July-December 2011
Annual Report
About Us Save the Children is Australia’s leading independent emergency relief and development organisation for children. We save and protect children’s lives. We strive to give every child a safe and happy childhood. Globally, Save the Children works in 119 countries. In Australia, we work in every state and territory with programs in more than 90 locations. Our programs aim to ensure that children: • no longer die from preventable diseases • have the opportunity to learn through access to quality education • are supported and assisted in an emergency, such as a natural disaster • are safe and protected from harm • understand their rights and responsibilities • are heard and understood.
Our Vision Our vision is a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation.
Our Purpose Our purpose is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.
Our Values • • • • •
Accountability Ambition Collaboration Creativity Integrity
Save the Children Australia is a member of the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) and a signatory to its Code of Conduct. The Code requires members to meet high standards of corporate governance, public accountability and financial management. Save the Children Australia is fully accredited by the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), the Government agency responsible for managing Australia’s overseas aid program. Reach figures used throughout this report are estimates compiled during the 2011 calendar year, counting people reached directly and indirectly. Direct reach is girls, boys, women and men who have participated in Save the Children activities; indirect reach is the estimated number of family and/or community members of those who have participated in Save the Children activities and through mass media, information, education, communication and awareness raising activity.
Cover image: A young boy plays at our Intensive Supported Playscheme program in Ceduna, South Australia. Photo: Robert McKechnie/Save the Children Australia. This page: Phim Nika, 7, is part of our health program in Cambodia. Photo: Tom Greenwood/Save the Children Australia.
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about This Report
We are moving to a calendar year Annual Report in order to align our reporting with Save the Children International. Our last Annual Report covered the 2010-11 financial year. Thus, to facilitate the change to calendar year reporting, this interim Report addresses our activity between July and December 2011 (inclusive). In 2013, we will deliver our Annual Report for activities between January and December 2012. For more information on our reporting changes, see our CEO’s Report on page 2.
Highlights
During this six month period:
• Thanks to donations from the Australian public, more than $420,000 was released from the Children’s Emergency Fund to support 11 emergency responses. • An appeal was launched for the East Africa Food Crisis, one of our most successful, raising $2.5 million and receiving $3 million in grants from the Australian Government. These funds, combined with funds from our Save the Children International colleagues, helped us reach 2.5 million people in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia. • The Government of Vanuatu pledged over $1.56 million over the next 12 months to partner with Save the Children in delivering community primary health services and early childhood education nation-wide. • Schools throughout Timor-Leste participated in our Disaster Risk Reduction sessions on preparing for and surviving in emergencies, reaching over 12,000 children. • We launched a successful community initiative in Madang, Papua New Guinea to encourage HIV-positive youth to access available health services.
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• We selected 160 schools in Pakistan for the fi rst year of our Early Childhood Care and Education program. • Child and Family Centres, which will form important regional service hubs for families, have been established in Doomadgee and Mornington Island, Queensland, and in Halls Creek, Western Australia. • A $200,000 grant from the Department of the Attorney General in Western Australia was secured for our Helping Young People Engage initiative, which helps young people to avoid crime. • Through our child protection program, approximately 1,800 Nepalese children were reintegrated into society after serving in military camps. • As part of our commitment to quality and effectiveness, we evaluated nine programs in the period. • For every dollar we spend, 70 cents goes to our programs to save and protect children’s lives, and to educate the Australian community on development and humanitarian issues. Read more about our work in the second half of 2011 throughout this Report.
02 From the CEO
13 Reaching Out
03 From the Chair
14 Our People
04 Health
15 Our Partners
06 Education
16 Thank You
08 Child Protection
17 Governance
10 Emergencies
20 Financial Overview
12 Evaluating our Programs
21 Financial Statements
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Suzanne Dvorak, Chief Executive Officer, Save the Children Australia. Photo: Glenn Campbell/Save the Children Australia.
From the CEO A number of large-scale humanitarian crises came to the fore in the second half of 2011. This saw us draw on the strength of our relationship with Save the Children International (SCI) as we set out to achieve more for vulnerable children than ever before.
Indeed, a major part of our transition to the Global Strategy is now complete and we are experiencing the benefits of a more coordinated approach with SCI on the ground. This also affects how we monitor, measure and report on the effectiveness of our international programs. To ensure the accuracy and consistency of such evaluation we are moving to calendar year reporting, which is why we present this interim Report. Over the past six months we continued to deliver highly
effective health, education and child protection programs in Australia and abroad.
As East Africa plunged further into food crisis, threatening the lives of millions, we reached over 2.5 million people with lifesaving food and water. We have been able to maintain this strong presence as the region recovers and protects against future climate shocks. After many months spent planning, we launched our fouryear program in Afghanistan’s Uruzgan Province. This program is drawing on our key strengths as we work with program partners and local NGOs in one of the most difficult countries in the world to be a child and a mother.
transformed through their donations. Based on supporter feedback, we developed and launched our fi rst digital strategy, which means you can expect us to make better use of online and social media to share our stories. We were amazed by Members and volunteers Australia-wide. I was privileged to attend a number of volunteer-run events, including Perth’s inaugural Imagine Ball. We also commend the work of volunteers in
We also worked on bringing our supporters closer to the children whose lives are being
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Western Australia who ran book sales, raising more than $293,000 for our work. I would like to thank all staff for their dedication to our strategy, and our donors, Members, volunteers, corporate partners and government supporters for their valued contributions. Suzanne Dvorak Chief Executive Officer Save the Children Australia
Over the past six months we continued to deliver highly effective health, education and child protection programs.
Peter Watson, Chair, Save the Children Australia. Photo: Glenn Campbell/Save the Children Australia.
From the Chair
In our last Annual Report, I addressed the strategic changes being made to increase Save the Children Australia’s impact and effectiveness abroad. Transitioning to the Global Strategy continued in the second half of 2011 with major humanitarian crises revealing the need for and importance of a coordinated response with Save the Children International (SCI). The drought and food crisis in East Africa demonstrated that lives depend on a strategy that sees us working seamlessly with many of the 28 other organisations that make up SCI. By bringing our international program work under one management structure we can help more children around the world now and in the long-term. Both here and abroad, we remain committed to delivering sustainable health, education,
emergency and child protection programs that get to the heart of issues and empower communities through education. In the last six months, this has seen us ramp up our Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation programs, which you can read more about in this Report. Focusing our efforts on the causes of a child’s disadvantage, not just the effects, has made many of our programs successful and sustainable. Operation Newstart, for example, is an Australian program that engages young people in group activities that build their resilience and life-skills, giving them the confidence and motivation to pursue education and employment opportunities. After meeting with young people involved in this program in 2011, I was inspired by their dramatic change in outlook
Our ultimate aim with all our programs is to support communities through the process of becoming self-sufficient. and determination to overcome the challenges that had previously held them back. Our ultimate aim with all our programs is to support communities through the process of becoming selfsufficient – capable of taking on responsibility for the safety, health, education and growth of children and future generations. I would like to acknowledge the commitment of all Board Members, our executive team who have led the organisation through major change and
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shaped our strategy for the future, and of course, the staff and supporters who make our work possible. Indeed, through our work in 2011, we were able to reach 5,900,000 people. With the ongoing support of our staff, volunteers, donors and partners, we are confident that we can continue to make a real difference to the lives of children in need. Peter Watson Chair Save the Children Australia
Phouna, two months old, is weighed at a health centre in Laos which was reconstructed by Save the Children Australia. Photo: Jim Holmes/Save the Children.
