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Country

Programs

Australia The challenge

Country programs complement our global Our innovative partnerships across Australia are
efforts to improve long-term economic, designed to:
social and environmental sustainability • support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander %
peoples and organizations in their drive towards
at a national level in Australia, Canada, effective governance and self-determination; and 75
Chile and the United States. Our focus is on • aid the development of young people through
progressing key development priorities in initiatives related to early childhood, education in
countries where BHP’s presence provides science, technology, engineering and mathematics
(STEM) and mental health and well-being.
capacity and expertise to support our work.
Only seven per cent of higher education 75% of fast growth industry jobs 10% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
mathematics students, in Australia, are need STEM skills . students, in Australia, progress to university
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In Australia and Chile our portfolio girls – the lowest seen in 20 years . as compared to 46% non-Indigenous .
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of projects are well progressed. Chile
To address common challenges in Chile,
our focus is on:
• supporting the inclusion of more disadvantaged
and vulnerable young people in education and
strengthening their participation in society;
• enhancing the capability of institutions, 34m
organizations and groups to participate
in decision-making processes affecting
them; and
• enhancing the resilience of communities Nearly 34 million people across the Latin The entire planet could be supplied
in response to rapid socio-economic and America and Caribbean region still do not with energy using only 2% of the
environmental change. have access to reliable electricity, and their solar radiation existing on deserts .
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communities are often too isolated for
connection to the major grids .
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