New Zealand's aid programme has been under scrutiny from an international review team.
The last report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) - five years ago - praised the decision to create NZAID as a semi-autonomous body with a focus on poverty elimination.
Since then, the National Government has wrapped NZAID back into the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
The OECD official heading the review team, Karen Jorgensen, says the Government's new emphasis on sustainable economic development shouldn't mean poverty will be ignored.
"Both components are really necessary - one cannot happen without the other and economic development certainly shouldn't happen without some attention to how you then use that as a vehicle for alleviating poverty."
Karen Jorgensen says New Zealand aid programmes have been characterised in the past by high quality professionalism and she hopes the current review will find that's still the case.