Health More than seven million children under the age of five die every year from preventable diseases. The situation is particularly acute in south-east Asia and the Pacific, where despite significant progress over the past decade, 1,440 children still die every day. Save the Children works to protect mothers and children by remedying the causes of this suffering – isolation, lack of safe drinking water and poor access to quality health services. In the second half of 2011, we made progress in delivering better communication and more facilities and medical supplies to disadvantaged communities throughout the Asia-Pacific region.
Laos Our award-winning health program in Laos continues to grow with help from two key partners.
The Charitable Foundation’s support for our Primary Health Care Program began in Pak Ou district of Laos in April 2010, following earlier funding for projects in other districts. In less than two years, the district now has a referral hospital with a fully functional maternal and child health centre. Through these facilities, more than 23,000 people now have access to improved basic health services. Women also have improved access to immunisation, antenatal, delivery and postnatal care, and family planning services. In addition, over 5,200 people in 10 villages have clean water, household latrines and improved hygiene.
We were the principal recipient of the 1$day fundraising initiative, which raised money for initiatives that reduce global inequities in children’s health and education by asking everyone who can, to donate one dollar for those in need on 20 October 2011. The incredible public response to this initiative means we can build another health clinic in northern Laos, which will bring health care within an hour’s walk for up to 4,000 people in surrounding villages.
In 2012, our work with The Charitable Foundation will deliver water and sanitation initiatives to more than 5,500 people across 15 villages in Laos’ rural, remote and ethnic communities.
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Papua New Guinea We are working to reduce maternal and child mortality rates in Papua New Guinea, where just over half of all births are attended by skilled health personnel. As part of our Women and Children’s Health Project, supported by New Zealand’s aid program, we distributed birthing kits to our village birthing attendants who monitor the health of expectant mothers and assist with deliveries when a health facility isn’t available.
2,600,000 people reached through our health programs
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A health worker treats a mother and child at an Aid Post in Vanuatu. Photo: Ben Bohane/Save the Children Australia.
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scabies and other common skin diseases.
Medical supplies were also distributed to more than 700 of our health workers in East Sepik province, including some very remote river communities.
Their work has been supported with the introduction of a new communication service, which allows notifications, emergency alerts, and health and hygiene tips to be shared quickly and easily between villages and head office via SMS using a web interface. Health workers previously relied upon the collection and shipment of hardcopy messages and order forms.
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Toward our goal to refurbish or rebuild all Aid Posts by 2015, Save the Children and the Ministry of Health, with funding from AusAID, upgraded or rebuilt five Aid Posts in the period with local materials to ensure our health workers have a safe environment to provide the best possible care.
Sasen’s story, Vanuatu Sasen is a village health worker. From his Aid Post, the only health service on the island, he provides care to 70 people in his village and more than 500 people across 16 nearby villages. NEW ZEALAND
“Growing up I saw many people die because there was no one to help them. Our islands and villages are isolated with difficult access to transport and health services. I was determined to become a health worker to help my people,” Sasen said. Sasen is on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week. He walks from village to village to treat the sick. He is currently seeing cases of diarrhoea, acute respiratory infections, scabies and malaria, many of which threaten the lives of children. When no other services are available, he is called upon to help mothers during pregnancy and childbirth. To reach Annie who was struggling through a painful, complicated birth in a distant village, Sasen walked through the bush at night with only a torch to guide him. Sasen helped Annie through her complications, and she and her baby are now healthy. “I was scared. If it wasn’t for Sasen, I don’t know what would have happened,” Annie said.
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Children at our Early Childhood Care and Education program in Pakistan. Photo: Save the Children.
Education Poverty, gender inequalities, isolation and disabilities continue to prevent children from accessing education. Whether at home or abroad, we work with children and young people, parents, schools, governments, community groups and service providers to improve learning outcomes.
With funding from AusAID, we began work in four districts of the highly volatile Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The program will reach out to 400 schools and 200,000 children, and progress our work with the Government to establish a national early childhood care and education system.
Pakistan
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There are more than 7.1 million children aged between three and five years in Pakistan. Less than five million of these children will complete primary school and only half will grow up to be literate adults.
Our Playschemes provide early learning activities, games, education and parenting support for disadvantaged families and children under the age of six in more than 80 urban, regional and remote communities across Australia.
Launched in the second half of 2011, our Early Childhood Care and Education program has selected 160 schools for its first year. This includes around 24,000 students of whom more than 60% are girls.
Operating for more than 30 years, the program opened new sites this year in Greater Shepparton, Victoria and Kununurra, Western Australia, and extended to families
691,500 people reached through our education programs
in Villawood Immigration Detention Centre in Sydney. In 2012, a Playscheme will commence in south-east Perth. Working with Maari Ma Community Health and other groups in Wilcannia, New South Wales, our Playscheme is supporting families and preparing children for school. The staff of eight local women, the majority of whom are Aboriginal, have reported that parents are feeling more comfortable with structured play and learning, essential
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for the transition into kindergarten. Also in New South Wales, our Glebe Pathways Project reaches marginalised young people through community-based learning after they have experienced difficulties at school and with the law. The program saw all eight Year 10 students graduate with their school certificates. Many have taken on further education or employment – achievements that all students, staff and supporters can be proud of.
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A young girl enjoys painting at our Playscheme program in Victoria. Photo: Robert McKechnie/Save the Children Australia.
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Our School Attendance program to work with schools and communities in providing has gone from strength to where Save the Children Australia children at riskworks of truancy strength. WeCountries were recognised with support, such as a for our valuable contribution Countries where Save the Children International works nutritious breakfast, allowing towards education the Save the Children Countriesinwhere did not have a presence in 2010–11 them to participate regularly Northern Territory in the NAB The delineation of national boundaries on this map should not be considered definitive. Schools First Impact Award for in school. our partnership with Millner In Broome, Save the Children Primary School, Darwin. Australia began managing Save the Children Australia Helping Young People Engage and four other community (HYPE), a community initiative organisations are helping the that helps young people stay school and community, safe and avoid the justice by providing support to system. Run in partnership Aboriginal children and with the Shire of Broome, families to improve school the Broome Police, Youth participation and learning Justice and the Department outcomes. Judges described for Child Protection, program the program as an excellent staff engage with at-risk example of a partnership young people on the streets where everyone is working of Broome during peak times towards a common goal – of anti-social behaviour, and to give disadvantaged transport them to safer spaces. children an education. Our School Attendance program has been expanded to Ceduna in South Australia
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Kirsty and Seth’s story, Australia Two years ago, Kirsty received her child, Seth, back from foster care. She had limited parenting skills and was struggling to cope with two-year-old Seth. After being absent during his early years, Seth was difficult, displaying anger and violence towards Kirsty and others. Kirsty would yell when Seth acted up and, following her example, Seth would yell back. But, by attending our Playscheme, mother and child formed a more positive connection. Staff worked with Kirsty to establish a routine for her children that would prepare them for kinder and school. They helped her enforce “time-outs” and built her confidence as a parent. Through group activities with other children and families, Seth was introduced to sharing, taking turns and listening. Now aged four, Seth is much happier and more settled. He listens to his mother and can be reasoned with when things are calmly explained. Initially, attending kinder one day a week was difficult for Seth. But dropping back to half-days and returning to our Playscheme for a while helped him transition. Seth is now thriving at kinder.
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A young child at our program in Cambodia. Photo: Jim Holmes/Save the Children.
