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Welcome to NZADDs. We’re an independent group of academics and practitioners working together to promote dialogue and critical thinking about New Zealand’s role in international development.

Be it through aid, trade, immigration, or environmental policy (to name just a few), decisions made in New Zealand have real impacts on the the lives of people living in poverty in other countries. If we as a country want to help reduce global poverty and tackle global issues we need considered, well-intentioned policy and practice. NZADDs is committed to promoting this.

You can read more about NZADDs on our about page. For contact information see our contact page. Keep scrolling down to read our most recent updates on New Zealand Development Policy.

New Transparency for New Zealand aid

terence

Hi and welcome to an NZADDs update,

Transparency should be central to aid: it’s our money being spent, and unless donors are transparent, we have no way of knowing how it’s being used.

As I’ve pointed out in the past, New Zealand’s government aid programme has had something of a transparency problem. Even finding out basics, like how much we plan to spend next year, has involved pulling apart Treasury spreadsheets and interrogating uncooperative PDFs. The problem was so bad that the OECD raised it in their last review of New Zealand aid.

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