International agencies
Supporting international agencies human rights work
New Zealand provides support to a number of multilateral agencies involved in humanitarian work and the promotion and protection of human rights. Key partnerships and funding support is with:
- Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (NZ$2.5 million)
- Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (NZ$4.5 million)
- The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (NZ$4.5 million)
- United Nations Development Programme (NZ$8 million)
- United Nations Children’s Fund (NZ$4.6 million)
- United Nations Population Fund (NZ$4.5 million)
- United Nations Development Fund for Women (NZ$2 million)
- World Food Programme (NZ$4.5 million)
- United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (NZ$1 million)
- United Nations Mine Action Service (NZ$1 million)
- Joint UN Programme on HIV and AIDs (NZ$2.5 million)
- Commonwealth agencies (NZ$4.2 million)
- International Committee and International Federation of the Red Cross (NZ$2.2 million)
- International Planned Parenthood Federation ($2 million)
In addition, the New Zealand Agency for International Development (NZAID) contributes NZ$24 million per annum to humanitarian appeals in developing countries globally which has included contributions to Asia-Pacific as well as Afghanistan, Southern Africa, Uganda, Sudan, Iraq, the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Peru.
Through NZAID’s Africa Programme, funding has recently been given to the World Food Programme to cover shortfalls in the Zambia component of its Southern Africa Programme.
NZAID funding to New Zealand non-governmental organisations has been used to undertake human rights work in the Asia-Pacific and in countries such as Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
NZAID also provided NZ$4.5 million this year to New Zealand Non Government Organisations (NGOs) to undertake humanitarian work in countries such as Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Thailand, and Timor-Leste.
