The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (2005) posed an important challenge to the world of development cooperation and to the field of devBy way of background, the Philippines Bilateral Strategy (PBS) received over NZD18m in financial support from NZAID over five years.

This evaluation of the NZAID-Tuvalu Country Strategy 2002-2007 (hereafter the Strategy) aims to assess the achievements as well as identify lessons and opportunities for the new country strategy. The audience for this evaluation is NZAID and MFAT, plus the key stakeholders in Tuvalu and New Zealand.

By way of background, the objectives of NZAID’s Kiribati Country Strategy for 2002-2007 and 2006-2009 were to improve educational outcomes, improve public sector performance and to apply the cross-cutting themes of gender equity, environmental improvement and human rights. The second strategy also had human resource development and urban renewal as objectives.

In June 2005, the Official Development Assistance (ODA) Contestable Fund was established by NZAID. The purpose of the fund was to enable New Zealand (NZ) government agencies access to funds to work in partnership with their in-country counterparts in their areas of expertise. In 2007, the fund was renamed the Government Agencies Fund (GAF). The...

The NZAID Multilateral and Regional Agency Assessment Framework (MARAAF) was developed in 2002 in response to the Cabinet minute establishing NZAID, which directed NZAID to more closely target its efforts towards agencies aligned with NZAID’s poverty focus. The primary stated purpose of the MARAAF was to ‘help determine where NZAID should be directing its development...