If you’re interested in aid and development, then you’ll almost certainly be interested in the upcoming conference being held by Victoria University’s Institute of Policy Studies: Resilience in the Pacific (16 & 17 February 2011). The event isn’t being organised by NZADDs but John Overton from the NZADDs steering committee will be speaking at it. You can download a PDF of the programme for this event here.

Also, why not have a look around our resources page. It contains numerous interesting articles and references. A recent addition is a PDF of aid-relevant parliamentary questions asked in the New Zealand parliament over the last year. A careful read will give you a good idea of some current issues of concern with our aid programme. The link to the PDF is here.

NZADDs has a name – New Zealand Aid and Development Dialogues. Thank you to everyone who submitted names to the naming competition. And congratulations to Kristine who won.

NZADDs has a website (you’re looking at it)! We’re still developing some of it, so please bear with us. In the meantime we’re planning to use this page (the home page) to post updates on what we’re up to and also any other news of New Zealand aid and development related activities.

Help us! We’re interested in any news about New Zealand aid and development related activities. While we’re trying to keep an eye out for this sort of stuff, we’re bound to miss things from time to time. If you’re aware of anything (be it in a newspaper or something you’ve experienced on the ground)  we’re interested in knowing about it.