Child Protection Where there is poverty and confl ict in our world, children and youth will be vulnerable to neglect, abuse, exploitation and criminal activity. We continue to protect, defend and promote the rights of children in situations where their voices are not being heard.
Indonesia There are approximately 8,000 childcare institutions in Indonesia, with an estimated half a million children in residence. The number of institutions has quadrupled over the past decade, and despite being dubbed “orphanages�, most of these children have parents. Over four months, Save the Children made it possible for 60 children to be reunited with their families by covering school fees and
providing medical support, legal assistance, counselling and livelihood support to keep families together.
We also worked with the Indonesian Government to distribute the National Standards of Care for childcare institutions
Nepal
While Nepal’s decade-long civil war ended in 2006, the fight is not over for its people. Between 6,000 and 9,000 children are believed to have served in the Maoist forces and thousands more were affected by the conflict.
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people reached through our child protection programs and to consolidate a national database that will see the safety and welfare of 36,000 additional children without parental care monitored by the Ministry of Social Affairs.
We supported more than 1,800 of these children to be reintegrated into society, providing them with hygiene kits, food and everything they need to attend school, including bags, clothing, lunches and
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stationery, and covering school fees. We also formed clubs that run peace-building activities with children, strengthening their community support networks and helping them manage the trauma and conflict they have experienced. As many as 3,000 children are still suspected to be serving in military camps despite Government assurances to end the practice, end future recruitment and help rehabilitate children who have suffered from war and confl ict situations.
Solomon Islands In the Solomon Islands, 18 crime prevention committees have been formed in communities across five provinces to work with children and young people who have come into contact with the law. We also reviewed community
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Children in Papua New Guinea. Photo: Tom Greenwood/Save the Children Australia.
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understanding of the justice system, resulting in the publication of a Children, Young People and the Law Handbook. Launched by the Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands during Law Week, the Handbook includes descriptions of common laws, crimes and penalties, and the rights of children. It aims to help communities, Australia chiefsworks and other leaders determine how crimes nternational committed works by children can be handled appropriately. MADA GA SC AR
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and Family Centres, which will form important regional service hubs for families, have been established in Doomadgee and Mornington Island, Queensland, and in Halls Creek, Western Australia.
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Mathew’s story, Papua New Guinea Mathew, 39, is a maintenance worker who lives with his wife and four children, aged 13-22. NEW ZEALAND
He noticed a difference in his wife after she attended Save the Children’s positive discipline course three months earlier.
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As part of our Most Vulnerable Children program, a media workshop for 17 journalists in Papua New Guinea was held on the United Nations did not have a presence in 2010–11 Convention on the Rights Australia map should not be considered definitive. of the Child to discuss the media’s role in protecting We commenced work on a new three-year agreement children and their rights. to expand our parenting We are also training staff support and early childhood care and development work in in child trauma counselling and positive discipline, and Australia with funding from helping the Division for the Australian Department Community Development of Families, Housing, process child protection cases. Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. Child
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“Before, my wife shouted at the kids and sometimes hit them. The family was in disorder. Now she doesn’t shout or hit and there has been a big improvement – now the kids listen to their mother.” “I did the course last week. I learned about the rights of children and replacing corporal punishment with positive discipline. “Before I would have shouted at my youngest daughter and slapped her bottom. But now I don’t do that. I sit down and talk to her so that her confidence will grow.” Mathew says the course has had a tremendous impact on families, children, community leaders and the community. “I see kids [in the settlement] who are aggressive and pick-pocket; kids who have grown up with physical and emotional punishment and ended up on the street. Children need to be protected from violence,” he said.
A family collects supplies from Save the Children following the floods in the Philippines. Photo: Save the Children.
Emergencies In 2011, the East Africa Food Crisis put 13 million people at risk of starvation. Storms and floods across Asia affected more than nine million people and in Afghanistan’s Uruzgan province, nine children continue to perish every day due to drought, malnutrition and preventable diseases.
East Africa Food Crisis East Africa has fallen into one of its worst food crises in 60 years. Consecutive seasons without rain have led to failed harvests and the death of livestock, resulting in a broken food system and, for the people, a fight for survival. Scaling up our activities from late 2010, we were one of the fi rst organisations to warn of the humanitarian disaster and to respond by sending eight people from our Humanitarian and Emergency Response
Team to join our international colleagues in responding to this crisis.
On the ground in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia, we provided food, water and medicine to families who have lost their incomes. With our Save the Children colleagues internationally, we reached 2.5 million people in the region thanks to our Children’s Emergency Fund and our public appeal, which was matched by the Australian Government’s Horn of Africa Dollar for Dollar initiative. Thank you to all the individuals, families, schools, associations and corporate partners who donated so generously.
Asia Floods In Asia, communities lost their homes, livelihoods and infrastructure due to some of the worst floods in recent memory.
1,000,000 people reached through our emergencies programs
The effects of tropical storms and monsoonal rains caused flooding in the Mekong Delta affecting Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos, and there were separate floods in Thailand, Myanmar, the Philippines, Pakistan and India. We sent teams to Cambodia, Thailand and the Philippines to lead the emergency responses, providing education, child protection, health services, sanitation and hygiene assistance and water. “Because of the Children’s Emergency Fund, we were able
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to respond quickly, distributing basic items such as cooking utensils, blankets, jerry cans and soap to families who lost everything,” said Sarah Ireland, Save the Children Australia’s Operations Manager who led our emergency response.
Uruzgan, Afghanistan ‘Children of Uruzgan’ is our flagship program in Afghanistan. The program is funded under a multi-year agreement with AusAID for $35.7 million, the largest ever awarded to a nongovernment organisation.
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Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaption Programs
Alongside our relief work in East Africa, our DRR and CCA initiatives are safeguarding the community against future climate shocks. Livelihoods diversification, livestock management improvements and drought-resilient crops mean communities are better able to withstand disasters.
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In 2012, in partnership with five Afghan NGOs, the program will start establishing health centres, community schools and women’s literacy groups. We will also begin to train muchneeded teachers, health workers and midwives in a province where less than 1% of women can read and 87% of women deliver babies at home without skilled help, causing 300 preventable deaths each year.
Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaption (CCA) programs equip them to prepare for and respond to emergencies.
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Planning work has already started on the program, which will work with impoverished communities lacking the most basic of health and education services due to years of devastating confl ict.
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“We gave Umi antibiotics and a sugar solution, and referred her to the hospital immediately,” said Daniel, a Save the Children health worker. Umi was referred to Habaswein District Hospital because she weighed just 1.7 kilograms.
theChildren hospital they gave Umi a feeding tube, an oral nutritional Countries where the Australia works Timor-Leste is regularly hit bySave “At supplement and antibiotics,” said Daniel. floods, landslides, strong winds, where Save Umi thewasChildren International works and Countries catastrophic earthquakes also given a high-nutrient peanut paste to help her gain weight. and tsunamis. Our DRR in Now, at nine months of age, Umi is a smiling baby girl. Countries where Primary Schools project saw Save the Children did not have a presence in 2010–1 “My daughter was so sick that day, she was dying. But today I have us train facilitators to run a healthy daughter I’m should so happy,”not saidbe Umi’s mother, Amina. The delineation boundaries on thisand map considered definitive. sessions in schoolsof onnational topics After being released from hospital, a Save the Children nutritionist including safe evacuation. and community worker visited the family daily to educate them These sessions have been on exclusive breastfeeding, the best way to ensure Umi didn’t delivered in 118 schools become malnourished again. across Manufahi and Ainaro, reaching 12,365 children.
