Australia has effectively boosted its foreign aid spending through a package designed to help Pacific countries through the coronavirus pandemic, but overall funding continues to fall.
The official aid budget has been reduced to $4 billion, down $44 million from last year.
The federal government has separately pledged $305 million to help its neighbours respond to coronavirus.
"It will help address the economic and social costs of the pandemic in the Pacific and Timor-Leste, helping to underpin our region's stability and economic recovery," Foreign Minister Marise Payne said.
Aid organisations have welcomed the one-off cash injection, but are concerned about overall funding cuts.
Marc Purcell from the Australian Council for International Development said the coronavirus crisis had put hard-won gains at risk.
"Australia's recovery is linked to the regions, and Asia needs to know that we are with them," he said.
"We are deeply disappointed by the declines in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Pakistan, as well as reductions in some global humanitarian partnerships and disability programs."
Spending on foreign aid has fallen to 0.6 per cent of the federal budget and an even smaller share of national income.
Other organisations including Save the Children and Oxfam said the coronavirus package fell far short of what was needed to respond to the global pandemic, arguing the crisis demanded a permanent increase in aid.
"This temporary and targeted fund doesn't come close to contributing our fair share to the global response as one of the world's wealthiest nations," Oxfam chief executive Lyn Morgain said.
"And it explicitly ignores the massive and urgent need that has been further exacerbated by this crisis in countries outside our region, such as Yemen."
