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Trade: Pacific Trades Employment Initiative This activity is to design a five year, trades employment initiative which aims to support trades workers from Pacific Island Countries to access income earning and up-skilling opportunities in the Canterbury rebuild, while also addressing a domestic labour shortage for New Zealand.
Pacific Regional Sexual and Reproductive Health Initiative This initiative will provide needed equipment and commodities, build collaborative partnerships, and engage with communities and Pacific youth through innovative sexual and reproductive health programming in Kiribati, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, and Vanuatu.
PF Design Cost Contributions-  PF 6 & 7 MFAT's contribution to design costs for successful Partnerships Fund applications which have been approved to proceed to the design phase, and which meet MFAT's quality standards.
Aotearoa New Zealand Evaluation Association Sponsorship for Pacific-based Participants This Activity supports the sponsorship of four Pacific-based evaluators (based in PNG, Vanuatu and Fiji) to attend the ANZEA 2022 Conference in Wellington, New Zealand. Sponsorship includes support for flights, accommodation and conference attendance.
Supporting Pacific Partner Anti-Corruption Commitments through UNODC and Transparency International This activity supports the work of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Transparency International (TI) in the Pacific. UNODC will support countries to meet their commitments to the Teieniwa Vision and UN Convention against Corruption while TI's anti-corruption programme is to promote and empower civil society and citizen engagement in reducing corruption.
Pacific Digital Economy Programme This Activity aims to develop inclusive digital economy ecosystems in the Pacific that allow rural communities, micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, youth, seasonal workers, and women to enhance market participation.
The Activity delivers research, capacity building activities and technical assistance in Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, Kiribati, Federated States of Micronesia and Marshall Islands, and will expand to the Cook Islands.
Management of Short term Training Awards New Zealand Short Term Training Scholarships (NZSTTS) scholars are placed and provided with on-award management and support in order that they successfully complete training in New Zealand, gaining new skills that can be utilised in the development of their home countries.
Off-shore or blended training may be developed to respond to border restrictions unanticipated when this Activity was created.
English Language Training for Officials Asia - Intake 57 - Education This Activity aims to develop the English language capabilities of Officials from Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Viet Nam and Timor-Leste. It is themed around Education and consists of preparation in-country, followed by a 13 week programme in New Zealand to cement language skills and relationships.
Pacific (Rugby) Remittance Opportunities Programme The Activity supports talented Pacific rugby players and their families to maximise the opportunity of sports related labour mobility and remittances through facilitating financial literacy and management education for players and families, and contracting support to help negotiate contracts.
As of 2019/2020 FY, the development of an in-depth evaluation will also be undertaken, the evaluation will address the development impact and effectiveness, and value for money of the PROP pilot Activity.
2019 - 2020 Rohingya Crisis Response Humanitarian support to the Rohingya crisis and humanitarian situation in Myanmar and Bangladesh.
Pacific 2024 Public Health Management Short Course This Activity seeks to deliver a Public Health Management course, to cohorts of up to 30 scholars from Pacific partner countries.
This course was piloted for the Pacific via online learning in 2021 and 2022 while the New Zealand borders were closed. It has since been adapted for in-person delivery.
Negotiated Partnerships: Design and due diligence Contracting external specialised expertise to assist MFAT in developing the design of the Negotiated Partnerships mechanism for New Zealand-registered NGOs, as well as tools, due diligence, monitoring and evaluation, in order to improve performance and impact of the mechanism.
CANZ Negotiated Partnership Programme, including Design and Implementation A Negotiated Partnership between Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand (CANZ) and MFAT to support  a multi-year, multi-country programme in the Pacific and South East Asia.
Pacific Multisector Response to Non-Communicable Diseases This activity seeks to improve multi-sectoral responses to Non-Communicable Diseases in Pacific Island Countries and Territories through the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) Public Health Directorate. SPC will provide regulatory, legislative and policy technical support to countries to enact multi-sectoral action that will contribute to arresting the Non-Communicable Diseases crisis in the Pacific region.
Asian Mega Deltas initiative Recent data reveals that the Asian Mega Deltas are likely to be hit by serious impacts of climate change, including more frequent &amp; intense floods, salinization, water shortages &amp; climate extremes that will slow down economic growth, erode food security, and trigger new poverty traps &amp; emerging hotspots of hunger.
The initiative builds science and digital capability and leverages public and private sector finance to help Asian Mega Deltas countries implement food system climate change solutions.
Africa, Latin America and Caribbean Trade Policy Course - Short Term Training Scholarship This Activity seeks to deliver a Trade Policy short course, to cohorts of up to 30 scholars from English speaking-partners in the Africa, Latin America and Caribbean regions.
This module was piloted with Pacific and ASEAN scholars in 2021 and 2022 and have been adapted for each of the three regions to reflect local development priorities.
