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Annual Report for the Year Ended 30 June 2011

Key Outcome: Te Ao Hurihuri - Māori prepared for future opportunities

Impact: Ensure consideration of impact on education and skills pathways informs key decisions
Government is better apprised of the issues impacting on Māori education and skills pathways. (No target specified.) Advice has been provided on issues impacting on Māori education and skills to Government including on the Tertiary Education Strategy, Youth Guarantee and Welfare Reform. This has led to a specific focus on Māori in these areas. Ongoing work with other agencies and stakeholder groups including the Ministry of Education, the Tertiary Education Commission, the Ministry of Social Development, Career Services, key institutions in the Tertiary sector and Industry Training Organisations on education and skills pathways for Māori.
Increased availability of Māori centred education, skills and training opportunities. (Target: Quality of policy advice assessed as minimum 3 on a 1-5 scale, and has a positive impact on the lead agency.) Ongoing work with all stakeholders within the education and training sector. Of particular note this year are two initiatives supporting the realisation of training and employment opportunities for Māori in the Canterbury recovery. These include a partnership between Ngāi Tahu and the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology in preparation for the re-build, and a programme with INFRATRAIN that included the training for 25 Māori to NZQA Level 5 in Demolition and Re-cycling to support the rebuild. A further initiative saw the provision of 100 cadetships across a range of industries through contracts with five employers saw Māori exposed to new skills and career development opportunities.
Impact: Enhance services for Māori businesses
Impact measures Results
Increased availability of Māori business services. (No target specified.) Achieved with 469 Māori business owners and entrepreneurs receiving business advice over the full year.
Increased uptake of business services by Māori businesses. (Target: Service provision to over 200 Māori businesses has positive business results according to business owners.)

Results of a survey of Māori SME owners engaged through MBFS indicate a level of 3.77 out of 5 of satisfaction with services provided by MBFS account managers and contracted business mentors.

MBFS has provided mentoring support to more than 300 businesses, with positive business results that included:

  • Okains Bay Seafood Ltd, a fish harvesting and exporting company to obtain NZTE funding and explore markets in the USA and Middle East. This has opened up opportunities to progress the development of new environment-friendly products with high-end innovation and research;
  • newly established Māori company, Snooze Cube Ltd, to secure a 5-year lease contract with United Arab Emirates to install 10 units of sleeping pods in Dubai Airport. The snooze cube is a high-tech sleeping cubicle designed by Māori entrepreneurs;
  • Assisted the Pukekura Blue Penguin Trust, a joint venture partnership between Korako Karetai Trust and Otago Peninsula Trust, develop a business case for the establishment of an eco-tourism business based on penguin viewing at Pilot’s Beach on the Otago Peninsula;
  • Strengthen relationships with the Ministry of Science and Innovation to access funding for three innovative Māori businesses; and
  • assisted Māori land owners optimise the benefits of, and mitigate the potential negative impacts of the New Zealand Emission Trading Scheme (NZ ETS), the MBFS embarked on offering (preliminary) business advice and mentoring support that help Māori land owners have; a better understanding on the benefits and pitfalls of the NZ ETS; and assist land owners who are interested in applying for the allocation of units or exemptions from the scheme. 240 Māori land blocks have been assisted through the MBFS mentoring support and through the Māori Potential Fund (MPF).
Impact: Enhance opportunities for utilisation of assets
Impact measures Results
Māori are more aware of asset utilisation opportunities. (No target specified.) Programmes creating asset utilisation opportunities and increased awareness include:
  • Māori Tourism Action Plan and related funding;
  • Mechanisms for delivery of Aquaculture Treaty Settlement and Undue Adverse Effects test;
  • Assisting Māori land owners to make informed decisions regarding pre-1990 forests and the Emissions Trading Scheme;
  • Analysis of opportunities for participation in the Resource Management Act;
  • Guide for improving Iwi management plans; and
  • Guide on Cultural Impact Assessments. Impact for Māori will be better determined once programmes have been implemented.

Additional areas of impact have seen, BERL commissioned to produce Te Ripoata Ohanga Māori mō Te Waiariki (refer page 42) the MBFS activity (refer page 30), and Economic Taskforce initiatives (refer page 50).
Barriers to asset utilisation are reduced. (Target: At least 2 barriers to the utilisation of Māori land are addressed through policy and/or legislative intervention.) Barriers to asset utilisation are being reduced through a joint work plan between the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and Te Puni Kōkiri to empower Māori landowners to achieve their land aspirations. The work plan includes:
  • Māori land owners being informed of investment opportunities and risks under the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS);
  • Funding to support at least 15 Māori land blocks to identify options to enhance land development through a facilitated collective approach; and
  • Scoping a potential review of Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993.