Iwi Chairs Forum
Sharing the vision of Kotahitanga
Investment Wananga Programme
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Tēnā koutou katoa,
I runga i te hau o whakamihi, nei rā te maioha ki a koutou o tēnā maunga whakahī, o tēnā awa tipua, o tēnā iwi. Tēnā rā koutou.
Responding to feedback from iwi participants, we have decided to cancel the Iwi Infrastructure/PPP Investment wānanga proposed for 7 December and 17/18 January.
While interest and enthusiasm for this project remains high, feedback suggests that large-scale, full-day wānanga may not be the most efficient way to engage iwi, particularly not at this busy time of year.
It is essential that the project is responsive to iwi needs, and we are keen to explore other ways of progressing it that meet that objective. To that end, the project team invites your responses to the proposals below, and any other suggestions you might have.
Targeted hui
If you have been unable to attend any of the wānanga to date – or if you have attended, but would like to explore particular issues in more detail than has been possible at those forums – let us know, and we will bring the information to you. If you can pull together asset managers or other representatives of three of four (or more!) iwi for a couple of hours, the project team will come to you, and talk with you about whatever aspects of the Infrastructure/PPP investment environment are most interesting or relevant to you.
Contact Justine Inns (justine.inns@ngaitahu.iwi.nz or 027 2275 324) or Hamiora Bowkett (hamiora.bowkett@nz.pwc.com or 04 462 7134) to arrange a hui at a time and place that suits you.
Discussion documents
The last wānanga, held in Whakatane, asked the project team to develop discussion documents, with concrete, real-life proposals and information on:
- A potential structure/vehicle for an iwi investment consortium;
- Modelling of potential rates of return from the proposed 2011 Ministry of Education PPP opportunity; and
- A draft investment profile for an iwi consortium, to provide a platform for pro-actively searching out potential PPP opportunities that provide a good fit with iwi investment parameters.
These documents will be distributed by email next week and a number of opportunities provided for you to give us your comments, criticisms and other feedback on that work and to suggest further pieces of work that should be advanced.
The website
We continue to build the resource library on the project’s webpage at: www.iwichairs.maori.nz/Kaupapa/PPP/III/ and anyone can register and interest, provide feedback or contact the project team through that page.
What else?
The project team has a clear set of objectives for this work:
- Build one or more iwi consortium that is ready, willing and able to invest in infrastructure through Public-Public Partnerships
- Ensure that consortium has access to top-class financial, legal and other technical advice
- Support iwi to take a significant – and profitable – stake in one or more PPP opportunities before the end of 2011
- Provide tools, templates and other resources on kaupapa Māori business models, infrastructure investment and PPPs to all iwi, including those not actively participating in a consortium at this stage.
The Māori Economic Taskforce is undertaking this project for the benefit of all iwi and we want all iwi to have the opportunity to contribute to the discussion, not just those who might currently be in a position to actively consider infrastructure investments. The project team welcomes all suggestions on how we can help you realise those objectives.
Iwi Māori can invest in infrastructure, we should invest in infrastructure, and the time is now – but we can only do it together:
Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi, he toa takitini kē
Mark Solomon
Chair, Assets and Collaboration Workstream
Māori Economic Taskforce
October Wānanga
| Date | Hosts / Venue | Kaupapa |
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| 28 October 2010 | Ngāti Awa Te Whare Wānanga O Awanuiārangi Francis Street, Whakatane |
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