Resourcing support for delivery of Industry and Innovation 2024 - 2027 Resourcing support for delivery of Agriculture, Digital Technology, Private Sector Development and Tourism under MFAT's International Development Cooperation.
Pacific Pathways for Youth Equity: Empower, Engage and Employ The population of youth who are not in education, employment or training (youth NEET) is significant in the Pacific and many Pacific Island countries have youth NEET rates greater than the global average. This Activity addresses the situation of Pacific youth NEET who remain excluded from mainstream development efforts. The Activity will supplement conventional approaches in the formal education system by providing alternative pathways to decent work or meaningful engagement in society.
Polynesian Health Corridors Pandemic Preparedness & Response The Pandemic Preparedness and Response Workstream of the Polynesian Health Corridors Programme, delivered by Manatū Hauora   Ministry of Health, works with Polynesian countries' Ministries of Health to support their readiness and response to COVID-19 and future pandemic threats, including through intensive wrap-around support to roll out COVID-19 vaccines. Support is provided in response to partner countries' requests and based on a joint assessment of needs and how best to meet those needs.
Pacific 2024 Diplomatic Training Short Course This Activity seeks to deliver introductory level diplomatic training to cohorts of up to 30 scholars consisting new recruits or junior-level staff from Pacific Foreign Ministries or related agencies. Training modules include:
<ul>  <li>Introduction to international diplomacy, tradecraft, protocol, and consular services</li>  <li>Trade policy, bilateral trade agreements</li>  <li>Pacific regional architecture </li>  <li>Climate change and natural resource diplomacy</li>  <li>among other important topics related to international diplomacy.</li> </ul>
Resourcing support for delivery of Infrastructure, Energy and Transport Resourcing support for delivery of Infrastructure, Energy and Transport activities under MFATs International Development Cooperation
2021 Global Famine Mitigation Response Unearmarked contributions to World Food Programme to help mitigate and prevent famine globally.
Agriculture: Ministry of Primary Industries Pacific Trade Facilitation Adviser An activity-level Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) and MFAT with the high level aim of facilitating trade from the Pacific to New Zealand while at the same time enhancing Pacific regional biosecurity. This MoU includes a new position for a Trade Facilitation Adviser.
Strengthening development effectiveness This enables membership funding to be used in support of the Programme of Work and Budget of the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) and voluntary membership to the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC). IATI membership facilitates supporting developing countries to improve transparency and supporting an international commitment to strengthen aid transparency. DAC membership allows us to co-operate and contribute to implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Private Sector Development: Pacific Financial Inclusion Initiative The Pacific Financial Inclusion Programme (PFIP) is a regional initiative aiming to achieve greater financial inclusion in one of the least banked regions in the world. Phase Two of PFIP builds on the achievements and lessons learned from Phase One while responding to current and emerging challenges.
Private Sector Development: Business Link Pacific Phase II BLP Phase II supports Pacific small to medium enterprise (SME) development by facilitating access to quality, affordable and local business advice and finance.
BLP II aims to build on the achievements of Phase I with an enhanced focus on climate resilience and economic inclusion of vulnerable groups such as women, youth, rural and indigenous businesses.
Funding Support: Support Development Research:Field Research Awards The Field Research Awards provide grant funding to postgraduate students studying in New Zealand institutions on development issues of relevance to the New Zealand Aid Programme. The purpose of these awards is to foster capacity of future New Zealand development professionals.
Pacific Financial Technical Assistance Centre - Phase VI A contribution of NZ$6m to the International Monetary Fund’s Pacific Financial Technical Assistance Centre, to deliver technical assistance to Pacific countries on public financial management reform, revenue policy and administration, macroeconomic statistics, and financial sector supervision.
Climate Finance for Community Resilience - Design, Due Diligence, and Evaluation This Activity is to support the design of the <em>Climate Finance for Community Resilience Programme</em>, including processes, related tools, appraisal, due diligence, monitoring and evaluation.
Cyber Security Support to the Pacific The Cyber Security Support to the Pacific (CSSP) activity supports Pacific governments in the following areas: national cyber strategy development, security of infrastructure and data, cybersafety for citizens and businesses, and support to develop robust cybercrime legislation.
The CSSP programme is NZ$10 million, comprised of the <em>Cyber Security Support to the Pacific Activity</em> (ACT-0101148) and the <em>Computer Emergency Response Team New Zealand (CERT NZ) Support to Pacific Activity</em> (ACT-0100498).
Market Development Facility (MDF) Market Development Facility promotes higher incomes through a market systems approach; connecting individuals, businesses, governments and NGOs with each other, and with markets at home and abroad.
Market interventions are delivered in sectors such as high value agriculture, niche tourism, urban industries, aquaculture and livestock management.
