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The quarterly Community and Voluntary Sector Research Forum is convened by ANGOA, the Association of NGOs of Aotearoa, with assistance from the Office for the Community and Voluntary Sector at the NZ Ministry of Social Development.
The intention is to involve a balance of people (e.g. from the community and voluntary sector, government, universities) who are actively seeking to increase the pool of information on the sector by undertaking research or research-related projects, or by promoting or funding research.
Meetings are open to all who are working to increase the pool of information on the voluntary sector by undertaking research or research-related projects, or by promoting or funding research.
Please advise dave.henderson@angoa.org.nz if you do not wish to receive further material. Thanks.
Offers, suggestions or recommendations of presentations are welcome for any or all of these events – please contact dave.henderson@angoa.org.nz
Quarterly, 1pm to 4pm on the fourth Wednesday of the month:
25 November: at the Families Commission, 6thFloor, Public Trust Building, 117-125 Lambton Quay, Wellington.
November Roundtable cancelled due to sector forum with Prime Minister John Key and other Ministers.
ANGOA AGM will be on Wednesday 9 December, 7.30am start for a buffet breakfast - finish by 10am.
Venue is the Quality Hotel, 213-223 Cuba Street, Wellington; Guest Speaker Len Cook, project leader for ANGOA’s Assessment of the Statement of Government Intentions for an Improved Community-Government Relationship.
Please RSVP to RSVP@ideasshop.co.nz
29 October was the last for 2009
21 September was the last for 2009
Postal Address: PO Box 24 243, Manners Street, Wellington.
Website: Can be referred to for more information about ANGOA activities: www.angoa.org.nz
The ANGOA Coordinator works part-time and is best contacted at dave.henderson@angoa.org.nzor for urgent matters at 04 972 7708.
ANGOA is an Association of organisations in the tangata whenua, community and voluntary sector in Aotearoa/NZ. We welcome membership applications from eligible groups; the subscription is $50 per year. We also welcome donations from individuals and organisations that are not eligible for membership. These contributions are all an important source of support for ANGOA’s work, helping maintain our independence. More information is available from the ANGOA Coordinator, dave.henderson@angoa.org.nzor from the ANGOA website www.angoa.org.nz .
If you would like to present or discuss your work, or recommend someone you want to hear from at one of these forums, please contact dave.henderson@angoa.org.nz
The Hikurangi Foundation and the ASB Community Trust, bothcurrently fund environmental issues in different ways. They both are looking to be more strategic in their funding and to support the wider grant giving community in understanding the issues and how they can make a difference. This survey is one contribution they are making to the debate in the wider sector and New Zealand.
Our environment is important to New Zealand for numerouseconomic, social and cultural reasons. New Zealand’s economy is highly dependent on its agriculture, horticulture, forestry, fishing and tourism industries and all of these industries require natural resources and healthy ecosystems. The maintenance of acceptable living standards, health, wellbeing, community development and equality are all driven by the quality of the environment.
In Māori culture, all things have a mauri - a life force. Damage tothis mauri, or human attempts to dominate it result in the mauri losing its energy and vitality. Any loss of mauri affects the lives of people themselves as well as the resilience of ecosystems.
The environment is highly valued by New Zealanders in theirleisure and sense of identity. Yet many indicators of sustainability in New Zealand are going in the wrong direction with, for example biodiversity under extreme pressure, household consumption levels rising and environmental related health concerns at high international levels. Within this, climate change is an issue which many say is the greatest environmental threat the world faces.
See more on the Survey at http://www.hikurangi.org.nz/?p=468or see the Hikurangi website at www.hikurangi.org.nz
In New Zealand there is a recognised gap in educational opportunities regarding drug and alcohol harm-minimisation for youth.
The New Zealand Red Cross save-a-mate (SAM) Alcohol and other Drugs Emergencies Course is a programme developed to teach alcohol and drug knowledge and first aid in relation to alcohol and drug emergencies. It is designed to be delivered either as a training programme for those working with youth or as a peer programme delivered by young volunteers to other young people.
The programme is based on the International Red Cross approach of Harm Minimisation in relation to alcohol and other drugs and works to teach young people how to respond to any adverse alcohol and other drug incidents that they see around them.
The SAM programme is a three and-a-half hour workshop. It involves presentations, activities and some group work. It is delivered by young volunteers to young people, or by Red Cross trainers to those that work with at-risk youth. The first part of the workshop looks at how drugs and alcohol affect the body, drug classification and drug and alcohol effects. The second part of the workshop looks at harm minimisation when using alcohol and other drugs and applying first aid when things go wrong.
A pilot of the programme was run in Wellington from February 3rd to July 3rd 2009. The evaluation of the pilot and the outcomes achieved will be presented. Contact Sara at sara.williams@redcross.org.nz or see www.redcross.org.nz .
James will be presenting on the latest update of the How do New Zealanders give?series, comparing volunteering and donation rates in New Zealand from 2007 to 2008".
You can contact James at James.King030@msd.govt.nzor go to one of the following OCVS websites:
www.goodpracticeparticipate.govt.nz
www.goodpracticefunding.govt.nz
www.ocvs.govt.nz
www.keepingitlegal.net.nz
Economic rationality vs. “We are all in this together”
New Zealand has had a strong tradition of recognising that the community and voluntary sector simultaneously functioned as part of the democratic process and as service providers. At the local and national levels the sector worked to meet community needs and voice the political aspirations of communities.
