Activity Design Guideline

Annex 1: Activity Design Document Contents

An NZAID-supported Activity Design Document will usually include the following at a level of detail appropriate to the Activity.:

Activity origin and design process
Overall development challenge and any key policy issues
Strategy options considered
Activity description (goal, Activity objective, outputs, key risks, and expected costs)
Other partners’ inputs
Management arrangements
Justification for NZAID support.

Development Context
- Policy and programme context (NZAID/partner country and/or /partner agency)
- Poverty analysis
- Location and geographic parameters
- Socio-economic and cultural context
- (See NZAID Integrated Tool on Cross-cutting Issues)
Description of Problematic Situation (based on problem analysis)
- Specific problem area of proposed intervention
- Broader problematic context
Potential Responses (objective analysis)
- Outline of possible strategies
Stakeholder Analysis
- Beneficiaries
- Other primary and secondary stakeholders
Basis for Strategy Selection (strategy analysis)
- Poverty analysis
- Social impact analysis
- Gender analysis
- Environment analysis
- Institutional analysis
- Analysis of other cross-cutting issues
- Risk analysis
- Sustainability analysis
- Financial and economic analysis
- Relevance to NZ capability and areas of interest
- Lessons learned from similar Activities

Goal
Activity objective/s
Outputs
Indicative timing and work-plan
Implementing responsibilities, including partners’ financial and other resource responsibilities

Management arrangements
Monitoring
- Performance and benefits indicators
  - For objectives, outputs and tasks/activities
  - How the information will be gathered (source of verification)
  - How it will be communicated
Key reporting requirements
Risk management
- Key risks and assumptions and how the strategy will address these
- Risk monitoring
- Management of risks