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A mother and child at a remote village in India. Photo: Save the Children Australia.
Evaluating our Programs Evaluations help ensure our programs meet their objectives and tell us what works well and what can be improved.
Between July and December 2011, we evaluated nine programs: • Lifeskills Project, Reiby Juvenile Justice Centre, New South Wales • Allied Health Project Bourke, New South Wales • PNG-Australia Sexual Health Improvement Program, Papua New Guinea • ‘Sanap Wantaim’, HIV prevention program, Papua New Guinea • Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Program, India • Youth Outreach Partnership Program (through an evaluation of the Solomon Islands NGO Partnership Agreement), Solomon Islands
• Sexual Reproductive Health Program, Vanuatu • Emergency response to internal displacement, Ivory Coast and Liberia • Emergency response to food crisis, Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia.
Below is more detail on three of these evaluations.
Health: Maternal and Child Health Project in India In the districts of Rajasthan, Bihar and West Bengal, this project aimed to improve access to and use of maternal, child and nutrition services and improve the skills of community health workers. The evaluation recommended that the project should continue to focus on community education and building capacity in local support groups.
Emergencies: Emergency Response to the food crisis in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia
Children and families reported that our response, which included water and food distribution, was relevant to their needs. The evaluation helped identify where and what type of ongoing support is needed in the region. This included providing more education and child protection services and broadening the geographic spread of the response.
Education: Lifeskills Project, Reiby Detention Centre, New South Wales This evaluation, conducted by the University of New South Wales, found that the main strength of the program is its inclusiveness, being that it is open to all boys at the Centre,
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and is linked to a number of other support services. The high ratio of volunteer tutors to students also makes it highly effective, particularly because many of our tutors have a long-standing involvement in the project.
Learning from evaluations: Early Childhood Desktop Study We commissioned Griffith University in Queensland to conduct a review of past Playscheme program evaluations and wider literature on the benefits of playgroups. The study found that playgroups have created positive outcomes for children throughout their foundation years and into young adulthood. The importance of maintaining our qualification standards for early childhood teachers and workers was highlighted.
School children get involved in our Born to Knit campaign. Photo: Robert McKechnie/Save the Children Australia.
Reaching Out
Our programs wouldn’t exist if we didn’t share stories about lives that have been helped and transformed through our work. This is why communication and engaging supporters, governments and the media on issues that vulnerable children face is so important.
Campaigns and Online Knitting needles were laid down in September 2011 with the successful Born to Knit campaign coming to a close after months of furious looping and stitching. Thanks to thousands of knitters, 19,477 blankets were sent to our health programs in India, Cambodia and Laos. We estimated the value of these gifts at more than $973,000. Over 2.93 million Australians were reached through media coverage on the campaign, while the campaign blog
attracted over 53,000 views and 287 subscribers.
We are now implementing our Digital Strategy to bring supporters closer to the children they help. The strategy has seen our online presence improve as we provide more dynamic content, while also integrating our social media sites, blogs and online shop. Our online community is growing fast with more than 176,700 visitors to the Save the Children website in the second half of 2011, which represents a 15% increase on the previous six months.
Advocacy With children dying as a result of conflict and drought in many places around the world, we have called for more support, better coordination and tracking of Australian aid.
We have lobbied for funding for more health workers, as they are one of the keys to reducing maternal and child mortality. Our research significantly contributed to the ACFID submission for the Federal Budget. We influenced the Australian Government’s commitment to health workers at the UN General Assembly in New York in September 2011. We have worked with the child rights sector to encourage the Federal Government to commit to the establishment
of a National Children’s Commissioner. This important role will ensure that Australia can further protect the rights of children. We also raised public awareness on child rights through the media with opinion pieces on the need for better protection for children in Australia and around the world, aid effectiveness, positive discipline and the value of health workers.
We have lobbied for funding for more health workers, as they are one of the keys to reducing maternal and child mortality.
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Save the Children staff member, Pirjo, speaks to a parent at our Playscheme program in Australia. Photo: Robert McKechnie/Save the Children Australia.
Our People The passion of our supporters and staff helped our programs grow in 2011.
Supporters Thank you to our 74,000 supporters who donate regularly to Save the Children. In just six months our regular givers contributed over $13.1 million to our work. Thank you also to over 30,000 people who donated to our appeals. The second half of 2011 saw some incredible fundraising events run and milestones achieved including: • the University of Western Australia Branch and South of the River Branch booksales, which raised more than $293,000 thanks to hundreds of volunteers and great support from the community and local media;
• Tasmania’s Annual Gala Ball, which raised $65,000; • the 1st anniversary of our K4K store in Melbourne, selling quality kids clothing; and • the 50th anniversary of our Mandurah branch in Western Australia. We also had a wonderful contribution from volunteers. Our retail volunteers, for example, contributed more than 65,000 hours of work which, at AusAID’s volunteer hourly rate, is valued at more than $1.39 million. Dr Barbara Beddoes and Joan Clement are just two of our wonderful supporters. Barbara and Joan have spent a combined total of about 60 years as Members, running fundraising events and volunteering in our retail stores. Toowoomba’s branch secretary, Sheena Liley
is delighted that the dedication of these women has been recognised. “It was an honour to nominate Barbara and Joan as Life Members. We are very fortunate to have them in our midst. They continue to inspire us,” she said.
Staff In 2011, we introduced a new staff role classification framework for our Australian programs, which provides clearer career progression for our employees and a consistent approach across the states. We also provided a number of new training opportunities, including: • a national training workshop for program staff on positive discipline;
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• an Emergency Leadership Course for people from across the sector, including our staff, in partnership with Deakin University with funding from the Australian Government; • an Emergencies Foundation Course in Victoria, which taught 37 staff from our Australia and overseas offices the skills required to be deployed an emergency response; and • early childhood staff workshops across the country. The compassion, energy and commitment of our 737 staff, 2,700 volunteers and 940 Members is the life-blood of our organisation.
Children play at our Early Learning Centre in Victoria. Photo: Robert McKechnie/Save the Children Australia.
Our Partners
Whether through funds, time, energy or all three, our corporate partners help us reach more vulnerable children. As these relationships grow, we find new ways to achieve breakthroughs. Here are some examples.
Reckitt Benckiser In 2011, Reckitt Benckiser employees were involved in a work placement initiative with our Glebe Pathways students in New South Wales, and also provided funding for the program along with our youth program in Wilcannia, New South Wales, and our health program in Timor-Leste.
Planet Wheeler Foundation The Foundation committed significant funding over two years to enhance our education programs in Afghanistan. It will be used to train 90 Afghan girls in
teaching and create 135 early learning groups, giving 3,000 children access to education.
Procter & Gamble Procter & Gamble (P&G) supported a new ‘Story Swag’ initiative for our Early Childhood Care and Development Program in Australia. The Story Swags will help children develop early literacy skills and a love of books. P&G also supported the Good Leadership program at schools in New Zealand and rehabilitation activities in Christchurch following the earthquake.
Accenture Accenture supports Save the Children in a number of areas, recently pledging $50,000 to help Indigenous Australians through our Glebe Pathways project. This donation will help young people develop
the skills they need for further education and employment.
SchoolAid SchoolAid’s support continued with donations to a number of emergencies including the Cyclone Yasi Recovery project and the Back to School project for children affected by Japan’s earthquake and tsunami. This has helped thousands of children return to school and gain a sense of routine following these disasters.
