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New Zealand Ministry of
Foreign Affairs and Trade
Manatū Aorere
195 Lambton Quay
11 March 2025
Private Bag 18−901
Wellington 6160
New Zealand
T +64 4 439 8000
F +64 4 472 9596
Craig Reynolds
OIA 29947
[FYI request #30032 email]
Tēnā koe Craig Reynolds
Thank you for your email of 11 February 2025 in which you request the following under
the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA):
“I note in the 2024 Budget, over a billion dollars appears to be allocated to
international aid and development programmes.
Can you please summarise in a table all the funded international aid or
development programmes the department runs or funds, including the cost,
location, measured outcomes or desired objectives for each programme. Please
note any programme that MFAT is directly running vs via a partner agency.”
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (the Ministry) has launched a website aimed at
improving the transparency of New Zealand’s International Development Cooperation
(IDC) activities. DevData
(https://devdata.mfat.govt.nz/) is interactive, allowing users to
find and download detailed information, updated monthly, on over 2,400 activities.
You can run an enquiry on DevData based on location (by country) and timeframe
(financial or calendar year) that will provide the following detailed information on
activities since 2012:
•
total expenditure
•
current status
•
activity description
•
sector
•
modality; and
•
implementing partner.
A small subset of activities are excluded from DevData. This includes activities where we
have specific concerns relating to security/safety, privacy, sensitive/confidential
information, or harm to operations and small-scale activities delivered through Head of
Mission/Embassy funds.
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In addition to the activity-level data available above, you can find information on
New Zealand’s IDC Programme as a whole at the sources below:
•
The Ministry website provides a breakdown of approved IDC funding for the 2024-
27 triennium by allocation group here:
https://www.mfat.govt.nz/en/aid-and-
development/our-approach-to-aid/where-our-funding-goes/our-planned-idc-
expenditure.
•
The Minister of Foreign Affairs produces an annual report on New Zealand’s IDC
Programme that provides breakdowns of expenditure by key priorities, sector, and
country/region; as well as measured outcomes and demonstrated results. The link
to the 2023/24 Report is here:
https://www.mfat.govt.nz/assets/Aid-Prog-
docs/Policy/Annual-Report-23-24-IDC-standalone-lower-res.pdf.
•
The Ministry’s evaluation programme assesses achievement of outcomes and
desired objectives at an activity and programme level. All our programme level
evaluations, and some of our activity level evaluations, are published, and can be
found a
t: https://www.mfat.govt.nz/en/aid-and-development/our-approach-to-
aid/evaluation-and-research.
Accordingly, your request is refused under section 18(d) of the OIA as the information is
publicly available.
Please note that it is our policy to proactively release our responses to official
information requests where possible. Therefore, our response to your request (with your
personal information removed) may be published on the Ministry website:
www.mfat.govt.nz/en/about-us/contact-us/official-information-act-responses/
If you have any questions about this decision, you can contact us by email at:
[email address]. You have the right to seek an investigation and review by the
Ombudsman of this decision by contacting
www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or freephone
0800 802 602.
Nāku noa, nā
Sarah Corbett
for Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Trade
