New Zealand's humanitarian assistance

New Zealand’s aid is focused on the Pacific – the region where New Zealand can clearly add most value – and this also guides its humanitarian policy. New Zealand’s approach to recovery and resilience is also built on its comparative advantage, leveraging domestic experience in reducing disaster and climate risks to help design and implement resilience programmes in the Pacific, and closely linking disaster recovery to existing bilateral programmes. However, New Zealand remains a small humanitarian donor, both in absolute volume and in percentage of total ODA there is scope for more effort in this area.