Whakakī i te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko te hōtaka āwhina a Aotearoa e whakahaeretia ana e te New Zealand Agency for International Development (NZAID), he rōpū āhua motuhake i roto i te Tāhuhu o ngā Take o waho me te Tauhokohoko. I te tau 2007, ko Aotearoa te tuaono o nga kaiwhakawhiwhi awhina o waho i roto i te Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), i runga i te wahanga o te moni a-motu (GNI) i whakapauhia mo te awhina whanaketanga o tawahi. Ko te takoha a Aotearoa ko te 0.27% o te GNI. Ko te nuinga o tēnei i haere ki te rohe o te Moananui a Kiwa. Heoi, i ētahi wā ka nui ake te aroha o te whenua ki te urupare ki ngā raruraru nui, hei tauira, i te koha i te $ 100 miriona ki te 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami relief efforts, te $ 1 miriona ki te 2010 Haiti earthquake relief efforts, ā, i muri mai ka hoatu e te kāwanatanga te $ 2 miriona ki te
Ngā mahi āwhina mō te ru me te tsunami i Hapani 2011. Whai muri i te ruu o Nepal i te Paenga-whawha me te Mei 2015, i tukuna e te Kawanatanga o Niu Tireni te $ 1 miriona tuatahi hei awhina tangata, a kua whakauruhia e 45 nga tohunga rapu me te whakaora taone. He maha hoki ngā hōia me ngā waka rererangi o Aotearoa e tukuna ana ki ngā wāhi parekura i te rohe o Āhia-Kiwa.