Kent Moving & Storage Kent Moving & Storage is one of our newest corporate partners. For every removal booked on their website, Kent is donating $10 to Save the Children with a target of $20,000 set for 2012.
IKEA For every IKEA Soft Toy
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purchased during November and December 2011, IKEA donated one euro to our global education programs. In Australia, IKEA stores also ran “give twice” activities, where customers could choose to give back the soft toy they’d purchased. The gifts were then given to children in Save the Children’s programs around the country. For information on how The Charitable Foundation and the 1$day fundraising initiative support our programs in Laos, see page 4.
Gifts in-kind We also received in-kind support worth more than $240,000, including materials for our programs and professional services. We thank all our partners for their support.
Thank You Government Support
Gifts Given in Memory
We would like to thank and recognise the Australian Government, through AusAID, for financial support and collaboration in our emergency relief and development work internationally. We would like to thank the following government agencies who provide funding to our Australian programs: • Australian Government Attorney General’s Department • Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations • Australian Government Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs • Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing • Australian Government Department of Immigration and Citizenship • Department of Community Services, NSW • Department of Education and Training, NSW • Department of Education and Training, QLD • Department of Communities, QLD • Department of Corrective Services, QLD • Department of Education and Children’s Services, SA • Department for Families and Communities, SA • Office for Youth, SA • Department of Education, TAS • Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, VIC • Department of Child Protection, WA • Department of Education, WA • Department of the Attorney General, WA • Western Australia Police
We were grateful to have received gifts given in memory of the following Save the Children Australia supporters: • Helen Gladys Clarke • Sebastian Gioia
National Partners over $5,000 support • 1$day • Accenture • AMP Capital Investors Limited • AMEX • Australian Country Spinners • Bulgari • Cubed Communications • GlaxoSmithKline Australia • IKEA • Ipsos • Kent Moving • Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd • LUCRF • Macquarie Group • National Australia Bank • Palais Theatre • PricewaterhouseCoopers Foundation • Procter & Gamble Australia Pty Ltd • Reckitt Benckiser • Staedtler (Pacific) Pty Ltd • Tasmanian Salmon Growers Association • The Boston Consulting Group • Toys ‘R’ Us
Philanthropic Support • ANZ Trustees Limited • Collier Charitable Fund • Equity Trustees • Heaton Foundation • Mrs Noeline P Shields • Planet Wheeler Foundation • School AID • The Andrews Foundation • The Charitable Foundation • The Dame Elisabeth Murdoch Charitable Distribution Account • The Sky Foundation • The Trust Company • The William Angliss Charitable Fund • United Way, WA • Women of the University Fund • Youth Foundations Victoria Save the Children would also like to thank those philanthropic partners who have helped us during the year to improve the lives of children and young people around the world, but who wish to remain anonymous. Your support is wholeheartedly appreciated.
Gifts in Wills Gifts included in the Wills of our supporters have allowed us to do so much more for children this year. We were privileged to have received gifts in Wills from the Estates of the following supporters: • Anne Primrose Louise Adams • Barbara Anne Kinsella • Clara Broadhurst Memorial Charitable Fund • Hilton White Estate • Janis John Eglitis • Jean Fielding Tweedie • Kenneth R Laycock • Laudes Mary Morgan • Leslie Hocking Cocks • Lindsay James Baldy • Margaret Herring • Peter Noel Wiseman • Richenda Elizabeth Evans • Ruby Dorothy Crockett • Shirley Gertrude Lane • Verity Joan Scott • William McCarrey
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Partners • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Health Service • Black Community Housing • Ceduna Koonibba Aboriginal Health Service • Danila Dilba Health Service • Djarindjin Aboriginal Corporation • Doomadgee Aboriginal Shire Council • Early Learning Incorporated “Little Nuggets” • Gallang Place • Jane Arnold Hostel • Joyce Wilding Supported Accommodation Service • Kimberley Institute • Koonibba Aboriginal Community Council • Kurrajong Aboriginal Products • Larrakia Nation Aboriginal Corporation • Lingiari Foundation • Maari Ma Health Aboriginal Corporation • Marninwantikura Women’s Resource Centre • Minjumbal Indigenous Centre • Mornington Island Shire Council • Murri Sisters • Murrigunyah Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporation for Women • Nungeena Aboriginal Corporation for Women’s Business • Nyoongar Patrol System • Scotdesco Aboriginal Community Council • Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care • Thamarrurr Development Corporation • The Murri School • Tjutjunuaku Worka Tjuta • Victorian Aboriginal Community Services Association • Waijun Centre, Mabel Park High School • Waringarri Aboriginal Corporation • Warmun Community (Turkey Creek) • Wunan • Yalata Aboriginal Community Council
Community Partnerships • Ashley Youth Detention Centre, Department of Health and Human Services, TAS • Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, VIC • Australian Federal Police • Australian Sports Commission • Cambodian Children Against Starvation and Violence Association • Community Youth Justice, Department of Health and Human Services, TAS • Di Taylor, WA • Early Intervention Units, Tasmania Police • EuropeAid • Forum Tau Matan, Timor-Leste • Glebe Youth Service, NSW • Habitat 4 Humanity • Health Net, Timor-Leste • Howard Park Wines, WA • ING, NSW • International Organization for Migration • Kampuchea Action for Primary Education, Cambodia • KHEMARA, Cambodia • Khmer Women Community Development, Cambodia • Luta ba Futuru, Timor-Leste • Luta ba Mudansa, Timor-Leste • Magistrates Court, TAS • Mantana, NSW • Manusher Jonno Foundation, Bangladesh • Millner Primary School Partnership, NT • NZAID, Save the Children New Zealand • Operation Newstart, VIC • Perugino Restaurant, WA • Phnom Srey Organisation for Development, Cambodia • Plan International, Bangladesh • Playgroup Victoria • Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands • Secretariat of the Pacific Community • Social Services Cambodia • Telstra, WA • The Esplanade Hotel Fremantle, WA • The Global Fund for HIV, TB and Malaria • UNICEF • VicRelief Foodbank, VIC • West Footscray Neighbourhood House, VIC • Women Organization for Modern Economic and Nursing, Cambodia
Pro Bono Support • Allens Arthur Robinson • Andrews Group • Cornwall Stodart • Minter Ellison • Print Impressions • Quantum Linx • Sputnik Agency • Strategic Project Partners
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For a full list of the corporate partners, trusts and foundations and community organisations who supported us this year, please visit savethechildren.org.au/ support2012
A child at play at our Playscheme program in Australia. Photo: Robert McKechnie/Save the Children Australia.
Save the Children Australia is incorporated as a company limited by guarantee. It operates nationally in all States of Australia and in some overseas countries to promote the welfare and rights of children. Save the Children Australia’s corporate governance and performance are the responsibility of its directors. The Board delegates the responsibility for the day-to-day administration of the company to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) who, together with the Executive Committee, is accountable to the Board. The roles of Chairman and CEO are separate. There is a maximum of 14 directors. There must be at least one director resident in each State. A director who has served six consecutive years from date of appointment will not be eligible for
reappointment or re-election unless a minimum period of one year has lapsed since that person last held the position of director or the members in general meeting specifically give their approval. State Councils operate in some States. Their role is to build community support for Save the Children in their State, fundraising and (on occasion) performing governance tasks such as overseeing the application of State grants to meet specific State government requirements.
