Applications Open for Collaborate Pacific Fund

Deadline: Ongoing

The New Zealand Foreign Affairs & Trade is seeking applications for its program entitled “Collaborate Pacific” to support effective regional cooperation, governance, leadership, and sustainable development in the Pacific.

Collaborate Pacific recognises that partnership, collaboration, empowering Pacific voices, capacity building, people-to-people links, and knowledge-sharing are critical to ownership of development processes.

Objectives
Eligible activities include those that are small-scale and one-off in nature, and contribute to one or more of the fund’s objectives:

Supporting more effective governance and leadership in the region.
Supporting more effective regional cooperation.
Empowering the sustainable development of the Pacific in issues that matter to the region.
What the fund Covers?
Collaborate Pacific is a ‘reimbursable fund’ meaning that for successful applicants, payment is made at the conclusion of the event, based on actual expenditure (within the amount agreed). This actual expenditure is supported by appropriate receipts and a covering invoice.
Funding can cover travel (including transport, accommodation, and meals) and event costs (including hosting costs). In general, it is expected that applicants use the most economical and direct forms of transport.
Eligible Activities
Eligible activities must be consistent with the development priorities of the New Zealand Aid Programme and Pacific Island countries. These thematic priority areas include:

Agriculture
Children
Climate Change and disaster risk
Economic development
Education
Gender equality and women’s empowerment
Governance
Health
Humanitarian response
Human Rights
Information and communications technology
Labour mobility
Oceans and fisheries
Pacific Arts, Culture & Heritage
Renewable energy
Tourism
Trade
Youth
Eligibility Criteria
Organisations
Applications will be accepted from registered organisations only (i.e. not individuals), including government departments and agencies.
Organisations must be legally incorporated bodies. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) reserves the right to request copies of an organisation’s certificate of incorporation, constitution and latest annual financial statements during its appraisal of an application.
Eligible participants
Applications can be received on behalf of Pacific Island citizens.
Applications on behalf of citizens of other countries may be considered depending on the initiative’s alignment with the objectives of the fund.
For more information, visit https://www.mfat.govt.nz/en/aid-and-development/working-with-the-aid-programme/funding-opportunities/collaborate-pacific/