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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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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