New Zealand

NZ has 12 investment priorities. These priorities emphasize private-sector led growth that supports sustainable development. They focus on improving well-being and reducing poverty, hardship and vulnerability through access to economic opportunities and high-quality public services. Our priorities also support resilience to climate change, natural disasters and external economic events. Priorities:

• Renewable energy - expand access to affordable, reliable and clean energy
• Agriculture - increase economic and food security benefits from agriculture
• Information Communications Technology (ICT) - expand ICT connectivity, access and use in the Pacific
• Fisheries - increase economic and food security benefits from sustainable fisheries and aquaculture in the Pacific
• Tourism - increase economic benefits from tourism in the Pacific
• Trade and labour mobility - increase economic benefits from trade and labour mobility in the Pacific
• Economic governance - strengthen economic governance in the Pacific
• Law and justice - strengthen law and justice systems in the Pacific
• Health - improve the health of people in the Pacific
• Education - improve knowledge, skills and basic education
• Resilience - strengthen resilience
• Humanitarian - respond to humanitarian emergencies Policy priorities New Zealand’s development effort involves leadership on policy issues alongside aid funding.

Our aid efforts are more likely to succeed if partner countries have effective policies in place. Therefore, engaging with partner governments on policy issues is an important part of our development work. We're a champion internationally for development issues affecting small island developing states. Domestically, we advocate for development-friendly New Zealand policy. We have six priorities for our policy work: We advocate, at the global level, for policies that support sustainable development in small island developing states. We engage with Pacific partners on economic and social policies that promote sustainable development and effective implementation. We work with partners to improve donor coordination in the Pacific. We strengthen the development impact of New Zealand’s domestic and international policy positions. We work with the Pacific to develop effective regional approaches to regional issues. We negotiate and implement policy agreements that improve the ability of Pacific Island countries to trade in goods, services and labour.