Annual Review

Annual Review | 2007 - 2008

The Annual Review provides an overview of the work

NZAID has done during the year between 1 July 2007

and 30 June 2008.

Full review

NZAID Annual Review 2007-2008 | full (4.34mb)

Annual Review | by chapter

Introduction
From the Executive Director
Pacific overview
Scholarships
Asia overview
Other Global programmes
Humanitarian
Support for International Agencies
Support for New Zealand Agencies
A focus on results
Annual Review | previous years

Introduction | PDF (4.53mb)

NZAID provides policy advice on international development issues and manages the Government's aid programme. In 2007/08, NZAID's development programme budget was $412.65 million. More than half of the expenditure was directed to the Pacific. Assistance was also given to Asia, which has the largest proportion of the world's poor and targeted aid was provided to Africa and Latin America.

NZAID also supported the work of New Zealand and overseas Non-Government Organisations (NGOs), and regional and international organisations.

From the Executive Director | PDF (752kb)

NZAID year has seen poverty and development remain prominent global issues. Conflict, natural disasters and sharply increasing global prices for oil and food have the greatest impact on those who are most vulnerable. Media coverage has shown the devasting effect of these events on those living in extreme poverty, and public awareness is high.

Pacific Overview | PDF (2mb)

NZAID has a core focus on the Pacific, and uses long-standing relationships and knowledge to work with Pacific partners committed to tackling development challenges in our region. In the review year, NZAID continues to scale up its engagement and work in the Pacific region.

In 2007/08, NZAID provided assistance to the Pacific of $179.66 million, an increase of $17.23 million over the previous financial year. The focus for increased attention and engagement are the three Melanesian countries of Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. NZAID completed a new 10-year $300 million programme strategy with Papua New Guinea. Support to education and economic development continued to scale up in both the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu.
NZAID also increased its efforts to support Pacific regionalism. Total assistance to Pacific regional agencies also continued to increase in line with priorities agreed via the respective governing councils and the Pacific Plan. A new consolidated regional growth programme was established (combining support for trade, fisheries, financial institutions and other sectoral support) and implementation also continued on significantly enhancing NZAID's work on regional health and environment/vulnerability issues.

Scholarships | PDF (832kb)

Education is an essential foundation for sustainable development. By providing people with knowledge, skills and qualifications, NZAID aims to strengthen the ability of developing countries to overcome poverty, develop leadership and provide technical, analytical and strategic capability.

Asia Overview | PDF (980kb)

NZAID's Asia Strategy guides a series of relationships and engagements in Southeast Asia, the agency's major geographic focus outside the Pacific. The Asia strategy focuses on sustainable rural livelihoods in the region, including a strong emphasis on trade and development and human resource development.
Programmes in Southeast Asia are closely aligned to partner governments' priorities and delivered through direct support to government agencies and multilateral organisations. Close to $50 million is targeted to six bilateral partners and linked regional programmes.

Other Global Programmes | PDF (1.05mb)

Latin America Regional | The Latin America development programme is guided by a strategy that started in 2003/04 and was recently extended until 2010. The programme aims to foster good governance in Brazil and the Southern Cone, and sustainable rural livelihoods in Central America and the Andes: El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Andean Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru. There is a particular focus on addressing poverty in rural areas and amongst indigenous peoples.

Africa Regional | The NZAID Africa Strategy 2008–2017 is designed to contribute to the overarching goal of eliminating poverty in Africa. A key component of the strategy is a partnership programme focused on health and associated livelihoods in Zambia and Zimbabwe. The South Africa relationship has shifted to one of mutual benefit based on people-to-people and government-to-government contact and exchange. These programmes are complemented by wider contributions to multilateral agencies, scholarships for African students, provision of humanitarian assistance and NZAID funding schemes for New Zealand-based NGOs, some of whom work with African partner organisations.

Humanitarian | PDF (1.07mb)

NZAID's first priority in humanitarian crises is to save lives, reduce suffering and maintain human dignity during and in the aftermath of the emergency. Crises can arise from natural disasters or factors such as conflict and collapse of governmental systems. NZAID follows a number of principles when taking humanitarian action.
These include following international humanitarian law and international human rights conventions, ensuring that it assists longer-term development opportunities, ensuring that assistance is fair and equitable and, where appropriate, working with the local government and partners to make sure that decisions are reached in a participatory way, strengthening local capacity and ownership, and monitoring how effective the action is in order to improve future actions.

Support for International Agencies | PDF (1.20mb)

New Zealand suport for international development agencies, including UN agencies and financial institutions such as the ADB and the World Bank, is delivered under NZAID’s multilateral programme. NZAID’s support to international agencies is guided by the NZAID Multilateral Engagement Strategy which concentrates resources toward 10 top international agencies. Engagement with these partners is aimed at achieving a more effective multilateral system at country level and ensuring that the agencies are well governed. During 2007/08 New Zealand advocated for gender issues to be integrated and promoted through partner agencies’ programmes and for improved engagement with civil society Core funding assistance is supplied to 25 prioritised agencies. Other support is directed through country and regional programmes.

Support for New Zealand Agencies | PDF (816kb)

Civil society organisations play a crucial role in sustainable development and addressing humanitarian needs worldwide. NZAID provides support to the work carried out by New Zealand NGOs with their partners overseas through two major programmes - the Humanitarian Action Fund and Kaihono hei Oranga Hapori o te Ao/Partnerships for International Community Development (KOHA-PICD).

NZAID also provides core funding for the Council for International Development (CID, the umbrella body for New Zealand development NGOs), Volunteer Service Abroad, the Development Resource Centre and Trade Aid. These relationships are underpinned by the strategy policy framework for relations between NZAID and New Zealand NGOs.

A Focus on Results | PDF (768kb)

NZAID is committed to ensuring the effectiveness of its aid. In 2005, New Zealand joined other donors and developing countries in committing to significant changes to the way aid is managed. These commitments are described in the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. They involve promoting partner country ownership by supporting countries to exercise leadership over their development policies and plans. They require donors to align their support to developing countries’ policies, strategies and systems and to coordinate their activities in order to minimise the cost of delivering aid. The Paris Declaration also commits donors and developing countries to giving focus to efforts to monitor the development impact of activities and promotes mutual accountability for such results. Putting these principles into practice requires a shift in some of the ways aid is managed. This includes working more closely with other donors or even in some cases managing programmes for each other. For example, New Zealand administers the Australian aid programme to the Cook Islands on its behalf. It also involves some shifting away from project aid towards funding the implementation of long-term sectoral strategies. The benefits of these approaches are a better fit of NZAID’s efforts to the priorities and needs of partners, and a strengthening of their capacity to manage their own development processes. An evaluation in 2007 found that NZAID is playing a leadership role in promoting harmonisation and programme-based approaches. The intention of these aid effectiveness principles is to create more sustainable results.

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