Over the past six years the New Zealand Aid Programme has made renewable energy a key focus of its work. Renewable energy is described in the aid program’s Strategic Plan 2012-2015 as an ‘ena...
https://devpolicy.org/some-questions-about-nz-aids-renewable-energy-program-20140915/
In 2013 Oxfam New Zealand produced a research report on sustainable development in the Pacific and the role of the New Zealand private sector. This report was intended to fill a research gap on t...
Perhaps because the problems it is trying to resolve are so big, while its progress is so mixed, aid work is like intellectual flypaper, exerting an irresistible pull on Big Ideas. Solutions born...
The first entry of this series of blogs on New Zealand aid read from an ODI report : “By 2025 global poverty will be concentrated in fragile, low-income states.” That could have been more pre...
https://devpolicy.org/nz-aid-africa-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1-20140711/
Around the world, girls and women face huge challenges, only for the fact of their sex: from getting health services, education, and jobs, to owning property. Unfair legislation, policy and cultu...
https://devpolicy.org/new-zealand-aid-needs-more-gender-mainstreaming-20140703/
New Zealand’s Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) migration scheme has been labelled as ‘best practice’ by the International Labour Organisation and the World Bank. Recent evaluations of the...
https://devpolicy.org/nz-rse-time-to-think-carefully-about-sending-communities-20140624/
If you want, there is a glass half full way of looking at the last six years of New Zealand aid giving. Sure, aid has ceased to rise as a share of GNI, sure NGO funding has been broken, sure serv...
https://devpolicy.org/a-glass-half-full-for-new-zealand-aid-20140610/
As 2015 approaches, and the end of the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) era draws near, discussions are well underway to shape a post-2015 international development agenda. Within these discussi...
https://devpolicy.org/the-new-zealand-aid-programme-and-policy-coherence-for-development-20140603/
Over the coming weeks, NZADDs will bring you a series of blog posts about New Zealand aid and development. This year brings important events for New Zealand aid and development: the general elec...
https://devpolicy.org/introducing-a-blog-series-on-nz-aid-and-development-20140529/