable development in the Asia Pacific region. The site has been created with participation from members of government, private, academia and non-government organisations. User feedback mechanisms have been incorporated to guide future directions of the site. The site is optimised for low bandwidth access to enable the widest participation throughout the Asia Pacific region.

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WWF Australia

WWF is the world's largest independent conservation organisation. WWF is a network of 90 national and regional offices worldwide with an international secretariat in Switzerland. It is currently implementing 2,000 projects with an annual expenditure of around $550m, supported largely by its five million individual supporters. Over the past 20 years, WWF has invested more than $1.2b in some 12,000 projects worldwide.

WWF-Australia is an autonomous national office of the WWF network, reporting to its own board and raising its own funds. It has around 65,000 individual supporters and an annual program expenditure of more than $10m. Much of WWF-Australia's funding and program attention is devoted to the Asia-Pacific region with a particular focus on Papua New Guinea, the Pacific and Indonesia. WWF-Australia is a fully-accredited AusAID non-government organisation.

WWF's mission is to stop the degradation of the planet's natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature by:

- conserving the world's biological diversity
- ensuring that the use of renewable natural resources is sustainable
- promoting the reduction of pollution and wasteful consumption.

To guide WWF in its task of achieving the mission goals, the following principles have been adopted. WWF will:

- be global, independent, multicultural and non party political
- use the best available scientific information to address issues and critically evaluate all its endeavours
- seek dialogue and avoid unnecessary confrontation
- build concrete conservation solutions through a combination of field based projects, policy initiatives, capacity building and education work
- involve local communities and indigenous peoples in the planning and execution of its field programmes, respecting their cultural as well as economic needs
- strive to build partnerships with other organisations, governments, business and local communities to enhance WWF's effectiveness.

 

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