Development News

OIA Responses 3-6-12

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Over the last year NZADDs has requested via the OIA information on a number of areas of aid policy. Often responses to these requests have been timely yet at other times there has been considerable delay in the government disseminating information.

Here are copies of 4 responses we have received recently:

Reply to OIA inquiring after the use of aid money for agri-diplomacy (link).

Reply to OIA requesting information on how the government is calculating value for money in aid work (link).

Reply to OIA on how the government determined the areas of NZ’s ‘comparative advantage’ that aid would focus on (link).

Reply to OIA on changes in staff turnover in the aid programme in recent years (link).

A Bolt from the Blue: NZADDs Speaking Tour

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Between 20 and 22 March Jo Spratt will give talks in Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland on her NZADDs Working Paper ‘A Bolt from the Blue’.

This Working Paper examines the 2009 ‘review’ of NZAID and the reasons offered for the 2009 changes to the NZ government aid programme. The Working Paper concludes that there was no review and that the real reason for change was to shape government aid policy that assists New Zealand to do well at the same time as doing good. Jo will talk about this and raise questions about what this means for New Zealand aid today.

[Update: you can now download the full working paper from here, and download summary report from here).]

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