Presentation to Gisborne

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Presentation to Gisborne Employment Summit
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Background

• Maori Economic Workshop
• Input into Prime Ministers Jobs Summit 6 ideas
  developed
• Initial consideration by Cabinet of outcomes of
  Jobs Summit
• All 6 Maori in the Economy ideas agreed for
  further consideration
• Assignment of Lead Ministers

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Minister of Maori Affairs

• Leadership of 4 of the Maori in the Economy ideas
• The education and training proposals assigned as
  part of the responsibility of the Hon. Tolley
• Leadership of 1 Local Govt. initiative

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The 6 ideas

• Integrated Approach to Maori Secondary and
  Tertiary Education
• Maori and Group Professional and Trade Training
• Enhancing Maori Business Performance
• Maori Infrastructure Developments
• Enhanced Utilisation of Maori Assets
• Improving the Effectiveness of Government
  Expenditure on Maori

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Integrated approach to education

• More integrated delivery for education and
  training in senior secondary and tertiary sectors
• Linking education and training to support the
  Maori asset base and emerging sectors
• Numeracy and literacy
• Relaxing funding and regulatory barriers
• Alternative delivery sites
• Research funding redirected towards skills

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Trade and Professional Training

• Sharpened emphasis on trade and professional
  training
• Requisite skills to support the Maori asset base
  and emerging sectors
• Pastoral care components
• Group training options
• cadetships

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Enhancing Maori Business

• Establish a dedicated Maori business service
• Provision of business advice and information
• Mentoring
• Access to development capital and micro-finance

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Maori Infrastructure

• Investing in projects that support Maori kinship
  based infrastructure including
• Iwi led housing projects
• Innovative approaches to existing housing stock
• Marae development
• Training as part of government infrastructure
  projects
• Extending infrastructure spend to low decile
  schools

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Utilisation of Maori Assets

• Options to position Maori assets into higher
  value, export focused productive use, eg,
• Accessing existing business support
• Legislative reform (where legislation is an
  inhibitor to asset development)
• Facilitation of Maori partnerships

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Tairawhiti Opportunities - Demographics

• Youthful population
• EducatiOn, educati0n!

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Maori Assets

• 27 of land area is Maori land
• Over 550,000 owners
• 1472 Trusts
• Marae

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Treaty Settlements

• Two major tribal groups in process of settling

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Maori SMEs

• Business Facilitation Service
• Up to 25 hours of mentoring
• Current focus on existing business
• Trends Majority have 0-5 employees, t/o between
  50,000 - 100,000.00