In the Media and Speaking Dates

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In the Media

Terence Wood from NZADDs was interviewed by Radio New Zealand International recently. You can access two short articles based on this interview here and here. And you can read an article based on the Minister of Foreign Affairs’ response here.

Speaking Dates

We now have dates and times for our NZADDs speaking tour in March.

Monday 21 March: 5-7pm at Auckland University. Topic: “Is Economic Development an Appropriate Focus for an Aid Agency?”

Wednesday 23 March from 1.00pm to 1.50pm at Otago University, Dunedin. Topic: “The Changing World of New Zealand Aid”

Friday 25 March from 12.30pm (we think) at Victoria University, Wellington. Topic: “Is Economic Development an Appropriate Focus for an Aid Agency?”

As soon as we have finalsed venues for these talks we will place more information on the website and send out an email update to the Info Group.

Commentary from NZADDs

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NZADDs was born out of a desire to stimulate more informed discussion regarding the how and why of NZ aid and development work. In particular, NZADDs emerged in response to the current changes in New Zealand’s government aid programme. We are concerned about these changes and so throughout 2011 NZADDs will focus predominantly on this area, even though our area of interest is aid and international development more broadly. Click here to read more