Activity Cycle: Activity Implementation
- Activity Implementation, Monitoring and Reporting
- The activity implementation tools are designed to guide and assist with monitoring and reporting on the progress of an Activity during the implementation phase.
- Activity Monitoring Assessment (AMA)
- The AMA is intended to help MFAT staff prepare and complete an activity monitoring assessment of an activity supported by the New Zealand Aid Programme.
- 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.
- 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.
- Evaluating an Activity
- These tools provide guidance on evaluating Activities. They include an Evaluation Decision Checklist, templates for Terms of Reference (TOR)for Evaluations and for Evaluation Steering Groups, templates for evaluation plans, evaluation reports, providing feedback and reporting on evaluations.
- 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.
- Participatory Evaluation
- We encourages the use of participatory approaches for assessing performance.
- 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.