GUIDELINES FOR NEW ZEALAND-AFRICA NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS FACILITY (NZANGOF)

Introduction
The New Zealand Agency for International Development (NZAID) has allocated funding from its 'Other Africa' Programme to non-governmental organisations (NGOs) for projects with partner agencies in Africa through the New Zealand-Africa NGO Facility (NZANGOF). This facility recognises and seeks to build on NGOs relationships with partner agencies and input they have already had in the region.

Background
The vision of NZAID is to achieve a safe and just world free of poverty. Poverty elimination is NZAID's central focus. Our work on poverty elimination addresses:

• Extreme poverty - an inability to meet basic needs, frequently intergenerational;
• Poverty of opportunity - where opportunities to participate in economic, social, civil and political life are seriously limited;
• Vulnerability to poverty - where individuals, communities and countries are particularly vulnerable to circumstances likely to damage their livelihoods;
• Ability to meet basic needs; and,
• Ability to participate actively in economic, social, civil and political life.

• The project must be consistent with NZAID policy statement;
• The project should benefit those who suffer poverty, who are under?privileged or disadvantaged;
• The project should be communal rather than individual in focus;
• An appraisal of the intended project should have been carried out to ensure that it is economically sound and well defined as to size and duration;
• The goal, objectives, outputs and outcomes of the project should be clear, realistic and sustainable;
• The project should be administratively viable and those responsible for it should possess the necessary qualifications, competence and experience to ensure its sound management;
• Members of the community should be involved at all stages of the projects appraisal, design, implementation and evaluation, and evidence of their participation in the design of the proposal should be included;
• Where expatriates are involved in the project there should be incorporated a training component to ensure that it can continue without reliance on expatriate involvement. Funding is not available for international travel or expatriate salary expenses unless it can be justified with reference to other criteria;
• The project should be environmentally sound and encourage sustainable use of natural resources;
• The project should contribute to community self-reliance. Preference will be given to projects, which attempt to address the causes of poverty rather than the symptoms. Additional weighting will be given to projects that work to change exploitative or unjust situations;
• The project will include gender analysis of roles and responsibilities and ensure that women are involved in the decision making at all stages of the project cycle;
• Monitoring and evaluation systems should be built into the project design;
• Where a project has attracted funding from other areas of NZAID these should be identified and the nature of the funding explained.