The initial results from a survey of New Zealand NGOs indicate that the true diversity in the community and voluntary sector while crucial if democracy and civil society are to flourish has been slowly eroded and threatened. This diversity may now be seen as an anathema to efficient delivery and accountability, as well as being contrary to the needs of government. Furthermore, what may appear as chaos to policy makers could be essential to ensure innovative responses to emerging social needs and leadership in social development by the community and voluntary sector.
These issues which have been narrowing participation in decision-making by NGOs will be discussed by Sandra and Charles, who are completing a project which attempts to understand the changing opportunities and hindrances for political participation by the NGOs sector
Contact Sandra Grey sandra.grey@vuw.ac.nz 04 463 5361 or Charles Sedgwick charles.sedgwick@vuw.ac.nz
Any short items of interest, news or announcements re research in the sector that people present want to report or discuss.
Warm thanks to Auckland City Council for providing the venue, data projection equipment and catering.
The results of this annual sector remuneration survey have now been released. It was based on an analysis of 6,811 employees representing 225 organisations – an increase of 77 organisations and almost 2,600 participants over last year. The survey provides detailed analyses of 91 job categories, providing base salary, fixed and total remuneration breakdowns by location and organisation size (employee numbers).
The key finding of the survey is the size of the pay gap between our sector and the broader employment market. On average, the difference in median base salaries between the not for profit sector and the public sector as at 1 May 2009 was 14.6%. On average, the difference in the median base salaries between the not for profit sector and the general market as at 1 May was 16.8%.
The survey also shows that a significant number of staff in the sector are contracted to work less than a full-time week: 48.2% work part-time. When factored against overall salary levels that are notably below the broader public sector and general market, this indicates a large part of our sector is both underpaid and underemployed.
To obtain a survey data-pack or further information about the survey, please contact Lyn at Lyn@strategicpay.co.nzor David Shannon, Senior Consultant at 09 3034053, david@strategicpay.co.nz
Kupu Taea is a research team based at Te Ropu Whariki, a Massey University Maori research group in Auckland, and has focused on Media and te Tiriti since 2004. For its first three years it was a community-based and funded research group; it is currently funded by the Health Research Council.
Kupu Taea has identifying 11 news media themes that undermine Maori and the Treaty. These themes use and build on ideas from the earliest days of colonisation, and are common in everyday Pakeha talk about Maori/Pakeha relations. These themes help make Pakeha control of institutions, resources, practices and culture seem right and natural, and position Maori practices and interests as marginal or a problem.
This talk will outline the way in which the media construct Pakeha as the norm against which all other groups are measured, and discuss the two most common anti-Maori themes - “Maori Privilege” and “Maori culture”.
It will also relate the anti-Maori themes to media advocacy work that community and voluntary sector agencies do about social issues, and encourage discussion about ways to resist, confront and avoid these negative frameworks.
Jenny Rankine spoke on behalf of Kupu Taea. Contact 849 9111 or 021 112 6868, jrankine@actrix.co.nzor
www.trc.org.nz/resources/media.htm
Feasibility Study - Recognising Social Services In-house Training Programmes
Jac will present the summary findings of a feasibility study for the Social Services Industry Training Organisation on how the in-house training programmes of social services can be recognised against national qualifications.
Thirteen non-government organisations and one government agency (Child, Youth and Family), participated in the study. These organisations saw recognition status and the process to gain it as potentially helping to retain and grow their paid and unpaid workforce, offering new pathways for professional development and improving their overall training systems. It also created opportunities to network with other social services on training issues and share learning about models of in-house training. Contact jac.lynch@tkaito.co.nz
See David’s paper at http://angoa.org.nz/docs/David-Robinson-Community-Governance-Why-our-interest.pdf
Any short items of interest, news or announcements re research in the sector that people present want to report or discuss.
In late October the Ministry of Research, Science and Technology released the document New Zealand's Research, Science and Technology Priorities: Feedback Document.
The government is currently setting priorities for research, science and technology and is seeking feedback from the sector.
The document seeks your comments on the government’s proposed investment structure, the balance between investment areas and on the areas in which it is proposed research platforms might be established.
MoRST is requesting feedback by 18 November 2009 at the latest. Feedback can be submitted by emailing feedback@morst.govt.nz. It will not be possible to take into account comments received after this date.
The electronic link to the document is: http://www.morst.govt.nz/Documents/publications/policy/NZ%20RST%20priorities%20feedback%20document.pdf
For printed copies of the feedback document, please email ros.gilliver@morst.govt.nz, or call 04 917 2900.
Priority setting will help meet the goal of increasing the contribution RS&T make to improved economic performance. The government will be considering two other issues in this context. These are:
How the CRI model can operate more effectively to support New Zealand’s development. A Taskforce is being set up and will report to the Ministers of Finance and RS&T as shareholding Ministers.
Ways to improve and encourage business R&D and how research organisations such as universities and CRIs can work more closely with business.
Given the strong links between these streams of work, the government is looking to make decisions in all three areas in December.
This newsletter is produced by ANGOA, the Association of NGOs of Aotearoa. All the information is intended to assist readers pursuing an interest in matters relating to research in the tangata whenua, community and voluntary sector in Aotearoa New Zealand. An effort is made within available resources to ensure accuracy but no guarantee is given or implied. If you have contributions, comments or suggestions, please forward them to dave.henderson@angoa.org.nz . We thank you warmly for your support, and hope to see you at these meetings!
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