New Zealand Embassy Manila, The Philippines
Development cooperation
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade manages the New Zealand Aid Programme and provides policy advice to the New Zealand Government on international development issues.
The New Zealand Aid Programme’s mission is to support sustainable development in developing countries in order to reduce poverty and to contribute to a more secure, equitable, and prosperous world. Over time this approach will allow developing countries to fund their own social services (for example health and education services) and further development activities.
New Zealand's development assistance is focused on the Pacific region, but also supports programmes in Asia, southern Africa and Latin America. New Zealand also works with multilateral agencies to address poverty, conflict, governance issues, and humanitarian crises worldwide.
New Zealand is committed to providing effective aid, as agreed by the international community. This includes support for the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and the Accra Agenda for Action
For more information visit the New Zealand Aid Programme website
New Zealand’s aid to the Philippines
New Zealand Aid Programme activities in the Philippines are based on the overall aid programme mandate and the specific development challenges in the Philippines. New Zealand’s development support for the Philippines for 2010/11 is NZ$4.3 million.
New Zealand’s aid activities in the Philippines are guided by New Zealand’s international development policy statement. There is a particular focus on complementing ASEAN’s community-building goals through the agreed flagship areas of scholarships, agriculture, disaster risk management, and fostering young business leaders.
Current projects are:
1. Integrating disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation (UNDP) funds 30 additional Philippine provinces to integrate disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation into their local development planning and decision-making processes, by undertaking the necessary vulnerability and adaptation assessments and the production of multi hazard/risk maps.
2. Restoring agricultural livelihoods in conflict-affected areas (FAO) supports the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in restoring agricultural-based livelihoods of internally-displaced people in Maguindanao province who have returned to their original farms, and to make them less dependent on external food aid.
3. Camiguin coastal resource management project — aims to enable local government units to establish integrated coastal resource management systems with local communities’ participation and involvement.
4. New Zealand-ASEAN Scholars awards a regional scholarships initiative providing post-graduate awards for courses of study relevant to agreed sector interests.
5. Natural resources management through enterprise development (FAO) — involves capacity building, community enterprise development, guidebook development and policy review and formulation.
6. Contribution to the child-friendly movement in Mountain Province (United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF) — aims to establish and monitor child-friendly neighbourhoods, schools, health facilities and communities in Mountain Province.
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