N.Z. diverts funds
PA Auckland New Zealand has diverted its longstanding aid funding of geothermal power development in the Philippines because of concern about human rights abuses under the Marcos regime. Instead, the $1.7 million annual aid budget for the Philippines will be spent on village-level schemes aimed at helping as many poor Filipinos as possible. The change of direction had been ordered by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr O’Flynn, who has been
concerned about human rights violations in the Philippines, according to one of his advisers.
Mr O’Flynn told the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to divert New Zealand aid money “to the people at the bottom of the heap, and to make it clear that is where the money is going to,” the adviser said. New Zealand has contributed $2O million since 1972 to geothermal development in the Philippines. The consultancy programme was to have continued until 1987. After
Mr O’Flynn’s directive, financing ceased on December 31.
About $400,000 would still be spent this year and next, however, on training Filipinos in geothermal technology. K.R.T.A. Ltd, an Auckland consultant engineering firm which did most of the aid work for the power stations, is winding down its Philippines work. It once had more than 30 staff there. Now it had seven or eight, said its marketing development manager, Mr Barry Baines.
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