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New Zealand soldiers in Afghanistan: inspecting an NZAID project

New Zealand soldiers in Afghanistan: inspecting an NZAID project

Soldiers of New Zealand's Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) inspect an NZAID project in Bamyan province, Afghanistan. The PRT acted as the project manager in Bamyan for New Zealand Aid Programme (NZAID) teams. NZAID is the aid programme of New Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. The PRT had to plan its inspection tours on an ad hoc basis, as a regular schedule would have exposed troops to a greater danger of ambush. Commentators in New Zealand asked how effective an aid programme could be when it was managed by troops who were in Bamyan for only six months.

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New Zealand Defence Force

Reference: WN09-0040-64

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Lance Beath, Terrorism and counter-terrorism – New Zealand in the ‘War on Terror’, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/34675/new-zealand-soldiers-in-afghanistan-inspecting-an-nzaid-project (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Lance Beath, i tāngia i te 17 April 2012, updated 1 September 2021.

Comments

Suzanne Loughlin
04 August 2022
This item is mis-leading. NZAID staff monitored ODA funded project, not the military. the NZ PRT might have visited but they were not formally asked to monitor ODA funded projects. Given the difficulties involving military in development in that is heightens the risk for national staff and Afghans involved in the projects, efforts were made to keep the military and civilian aspects separate, not always successfully. Ngaa mihi Suzanne former NZAID Afghanistan programme manager 2004-2009