New Zealand Aid Programme

The government’s international aid and development programme, managed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Paying the price of the failure to retain legitimacy in a national charity: the CORSO story

A Victoria University paper outlining the decline of CORSO (PDF, 386 KB).

Towards excellence in aid delivery

A 2001 review of New Zealand’s overseas development aid (PDF, 423 KB).

Trade Aid

An organisation that supports fair trade with the developing world.

Volunteer Service Abroad

An organisation which places New Zealand aid volunteers overseas.

World Vision New Zealand

The New Zealand branch of this international Christian charity.

Bryant, George. Pathways of hope: the story of World Vision New Zealand. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press, 1996.

The Colombo Plan at 50: a New Zealand perspective: 50th anniversary of the Colombo Plan 1951–2001. Wellington: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 2001.

New Zealand and the developing world: an outline of New Zealand aid abroad. Wellington: Department of External Affairs, 1966.

Peat, Neville. The VSA way: 25 years of volunteering overseas. Wellington: Compatriot Press for Volunteer Service Abroad, 1987.

Richards, Trevor, and others. New Zealand abroad: the story of VSA in Africa, Asia and the Pacific. Wellington: Bridget Williams Books and Te Tūao Tāwāhi/Volunteer Service Abroad, 2002.

Smith, T. R. South Pacific commission: an analysis after twenty-five years. Wellington: Price Milburn for the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs, 1972.