Girls of the Terena tribe performing a traditional dance.

Caption: Women's group leader Jupira Sobrinho and NZAID's Deb Collins join girls and young women from the Terena tribe in performing a traditional dance.

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Latin America

2008/2009 Allocation | $5.5 million

Snapshot

Latin America is a region of extreme inequality. Around 24.5 percent of people in the region survive on less than US$2 per day and 9.5 percent survive on less than US$1 per day. Poverty is particularly high amongst indigenous peoples and people living in rural areas.

NZAID priorities

The Latin America Development Programme (LADP) is guided by a five-year strategy (2004 - 2009). The overall goal of the LADP is to contribute to the elimination of poverty. More specifically, the LADP aims to foster good governance (in Brazil and the Southern Cone) and sustainable rural livelihoods in Central America (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua and Andean Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru). There is a particular focus on addressing poverty in rural areas and amongst indigenous peoples.

Sustainable rural livelihoods

With NZAID support, two multilateral agencies are working to improve livelihoods of poor farming communities in Andean Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador:

The International Potato Centre and partners are working to improve the capacity of Andean farmers to access local markets.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation and partners are working to improve food security through recovery of traditional Andean crops and produce.

In Nicaragua:

CARITAS Aotearoa Zealand and partner Asociación para la Diversificación y el Desarrollo Agrícola Comunal (ADDAC) are working to improve incomes and food security in the Municipality of Rancho Grande.
Christian World Service New Zealand and partner, Consejo de Iglesias Pro-Alianza Denominaciónal (CEPAD), are working to improve soil quality and food security, strengthen community decision-making and promote human rights in Nueva Guinea and Managua.
World Vision New Zealand and World Vision/Nicaragua are working to improve the livelihoods of people in communities in Larreynaga Province through sustainable agriculture and natural resource management systems.

Governance and leadership

NZAID is partnering with the Government of Argentina and the United Nations Development Programme in a three-year initiative to strengthen engagement between civil society and local government.

NZAID is supporting RIMISP (Centro Latinoamericano para el Desarrollo Rural, Chile) in a four-year initiative to enhance the governance and rural livelihoods strategies of development actors across Central America and the Andes.

Other activities

NZAID Development Scholarships: for Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay and Uruguay.
Short Term Training Awards: offer targeted training in New Zealand for people from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala and Peru.
Latin America Development Assistance Fund - Partnerships for Sustainable Development (LADAF-PSD): open to New Zealand organisations contributing to relevant development programmes or processes of in-country partners. A final application round will be held in August 2007.
Head of Mission Funds: managed by each of New Zealand's four embassies in Latin America for small discrete development projects.