Aid And Development

Deborah Mackenzie , Tania Domett and Ruth Herbert are the co- founders of 'Backbone' - a national collective that aims to help identify the gaps in helping women escape violence and abuse. They join… Audio

Waiau's fire brigade had to rely on water from a borrowed pump to fight this week's Hanmer Springs scrub fire....after the brigade's own pump was stolen three months ago. Audio

A global aid organisation that was considering the former Prime Minister Helen Clark in its hunt for a new executive director has scrapped its search. It's unclear whether she'll continue to contest… Audio

Six years after Christchurch's destructive 6.3 magnitude earthquake the rebuild programme is now being used to provide training for workers from the Pacific. Twenty-four workers from Fiji, Tonga and… Audio

The Auckland Mayor Phil Goff is cautiously welcoming a government proposal to create powerful new agencies to drive major urban developments. Audio

Cathederal Square has remained largely untouched by developers since the 2011 earthquake. That is about to change, with work beginning on a series of hotels. Audio

A New Zealand aid worker in Nigeria says half a million children are malnourished in the Lake Chad basin as their families battle famine and the Boko Haram insurgency. Audio

A group of 24 already well qualified international professionals are heading to New Zealand to graduate from Massey University with their masters in One Health. Audio

A third visit by Prime Minister John Key to quake affected Kaikoura brings the realisation for the Government, and many locals of the enormity, of the recovery ahead. Audio

Hawkes Bay Regional Council support for the Ruataniwha Dam ebbs following the weekend's local election. Audio

Aid agency Caritas has called for a rethink on climate funding for the Pacific, as a new report shows a noticeable reduction in the access to nutricious food and safe drinking water over the past… Audio

As officials argue over what measures to use to record child poverty rates, a community leader and Flaxmere councillor says we simply need to get on with reducing child poverty. We speak with… Audio

A UN aid convoy is still waiting to be allowed to cross into Syria to take humanitarian supplies to tens of thousands of civilians in Allepo. The UN is frustrated. Audio

Television presenters Petra Bagust and Ido Drent have been in Thailand and Cambodia getting a first hand experience of one of the world's fastest growing criminal industries: Human trafficking. They… Audio