Policy for disadvantaged communities and capacity building for Maori and Pacific communities

Other Agencies

Areas of Interest

Agriculture and Forestry

Effects on rural communities

Child, Youth and Family Services (Ministry of Social Development)

Iwi and Maori social services, community and voluntary sector implications

Consumer Affairs

Consumer issues including energy safety

Corrections

Programmes and services for offenders (prisons and community), Maori and Pacific community service provider development

Economic Development

Regional development, communications, infrastructure implications

Education Review Office

Policies with an impact on schools and early childhood education

Internal Affairs

Implications for local government and community and voluntary sector

Justice

Family Court issues, Maori Land Court, Waitangi Tribunal

Labour

Impacts on community economic development

Land Information New Zealand

Land issues

Ministry of Housing

Tenancy issues and community capacity building

Ministry of Youth Development (Ministry of Social Development)

Initiatives that impact on child and youth development

National Library

Improving Maori language skills through strategies that increase access and knowledge to collections and information

Office for Disability Office (Ministry of Social Development)

Implications for disabled people, education, employment, and income policies

Office of Ethnic Affairs (Department of Internal Affairs)

Policies with impact on schools, local government and community and voluntary sector, collection of information on disadvantaged "other" ethnic groups, refugees and migrants

Police

Offending and victimisation issues

Research, Science and Technology

Social research, Maori and Pacific Island people research