N.Z.’s African aid targets given

Press, 12 July 1985, Page 29

N.Z.’s African aid targets given

PA Wellington The Prime Minister, Mr Lange, outlined this week the areas targeted for help in the Government’s $2 million aid programme for Africa’s starving. Half the money under the African Relief and Rehabiliation Programme announced in March will go to the United Nations Secre-tary-General’s Emergency Trust Fund. Mr Lange said the programme reinforced the new direction begun last year in the geographic allocation of New Zealand’s official development assistance. “The composition of the African programme recognises that continued needs for emergency relief assistance have to be balanced with those for development

and policy reform support,” Mr Lange said. The Emergency Trust Fund was set up to consolidate contributions from donor Governments for African countries in crisis. New Zealand was the first donor to the fund last year. The balance of the $2 million programme includes: • A grant of $220,000 to the Southern African Development Co-ordinating Conference. • Grants to various United Nations and other multi-lateral agencies active in the relief effort such as Unicef, the World Food Programme, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and the International Committee of the Red Cross.