RESULTS achievements in 2010

RESULTS International (Australia) had an extremely successful year tackling poverty in 2010. It not only brought about monumental changes in our world, and our country, but also to our great organisation, RESULTS.

Our list of results in the fight to end poverty is quite impressive and can also be used as a great reference for discussion when talking about RESULTS to people who have not heard about what we do.

Below is a list of just some of RESULTS' achievements in 2010:

Organisational: 

• Moved into our first office for over 15 years in Sydney 
• Gold sponsor VMAC contributed a generous $10,000
• New coporate sponsor Eli Lilly contributed a grateful $6,000
• Secured grant funding from RESULTS US for 2 major projects: RESULTS' UN Workshop and ongoing research for Education for All Campaign 
• Created a new brochure, newsletter, stationary, conference banners, website and social media sites 
• Largest RESULTS fundraising effort occurred in Hobart, Tasmania
• Sen. Bob McMullan (Ret.) awarded the 2010 RESULTS Leadership Award
• Updated RESULTS' Constitution
• Changed our official name from RESULTS Australia to RESULTS International (Australia)

Grassroots: 

• 3 new RESULTS Groups in Launceston, Burnie, Brisbane, and a restart in Sydney City 
• Group training (Mackay & Sydney)
• RESULTS membership growth; 76 members, up from 35 in June (including 3 new Life Members by the end of 2010) 
• 2010 RESULTS National Conference with international guest speakers held in Melbourne
• Successful parliamentary visits in Canberra in March 2010; which included
  8 RESULTS delegates
• 13 strong RESULTS delegation at UN Global Health conference in Melbourne in August, which included a groundbreaking workshop on women and tuberculosis 
• 42 letters-to-the-editor and online comments published 
• 3 newspaper articles, 3 radio interviews and 1 current affairs piece aired on television
• 4 media releases prepared and circulated
• Around 200 letters written to various MPs around Australia
• A further 25 MP visits were conducted 
• Co-signed letters (with ACFID) on Australia's contribution to The Global Fund sent to
  Kevin Rudd
• Provided input to ACFID's pre-budget submission and aid review 
• Met with Australian Executive of the World Bank, Jim Hagan, in Washington D.C. 
• 2 RESULTS delegates sponsored to annual ACTION meetings in the United Kingdom

Campaigns: 

• Helped see an increase in microfinance funding in 2010-11 to $21 million (in 2009-10 figure was $16.5 million)
• Pushed for AusAID's first microfinance strategy, which was released in March
• Advocated for the finalisation of the Debt2Health Agreement with Indonesia, which will see $37 million go towards tuberculosis inoculation programs 
• Contributed to the partial success in Australia's contribution to The Global Fund (Australia's contribution of $210 million represented a 55 per cent increase since its last donation) 
• Submitted a bilateral TB proposal, that will see $55 million committed over 5 years, for a roll-out of new state-of-the-art TB-diagnostic tool in Indonesia
• Assisted with UNESCO's Education for All Campaign:
  - Contributed to research on the opportunities for basic education for all children, youth and adults covering the Asia-Pacific region
  - Invited to participate in an Australian Coalition

Parliament: 

• In March, saw a RESULTS influenced speech in parliament on World TB Day (Sen. Clare Moore) 
• Made a motion on The Global Fund in November 2010

RESULTS has many new projects in the pipeline for 2011, including a lobbying trip to Canberra in March. RESULTS will also publish its latest research report on education in the first half of the year, as well as set up new groups across the country, beginning with a new group in Canberra on Saturday, February 26 (in 3 weeks).


There'll also be plenty of grassroots action on tuberculosis, children's health, microfinance and more.