MDF Pacific Expansion operates in Samoa, Tonga and Vanuatu.
Climate Finance for Community Resilience: Save the Children New Zealand In this Activity, Save the Children will enhance resilience and adaptation to the impacts of climate change for rural communities in Solomon Islands and Cambodia. Communities will understand their vulnerability to climate change, strengthen their capacity to adapt, and be supported to develop and implement inclusive community-led adaptation plans. Women will be trained and supported to practice climate-smart agriculture to improve their food security and livelihoods prioritising gender equality.
Pacific Parliamentary Strengthening Phase II This activity will support parliamentary strengthening in the Pacific region through delivering a package of technical assistance and support to Pacific parliaments.
Climate Change Programme - Ecosystems Resilience This activity aims to support Pacific countries to maintain and restore ecosystem services for food security, coastal protection and disaster risk reduction, to support climate change adaptation.
NZ - Young Enterprise Scheme Award The Young Enterprise Scheme (YES) links real world learning with the academic understanding of business concepts by providing teaching resources, a managed risk environment and a support structure, including connections to business mentors. Students come up with a business idea, form a company, prepare a business plan, make and market a product or service, prepare an annual report, distribute their profit and have the option of completing qualification pathways.
Climate Change Programme - Climate Information for Decision Making This Activity aims to support the incorporation of climate change information into all forms of government decision-making and planning. Working with and supporting  key regional agencies, we will assist in developing a range of activities that will bring together existing datasets and systems to support a connected and usable platform of climate data, hazard and risk analysis to aid decision-making.
Scholarships Management: post-scholarship To cover activities that relate to management, delivery and engagement of Scholars once their scholarship has finished.
Pacific Aviation Security (A13031) This activity will provide security equipment (such as airport x-ray machines), technical assistance and capacity building to support the nine small Pacific Island Countries who have adopted New Zealand aviation rules.
ASEAN 2024 Food and Agribusiness Value Chains Short Course This activity is a professional development programme (short course), which improves agricultural productivity and income in the ASEAN and Timor-Leste agricultural sector.
The course will equip scholars with the concepts, principles, and tools they need to leverage value chain approaches to enhance agri-food systems.
COVID-19 Health systems Preparedness and Response– Testing and therapeutics Pacific Island Countries are supported by Aotearoa New Zealand to have access of supplies of Rapid Antigen Tests and accompanying technical support to screen for COVID-19.
The Cook Islands, Niue and Tokelau have access to COVID-19 antivirals (therapeutics) from Aotearoa New Zealand’s domestic supply, subject to availability and other Pacific Island countries are supported with access to COVID-19 therapeutics and accompanying technical support by the World Health Organisation.
English Language Training for Officials: Good Governance: Intake 55 This Activity aims to develop the English language capabilities of Officials from Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Viet Nam and Timor-Leste. It is themed around Good Governance and consists of preparation in-country, followed by a 13 week programme in New Zealand to cement language skills and relationships.
Agriculture Development Strategic Evaluation With changes in the political and operating environment, the Agriculture Development Programme is refreshing its strategic direction; this work will be key products to inform this change to ensure we continue to support sustainable agriculture in the Pacific.
Pacific Private Sector Projects Fund This fund has been set up to enable us to test innovative approaches to private sector engagement for development. Through this fund we will collaborate and/or partner with private sector organisations in New Zealand and the Pacific to enhance trade, enable import substitution, and catalyse innovations in business that will have significant impacts on economic development in the Pacific.
Fisheries: Pacific Training Programme A five year fisheries training programme to enhance private and public sector skills of Pacific Island men and women.
English Language Training for Officials: International Security Trends (Intake 54) This Activity aims to develop the English language capabilities of Officials from Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Viet Nam and Timor-Leste. It is themed around International Security Trends and combines a 13 week online programme, a workplace project, and a 3 week symposium in New Zealand to cement language skills and relationships.
Regional: Partnership for Pacific Policing This programme aims to build on an interim phase of support provided by New Zealand Police to strengthen the police services of seven Pacific Island countries (Cook Islands, Kiribati, Niue, Samoa, Tokelau, Tuvalu and Vanuatu). It comprises three components: management and organisation; partnerships and communication; and policing and capability. Activities under these components will contribute to strengthening the management, technical and operational capability of these Pacific police services
Global Enterprise Experience Programme upgrades 2023 The fund is administered through the Manaaki New Zealand Scholarships Programme for the purpose of funding 10 selected alumni enrolled in the 2023 Global Enterprise Experience (GEE) to upgrade to the Plus programme via the Scholar and Alumni Event Fund (SAEF).
Empowering Women to Strengthen Community Resilience to Water Scarcity in Pacific Atoll countries Initially funding a pilot study in supporting women to be informed and capable for operating the solar sill distillations that provides community water supply.
