Guiding Principles/Objectives

Programmes

NZAID works towards poverty elimination through the promotion of sustainable development, gender equity, and human rights. Its ICT interventions focus on the creation of opportunities for sustainable livelihoods, which minimise vulnerability to poverty.

NZAID intervenes almost exclusively in the ICT sector through the promotion of access to distance education and open learning.  It also supports ICT use for health delivery, participatory government and strengthening civil society's role in governance mechanisms.

New Zealand's ICT delivery is primarily targeted at the Pacific. 

Areas of Application:

► Education (distance and open)
► Health

Distance education programmes, e.g.

► Support to modify USP Bachelor of Agriculture programme for distance education
► 5 year programme in the Pacific to pilot innovative distance education technologies and strengthen institutions which support distance learning
► Support for workshops examining the barriers to ICT

Participation in Multi-donor Programmes:

USP Net

Pacific

n/a

Ms. Ruth Holland, Pacific Education, Programme Manager, NZAID, ruth.holland@mfat.govt.nz