Activity Cycle: Activity Identification
- Activity Appraisal: Guidelines and Templates
- Use these guidelines and templates when appraising an Activity concept or design. They include a templates for appraisal of an activity concept or design and an appraisal meeting minutes template.
- Activity Identification
- The Activity identification process and Activity concept templates are used when a potential Activity has been identified. The concept is appraised and approval obtained before more detailed design can proceed.
- Activity Quality Policy and Rating Scale
- The Activity Quality Policy and the accompanying Activity quality rating scale (which uses the DAC criteria) apply across all stages of the Activity cycle.
- Activity Quality Rating Scale
- The Activity quality rating scale is based on the five DAC criteria of relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, impact and sustainability. It uses a 6-pont scale to rate each criterion and is used in Activity appraisals, assessments, reporting and evaluations.
- Activity Risk Assessment
- Templates and guidelines for assessing Activity risk.
- Aid Modalities Guideline
- The aid modality guideline defines and describes the range of aid modalities currently used by the New Zealand Aid Programme.
- Conflict Risk Assessment
- This guideline covers the fundamentals of conflict-risk assessment and provides guidance on different methodologies for undertaking conflict-risk assessment at the country, sector, and development activity levels.
- Diagram of Activity Management and Contracting Tools by Process Stage
- This diagram provides links to the documents and templates that support the Activity management and contracting processes.
- Health: The Role of Health in Economic Development
- This document discusses recent research investigating health’s role in fostering economic development.
- Market Chain Approach
- This tool outlines the Market (or Value) Chain Approach (MCA) and its practical application to the identification and/or design of development Activities. It is intended for use by MFAT staff managing the New Zealand Aid Programme and partners involved in the identification, design and/or implementation of market-oriented development Activities.
- Partner Risk Assessment
- A checklist for assessing partner risk and a key to the ratings.
- Responding to Natural Disasters in the Pacific
- A guideline and contact list for responding to natural disasters in the Pacific.
- SWAps | Sector Wide Approaches
- A SWAp reflects an approach or philosophy that is based on working in support of partner government policies, strategies and systems. The emphasis is on working in a harmonised and aligned way and may encompass a range of partnership arrangements, aid delivery instruments and modalities.
- TOR | Terms of Reference
- These tools set out general principles and support good practice for the preparation of Terms of Reference (TOR) for contracts for service (CFS).
- Value for Money Guideline
- This guideline defines Value for Money and provides guidance on MFAT expectations, on how value for money is pursued by the New Zealand Aid Programme during the activity cycle, and on a number of possible approaches to assessment.