Strategic Framework

Vision 2020 Australia is working in partnership to prevent avoidable blindness and improve vision care. We represent over 60 members involved in: local and global eye care; health promotion; low vision support; vision rehabilitation; eye research; professional assistance and community support.

Our vision is the elimination of avoidable blindness and vision loss by the year 2020 and ensuring that blindness and vision impairment are no longer barriers to full participation in the community.

Our mission is to be the national advocate for member organisations. We work with stakeholders, in partnership, to eliminate the causes and remove the barriers of blindness and vision impairment in Australia and our region—focusing on core principles of collaboration, coordination, accessibility and equity.

Since its inception, Vision 2020 Australia has united the eye health and vision care sector and, in partnership with government, has made great progress towards the elimination of avoidable blindness and vision loss.

Vision 2020 Australia will continue to ensure that eye health and vision care remains high on the agenda of government—ensuring that Australia fulfils its commitments under the World Health Assembly Resolutions and Action Plan for the Prevention of Avoidable Blindness and Visual Impairment.

Eliminating avoidable blindness is one of the great moral challenges of our time and is attainable by 2020. With less than a decade remaining, it is vital that the successful work of Vision 2020 Australia continues over the next three years.

Strategic Plan

Evidence based research on the social, economic and personal impacts of vision loss underpin and inform the four strategic goals that have been identified to drive Vision 2020 Australia from 2011-2014. 

National goals are:

• Goal 1: To ensure eye disease prevention and early intervention is recognised as a health priority by the Australian Government

• Goal 2: To ensure low vision and rehabilitation is recognised as a priority by the Australian Government

• Goal 3: To ensure Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders have access to quality eye health and vision care services

Global goal is:

• Goal 4: To maximise Australia’s global contribution to the improvement of eye health and vision care in the developing world

With the cooperation and contribution of the whole sector, Vision 2020 Australia’s vision will be realised.