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What is the Manaaki Fund?
Manaaki is an annual contestable fund for registered NZ NGOs seeking co-investment for smaller-scale development activities seeking co-investment for smaller-scale targeted development activities, working in partnership with local partners. The NZ NGOs must be a registered legal entity.
The focus of the Manaaki fund is to support development outcomes in vulnerable, marginalised and hard to reach communities to ensure no one is left behind.
Manaaki has annual funding rounds, with approved activities receiving MFAT co-investment of between NZ$100,000 and NZ$1.25 million.
Applications must target priority developing countries in the Pacific and Southeast Asia, reach vulnerable and/or marginalised people and groups, and demonstrate how proposed activities will deliver impact that aligns with, or complements, the identified development cooperation priorities for the partner country and New Zealand’s International Development Cooperation priorities.
Manaaki Round Eight
28 Jan 2026 Opening Date
28 Apr 2026 Closing Date
Guidelines, Templates, and Tools
See information on Manaaki reporting templates.
Manaaki Fund Portfolio: Rounds 1 - 7 and Climate Round
NZ$36.7 million of MFAT funding has been allocated to 45 activities across Manaaki rounds one - seven and the climate round. As at 22 January 2026, 31 activities are in progress, and fourteen activities have been completed.
- Manaaki round seven closed on 4 May 2025 with eight applications. Four of the five activities recommended to proceed had a focus on the Pacific and one on Laos. The round seven portfolio spans economic and climate resilience, water sanitation and hygiene, disability services, education, and health.
- Manaaki round six closed on 30 April 2024 with eleven applications. Six of the eight activities recommended to proceed had a focus on the Pacific, and two others on Indonesia and Sri Lanka. The round six portfolio spans agriculture, water, sanitation and hygiene, disability services, education, health, and economic and climate resilience.
- Manaaki Climate round closed 1 August 2023 with eight applications. Six of the eight activities recommended to proceed had a focus on the Pacific. The climate round portfolio spans climate change adaptation and mitigation, human and inclusive development and economic resilience.
- Manaaki round five closed 1 March 2023 with seven applications. Five of the seven activities recommended to proceed had a focus on the Pacific. The round five portfolio spans climate change, human and inclusive development.
- Manaaki round four closed 11 May 2022 with ten applications. Six of the seven activities recommended to proceed focus on the Pacific with the other in Viet Nam. The round four portfolio spans climate change, human and inclusive development, and economic resilience.
- Manaaki round three closed 31 May 2021 with six applications. Two of the four activities recommended to proceed focus on the Pacific with the other two in Laos and Timor-Leste. The round three portfolio spans climate change and non-climate environmental issues, human and inclusive development and economic resilience.
- Manaaki round two closed 29 May 2020 with 12 applications. Five of the seven activities recommended to proceed focus on the Pacific, with a portfolio spanning sustainable fisheries, climate and community resilience, health, water, sanitation and hygiene. Two activities in Myanmar and Cambodia focus on financial inclusion and economic empowerment/human rights.
- Manaaki round one closed 10 May 2019 with nine applications. All five of the activities recommended to proceed focus on the Pacific, with a portfolio spanning education for children and people living with disabilities, health, disaster risk resilience, water, sanitation and hygiene, and human rights.