2. Remuneration of directors and State Council members Directors and State Council members demonstrate their commitment to Save the Children Australia’s mission through the contribution of their skills and experience to the collective work of the Board or State Council, the contribution of their
personal time and efforts, advocacy within their social and business networks of Save the Children Australia’s mission and the programs implemented to achieve the mission, and through whatever fi nancial contributions they make personally or persuade others to make. They receive no return in cash or kind other than reimbursement of necessarily incurred expenditure. Their sole reward is the satisfaction of seeing the achievement of the goal of Save the Children to improve the lives of children.
3. Board meetings The Board meets at least six times a year. There are generally four scheduled face-to-face meetings and two teleconference meetings. Additional meetings are called as required. The number of directors’ meetings and number of
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meetings attended by each of the directors during the six month period ended 31 December 2011 were:
Board Member
Meetings Held
1. Introduction
Meetings Attended
Governance
Peter Watson
2
3
Lynne Jensen
3
3
Anthony Nicholls
3
3
Bruce Mansfield
3
3
Jenny-Ellen Kennedy
3
3
Adrian Morgan
2
3
Bernard Wheelahan
3
3
Andrew Sisson
3
3
Mark Laurie
2
2
Bruce Meagher
3
3
Janet Grieve
2
3
Jan Stewart
3
3
Thomas Hardy
3
3
4. Board committees A The Board Audit Committee assists the Board to discharge its obligations in relation to the legal, ethical and fi nancial integrity of the organisation and to maintain the Board’s accountability to stakeholders. Board Audit Committee members are Andrew Sisson (Chair), Bruce Mansfield, Tom Hardy and John Yiannis (external member). B The Board Risk Management Committee assists the Board to discharge its risk management responsibilities by providing governance, oversight and strategic direction. Board Risk Management Committee members are Bernard Wheelahan (Chair), Peter Watson and Jan Stewart. C The Program Committee assists the Board and the Executive Committee to determine strategy and priorities for Save the Children’s program work, as well as monitoring program performance and establishing general policies for the execution of program work. The members of the Program Committee are Lynne Jensen (Chair), Peter Watson, Jan Stewart, Bruce Meagher, Jill Cameron (external member) and Collette Tayler (external member). D The Nomination Committee nominates individuals to be elected or appointed to the Board, makes recommendations to the Board for membership and chairs of State Councils, undertakes the CEO’s annual performance and remuneration review and has an overview role in regard to remuneration, employment and redundancy of key senior executives.
Nomination Committee members are Janet Grieve (Chair), Bruce Mansfield, Adrian Morgan, Bruce Meagher, Peter Watson and John Allen (external member). E The Membership and Fundraising Committee advises and makes recommendations to the Board on membership and fundraising issues and receives requests from the Board on specific membership and fundraising needs. Membership and Fundraising Committee members are JennyEllen Kennedy (Chair), Andrew Sisson, Janet Grieve and Ken McLeod (external member). F The Strategy and Planning Committee advises and makes recommendations to the Board on the development of strategy and plans and associated budgeting/performance reporting functions, as well as providing coordination of its work with that of the Program Committee and the Membership and Fundraising Committee. The Strategy and Planning Committee members are Peter Watson (Chair), Lynne Jensen, Bruce Meagher, Bernard Wheelahan and Cathy Robinson (external member). Note: The CEO and other company employees attend the meetings of the Board committees to report to the committees and assist in their operation.
6. Executive remuneration Executive remuneration is based on current market conditions and trends.
7. Our Board The Board of Directors as at 31 December 2011: Peter Watson Dip CE, FTSE, MAICD, MIEA
Chairman of Strategy & Planning Committee, Member of Program Committee, Nomination Committee and Board Risk Management Committee Peter is the Chairman of AssetCo and the Chairman of the Victoria Regional Rail Link Authority and a director of Logicamms Pty Ltd. He has 30 years experience in both private and public companies including 10 years as CEO and MD with a focus on project and asset management of physical infrastructure. Peter has been a director of Save the Children since March 2009 and became Chairman in November 2010. Lynne Jensen BA, LLB(Hons)
Deputy Chairman. Chairman of Program Committee and Member of Strategy & Planning Committee Lynne is the Group General Counsel of Grocon Group and a former partner of Allens Arthur Robinson. She is a lawyer with more than 20 years experience in corporate and commercial law. Lynne has been a director of Save the Children since 2006.
5. Executive committee The Executive Committee supports the CEO and meets fortnightly to review the operation and management of Save the Children Australia.
Bruce Mansfield BComm, FFINSIA, MAICD
Member of the Board Audit Committee and Nomination Committee
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Bruce is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of eftpos Payments Australia Limited. He has had more than 20 years experience in consumer payments and a further 10 years in information technology. Bruce has been a director of Save the Children since 2007. Jenny-Ellen Kennedy BA, LLB(Hons)
Chairman of Membership & Fundraising Committee Jenny-Ellen is a partner at James Groom & Co. Lawyers. Jenny-Ellen has been a director of Save the Children since 2007 and is also a Member of Save the Children’s Tasmanian State Council. Adrian Morgan BA (Psych)
Member of Nomination Committee Adrian is the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Lutheran Community Care, a large provider of aged, disability and family services in Queensland. He has been a member of several national and local not-forprofit boards, including holding the role of Board Chair for a professional association for five years. Adrian’s previous work as a management consultant included involvement in several studies relating to the care of vulnerable children in supported accommodation. Adrian has been a director of Save the Children since November 2007. Andrew Sisson BSc, FAICD
Treasurer, Chairman of the Board Audit Committee and Member of Membership & Fundraising Committee Andrew is the Managing Director of Balanced Equity Management Pty Limited
and has extensive experience in fi nancial analysis and investment management. Andrew has been a director of Save the Children since June 2009. Bruce Meagher BA, LLB(Syd)
Member of Nomination Committee, Program Committee and Strategy & Planning Committee Bruce is the Director of Strategy and Communications with SBS Corporation. He has more than 20 years experience in law, public policy, government relations, corporate communications and general management. Bruce has been an adviser to two federal cabinet ministers and a senior executive in the media, telecommunications and fi nancial services industries. He has been a director of Save the Children since November 2009. Janet Grieve FAICD
Chairman of Nomination Committee and Member of Membership & Fundraising Committee Janet spent 10 years as a tribunal member of the Commonwealth Remuneration Tribunal and 20 years as managing director of a national public relations company. She has had experience as company director on a range of private sector, government and not for profit boards. Janet has been a director of Save the Children since November 2009. Jan Stewart BA, MASW
Member of Program Committee and Board Risk Management Committee
Jan has been the Chief Executive Officer since 1992 of Lotterywest, the Western Australian state lottery. Prior to this Jan was the Director of Grants and Community Development at Lotterywest and also spent 10 years as the Chief Social Worker at Princess Margaret Hospital, Perth’s major paediatric hospital. She is a member of a wide range of community boards and committees. Jan has been a director of Save the Children since February 2010. Thomas Hardy BCA, CA
Member of the Board Audit Committee Tom is a New Zealand Chartered Accountant and a member of the New Zealand Institute of Directors. He acts as a consultant to government and private enterprises. A former partner in an international accountancy practice, Tom has 40 years experience in the chartered accounting profession. He has been a director of Save the Children since May 2010 and a director of Save the Children New Zealand since February 2007. Bernard Wheelahan BSc, Dip Ed, FRACI, FAICD, FAus IMM, FAIE
Chairman of Board Risk Management Committee and Member of Strategy & Planning Committee Bernard is an independent company director. His experience has been mainly in the energy sector in Australia and internationally. He has advisory roles with The Global Foundation and the Australian National University Centre for Latin American Studies. Bernard has been a director of
Save the Children since November 2010. Directors have been in office from the start of the fi nancial period to the date of this report other than Anthony Nicholls (retired during the fi nancial period) and Mark Laurie (resigned during the fi nancial period).