Future funding will extend the programme to other Pacific Island nations and develop resilience in community level water supply.
Pacific Sporting Partnerships- Sport for Health This activity seeks to increase children’s participation in sports and encourage children to lead active lives in order to reduce the prevalence of overweight and obesity. The activity focuses initially on children in Cook Islands, Fiji, Samoa and Tonga.
4 Year Plan Development Results and Lessons Synthesis This activity will provide the Pacific and Development Group with a synthesis of key results and lessons for each 4 Year Plan and thematic areas, drawn from Activity Monitoring and Completion Assessments, as well as Activity Evaluations.
Pacific Sexual Reproductive Health & Rights 2023 - 2027 This Activity will  support a scaled up multi-country investment in sexual and reproductive health and rights in the Pacific. It will improve health outcomes through Pacific peoples’ full realisation of their sexual and reproductive health and rights. The Activity will work through both public and private sector channels.
Public Private Partnerships To explore the feasibility of using Public Private Partnerships within the broader context of private sector engagement and identify options to use aid as a catalyst for private sector investment
ADB Pacific Private Sector Development Initiative Phase III Asian Development Bank's Pacific Private Sector Development Initiative Phase III is a six-year rapid response technical assistance initiative that promotes private investment, improved access to finance, increased numbers of businesses, reduces the costs of doing business, and encourages competition and private sector participation in markets dominated by state owned enterprises. NZ is contributing up to USD 4.5 million to this Initiative.
Green Climate Fund IRM The Green Climate Fund has been created as an operating entity of the financial mechanism of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to support activities that help developing countries reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to the impacts of climate change.
ASEAN 2023 Renewable Energy Short Course The course will provide 32 participants with the required base knowledge to successfully project manage new renewable energy capacity developments in their home country. It is an intensive course for engineers and managers (from both state-owned enterprises and energy development companies) from Cambodia, Lao PDR, Viet Nam, Philippines, Indonesia and Timor-Leste to upskill for future Renewable Energy development projects, such as Solar, Wind, Biofuel, Geothermal or Hydro projects.
Pacific Regional - Enhancing Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Risk Reduction Strategies Working with a consortium of seven New Zealand-based non-governmental organisations and their in-country partners to undertake disaster response simulations, provide further training and develop disaster response plans.
Policy Coherence Development Research To identify opportunities to improve coherence of cross-agency work to achieve development objectives
Effective cross-cutting issues To identify opportunities to strengthen development outcomes through more effective integration of cross-cutting issues in the New Zealand Aid Programme.
Pacific Energy Initiatives (private sector and design work) New Zealand will provide support to enable between two and four private sector energy investment opportunities to proceed to implementation in at least two Pacific countries or territories.
NP: World Vision New Zealand (WVNZ) Implementation Negotiated Partnership between World Vision New Zealand (WVNZ) and MFAT to fund a multi-year, multi-country child/youth-focused programme in the Pacific and South East Asia.
Pacific Trade and Invest Partnership The Activity will provide support to the Auckland office of Pacific Islands Trade and Invest (PT and I), who works with exporters from the Pacific Islands to promote their products and services as well as attract investment to the Pacific Island businesses.
Serbia and Balkans flooding emergency appeal. This Activity responds to an emergency appeal for funding in response to catastrophic flooding in the Balkans on 13-16 May 2014. This flooding was the most significant natural disaster in the region for around 120 years, killing at least 53 people and affecting millions more.
2024 Ukraine Regional Refugee Response 2024 humanitarian contributions to support the Ukraine Regional Refugee Response.
Pacific Response to Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle CRB Support to the Pacific region in response to the invasion of a new strain of Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle that threatens economic resilience and food security across the Pacific. The activity will fund the scientific development and release of a bio-control to suppress the beetle, as well as regional and national support to introduce biosecurity and pest management plans to limit the spread and population of the beetle.
Manage Scholarships Operations Phase 3 Future State Project This Activity, following on from the Scholarships Improvement Project and the transition of the operational management of the Manaaki New Zealand Scholarship Programme (MNZSP) from MFAT to Education New Zealand (ENZ), aims to enhance operational management of the MNZSP delivered by ENZ towards our agreed Future State. ENZ will engage with current providers of the MNZSP to manage the change progression from Design to Implementation.
Negotiated Partnership: ChildFund New Zealand Implementation Negotiated Partnership implementation between ChildFund New Zealand (CFNZ) and MFAT, funding a multi-year, multi-country child/youth-focused programme.
Transport: Pacific Maritime Safety Programme 3. Delivering Maritime Assistance in the Pacific. The Activity will promote and implement safe, reliable, environmentally- friendly and affordable maritime transport services connecting people and markets in the Pacific and meeting international requirements.