Glossary
- Consultant
A consultant or contractor is an independent person (or legal entity) who provides services to NZAID.
- Empowerment
Empowerment is individuals acquiring the power to think and act freely, exercise choice, and to fulfil their potential.
See Gender Analysis.
- Extreme poverty
Extreme poverty is an inability to meet basic needs.
See Poverty Analysis.
- Poverty of opportunity
Poverty of opportunity is where opportunities to participate in economic, social, civil and political life are seriously limited.
See Poverty Analysis.
- Sector Wide Approach
A sector-wide approach is a way of providing development assistance that strengthens national ownership, and helps build nationally managed systems, with the support of development partners and lenders.
- Vulnerability to poverty
Vulnerability to poverty is where individuals, communities and countries are particularly vulnerable to circumstances likely to damage their: - livelihoods - ability to meet basic needs - ability to participate in economic, social , civil and political life.
See Poverty Analysis.