8. Internal controls and management of risk Save the Children Australia has established controls designed to safeguard its assets and interests, and to ensure the integrity of its reporting.
9. Ethics and conduct Save the Children Australia is committed to ensuring that all its activities are conducted legally, ethically and in accordance with high standards of integrity. Board members, employees and volunteers are required to signify acceptance of, and comply with, the company’s Child Protection Policy and Code of Conduct. Save the Children Australia has also developed policies which deal with occupational health and safety, intellectual property, privacy, equal opportunity, and employee grievances to assist employees and volunteers in meeting the high standards of ethics and conduct required.
10. Member relationships Save the Children Australia is committed to providing members and donors with relevant and timely information regarding its operations and management through a website, member meetings, and direct communications.
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Members are encouraged to attend and vote at annual general meetings.
11. Governance best practice Save the Children Association, of which Save the Children Australia is a member, requires that the governance processes of its members ensure that the organisation effectively and efficiently strives to achieve its stated goals, while protecting the public interest and trust.
Financial Overview for the period ended 31 December 2011
Where the money comes from 6 months to 31 Dec 2011 (Expressed as a % of Total Income)
Where the money comes from
Where the money goes
Community Support Income: donations, fundraising, legacies and bequests received from the Australian public and corporations.
Program Expenditure: long-term development and emergency response work across both international and domestic programs, as well as community education which includes costs related to informing and educating the Australian community of development, humanitarian and global justice issues.
Grants – AusAID: grants received from the Australian Government’s overseas aid program. Grants – Other: grants received from other Australian Government departments and international organisations and government bodies. Other Income: includes investment income and revenue from commercial activities. Total income for the six months ending 31 December 2011 was $38million, with AusAID funding still a core part of our funding and representing 23% of our funding source for the six months. Continued generous public support enables our community support income to assist us to effectively respond to numerous emergencies including our successful Horn Of Africa appeals which also attracted dollar for dollar matching of $1.5 million from AusAID for the month of November. We have experienced strong growth over the past three years, particularly in the area of AusAID and other institutional grant funding. Community support remains healthy and provides a strong base to enable us to increase our reach and impact across our programming areas.
Fundraising Costs: associated with developing and securing our donor supporter base in order to attract donations to fund our program and advocacy work. Accountability and Administration Expenses: covers administrative and other costs required to efficiently run the organisation. It includes items such as staff costs in areas such as finance, IT, human resources, administration, office maintenance, audit and legal fees, insurance premiums, and IT equipment costs. Key ratios are reported in the main body of the annual report against total income, as in previous years. During the six months ending 31 December 2011, total expenditure exceeded revenues by $3.6million. During the period there was continued focus on strengthening internal systems and infrastructure to support the strategic plan.
Grants – Other: 19%
Save the Children’s program work in 119 countries under one management structure; • Further costs spent on appeals to support Cyclone Yasi in Queensland and the floods in Pakistan ; and • Support costs to increase our response to these and other emergency appeals and programs. The charts tracking key expenditure ratios have therefore been expressed as a percentage of total expenditure, rather than total income, given this year’s excess of expenditure over revenue. During the period we funded long-term development and emergency response work in many regions around the world. We program directly in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and TimorLeste. In other countries we work through Save the Children International and other Save the Children member organisations. The chart details our total programming spend during the year by region.
Other Income: 7%
Grants – AusAID: 23%
Community Support Income: 51%
Where the money comes from 2010-2011 $35000000 $30000000 $25000000 $20000000 $15000000 $10000000 $5000000 $0
Community Grants – Grants – Other Support AusAID Other Income Income Annual Jun ‘10
Annual Jun ‘11
6 months to Dec ‘11
Where the money goes
2010-2011 (Expressed as a % of Total Expenditure) 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0%
Program Expenditure Annual Jun ‘10
Fundraising Accountabiltiy Costs and Administration Annual Jun ‘11
6 months to Dec ‘11
Program expenditure 6 months to 31 Dec 2011 Africa: 17%
Australia: 24%
Asia: 29%
Pacific: 30%
The deficit for the period was greater than planned due to: • Additional costs incurred in transitioning to a global strategy, which is working towards bringing
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Consolidated Statement of Comprehensive Income for the period ended 31 December 2011 Consolidated 6 months to 31 December 2011 $
12 months to 30 June 2011 $
Continuing Operations REVENUE Donations and gifts – monetary Donations and gifts – non-monetary Bequests and legacies
17,212,821 973,850 1,044,836
31,327,040 846,210
Grants —AusAID —other Australian —other overseas
8,856,465 4,100,276 3,308,954
23,171,379 9,413,500 5,914,641
1,901,767 184,431 387,520 37,970,920
2,976,676 684,980 297,238 74,631,664
17,955,524 3,274,521
36,163,809 4,145,314
Community Education
1,523,438
2,588,512
DOMESTIC AID AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS EXPENDITURE Domestic programs —Funds to domestic programs —Program support costs
5,601,489 616,731
14,325,179 1,358,514
Fundraising costs (International and Domestic) —Public – monetary —Public – non-monetary —Government, multilateral and private
5,908,285 973,850 393,516
13,304,941 929,980
Commercial activities (International and Domestic)
1,266,443
2,226,281
Accountability and Administration (International and Domestic) TOTAL EXPENDITURE
4,048,678 41,562,475
6,894,269 81,936,799
Excess of expenditure over revenue from continuing operations
(3,591,555)
(7,305,135)
Exchange differences on translation of foreign operations OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME FOR THE PERIOD
41,226 41,226
(341,937) (341,937)
TOTAL COMPREHENSIVE INCOME FOR THE PERIOD
(3,550,329)
(7,647,072)
Revenues from commercial activities Investment income Other income TOTAL REVENUE
Expenditure INTERNATIONAL AID AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS EXPENDITURE International programs —Funds to international programs —Program support costs
Other Comprehensive Income
During the fi nancial period, the entity had no transactions in relation to political or religious proselytisation programs. The accompanying notes form part of these fi nancial statements.
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Consolidated Statement of Financial Position as at 31 December 2011 Consolidated As at 31 December 2011 $
As at 30 June 2011 $
Assets Current assets Cash and cash equivalents Trade and other receivables Inventories Available for sale fi nancial assets Total current assets
28,283,711 10,835,917 77,225 436,839 39,633,692
37,789,627 3,164,961 94,127 41,048,715
78,662 4,025,430 4,104,092
78,662 4,210,316 4,288,978
43,737,784
45,337,693
8,261,569 411,154 30,703,294 39,376,017
8,843,212 508,136 28,074,471 37,425,819
526,265 526,265
526,043 526,043
39,902,282
37,951,862
3,835,502
7,385,831
Foreign Currency Translation Reserve Accumulated Surplus
(212,975) 4,048,477
(254,201) 7,640,032
TOTAL EQUITY
3,835,502
7,385,831
Non-current assets Other fi nancial assets Property, plant and equipment Total non-current assets TOTAL ASSETS
Liabilities Current Liabilities Trade and other payables Provisions Deferred income Total current liabilities Non-current liabilities Provisions Total non-current liabilities TOTAL LIABILITIES NET ASSETS
Equity
At the end of the fi nancial period, the entity had no balances in the following categories: other current fi nancial assets, investment property, intangibles, borrowings (current and non-current), current tax liabilities, non-current trade and other receivables and other fi nancial liabilities (current and non-current). The accompanying notes form part of these fi nancial statements.
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Consolidated Statement of Changes in Equity for the period ended 31 December 2011 Foreign Currency Translation reserve $ 87,736
Accumulated Surplus $ 14,945,167
Total equity $ 15,032,903
-
(7,305,135)
(7,305,135)
Other comprehensive income Movement in foreign currency translation reserve
(341,937)
-
(341,937)
Total comprehensive income for the year Balance at 30 June 2011
(341,937) (254,201)
(7,305,135) 7,640,032
(7,647,072) 7,385,831
-
(3,591,555)
(3,591,555)
41,226
-
41,226
41,226
(3,591,555)
(3,550,329)
(212,975)
4,048,477
3,835,502
Balance at 1 July 2010
Total comprehensive income for the year Shortfall for the year
Total comprehensive income for the period Shortfall for the period Other comprehensive income Movement in foreign currency translation reserve TOTAL COMPREHENSIVE INCOME FOR THE PERIOD BALANCE AT 31 DECEMBER 2011 The accompanying notes form part of these fi nancial statements.
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Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows for the period ended 31 December 2011 Consolidated 6 months to 31 December 2011 $
12 months to 30 June 2011 $
Cash flows from operating activities Cash received in the course of operations Cash paid in the course of operations Interest received Dividends and franking credits received Net cash (used) / provided in operating activities
39,191,801 (48,305,788) 184,431 (8,929,556)
77,426,318 (66,972,482) 624,473 36,485 11,114,794
(576,360) (576,360)
188,786 30,530 (1,196,848) (977,532)
-
-
Net (decrease)/increase in cash held
(9,505,916)
10,137,262
Cash at the beginning of the financial period
37,789,627
27,652,365
CASH AT THE END OF THE FINANCIAL PERIOD
28,283,711
37,789,627
Cash flows from investing activities Proceeds from sale of available-for-sale fi nancial asset Proceeds from sale of plant and equipment Payments for plant and equipment Net cash used in investing activities
Cash flows from financing activities Net cash (used)/provided in financing activities
The accompanying notes form part of these fi nancial statements.
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Table of Cash Movements for Designated Purposes for the period ended 31 December 2011
Overseas Program Appeals Australian Program Appeals Emergency Appeals Grants – Afghanistan – Uruzgan Health Education Program – AusAID Grants for Overseas Programs – Other Grants for Australian Programs Total for Other Purposes TOTAL
Cash available at the beginning of the fi nancial period 679,977 1,362,764 11,400,781 6,556,600
Cash raised during the fi nancial period
Cash disbursed during the fi nancial period
Cash available at the end of the fi nancial period
11,444,599 3,282,138 8,972,801 -
15,755,644 1,992,596 8,782,850 1,310,678
(3,631,068) 2,652,306 11,590,732 5,245,922
8,085,945 1,843,401 7,860,159
4,499,946 5,595,827 5,580,921
6,498,923 3,731,405 10,810,052
6,086,968 3,707,823 2,631,028
37,789,627
39,376,232
48,882,148
28,283,711
The Table of Cash Movements is prepared on a cash basis. The purpose of the Table of Cash Movements is to ensure the accountability of cash raised for designated purposes. The Table of Cash Movements is used to disclose the amount of cash that has been raised for a designated purpose, disbursed and remains unspent at the end of year. Cash raised refers to cash donations, government and other grants and any other income actually received during the year. Cash disbursed refers to expenditure actually paid out during the year.
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Notes to the Consolidated Summary Financial Report for the period ended 31 December 2011 1. Basis of Preparation of the Summary Financial ReportT
2. Ratios
The Summary Financial Report has been prepared in accordance with the requirements set out in the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) Code of Conduct. For further information on the Code, please refer to the ACFID Code of Conduct Guidance Document available at www.acfid.asn.au.
Administration ratio
The Summary Financial Report is an extract from the Save the Children Australia and Controlled Entities’ full fi nancial report for the period ended 31 December 2011. The fi nancial statements and specific disclosures included in the Summary Financial Report have been derived from the full fi nancial report. The Summary Financial Report does not and cannot be expected to provide as full an understanding of the fi nancial performance, fi nancial position and fi nancing and investing activities of Save the Children Australia and Controlled Entities as the full fi nancial report. A full description of the accounting policies adopted by Save the Children Australia and Controlled Entities may be found in the full financial report. The Summary Financial Report is presented in Australian dollars.
• Fundraising costs as a percentage of fundraising income, which excludes bequests, legacies and grants
A useful measure of the consolidated entity’s administrative efficiency is its administration cost ratio, which we aim to keep below 10%. The ratio expresses administration costs (including depreciation) as a percentage of total revenue. For the period ended 31 December 2011 the ratio was 10.7% (June 2011: 9.2%). This increase reflects both the investment made in developing the organisation’s capabilities for future growth and deferment of some grant income received which it is anticipated will be recognised in 2012. Fundraising cost ratio Another ratio often given attention is the fundraising cost ratio. There are different defi nitions of this ratio used throughout the not-for-profit sector. In order to assess the organisation’s performance accurately and to provide a comparison with other nongovernment organisations, the following two fundraising cost ratios have been used: • Fundraising costs as a percentage of total revenue The ratio in relation to total revenue in the period ended 31 December 2011 was 19.2% (June 2011: 19.1%).
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The ratio in relation to all funds raised in the period ended 31 December 2011 was 40.0% (June 2011: 45.4%). The meaningfulness of this ratio however, is affected by the range of fundraising activities. In Save the Children Australia’s case this range, and the associated cost rates, varies markedly between recruitment of donors into the Committed Giving program and special events. Fundraising activities are worth pursuing provided they generate a worthwhile surplus that can be devoted to achieving Save the Children Australia’s goal of improving the lives of children. It is therefore necessary to be cautious when comparing the fundraising cost ratio with the corresponding ratio of other charities that may have quite different ways of funding their activities and reporting their results.
Directors’ Declaration The directors of Save the Children Australia (‘Company’) declare that the Summary Financial Report comprising the statement of comprehensive income, statement of fi nancial position, statement of cash flows, statement of changes in equity and table of cash movements, as set out on pages 21 to 26, is in accordance with the requirements set out in the ACFID Code of Conduct and has been derived from and is consistent with the full fi nancial statements of the Company and its controlled entities (‘Consolidated Entity’) for the period ended 31 December 2011. The directors of the Company further declare that: (a) the full fi nancial statements and accompanying notes of the Consolidated Entity are in accordance with the Corporations Act 2001 and: (i) comply with Accounting Standards and the Corporations Regulations 2001, (ii) give a true and fair view of the fi nancial position of the Consolidated Entity as at 31 December 2011 and of the performance of the Consolidated Entity for the period ended on that date, and (iii) comply with the requirements set out in the ACFID Code of Conduct; (b) in the directors’ opinion there are reasonable grounds to believe the Company will be able to pay its debts as and when they become due and payable. This declaration is made in accordance with a resolution of the Board of Directors and is signed for and on behalf of the directors by:
Peter Watson Chairman
Melbourne 29 March 2012
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Independent Auditor’s Report
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Children in a remote village in Laos. Photo: Nabeel Khan/Save the Children Australia.
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