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The News and musings from the yards, barrel halls and tasting panels, and from on the road traveled between.

Delivering Urban Wellbeing through Transformative Community Enterprise

This report summarises the research and explains how we developed and used a ‘Community Economy Return on Investment’ tool to document and measure the transformative social and environmental outcomes of…continue reading

Kei te pēwhea tō whānau? Exploring Whānau Well-being through the Māori Social Survey

Kei te pēwhea tō whānau? Exploring whānau using the Māori Social Survey describes how the Māori Social Survey 2013 (Te Kupenga) will study whānau and whānau well-being. This report explains…continue reading

2018 Non-Profit Institutions Satellite Account (NPISA) from Stats NZ

Non-profit institutions satellite account (NPISA) provides information about the contribution non-profit institutions (NPIs) make to the New Zealand economy in 2018 and measures of volunteering and unpaid work. NPISA supplements…continue reading

Developing a Kaupapa Māori Framework for Whānau Ora

Te Korowai has been developed from seven interconnecting themes raised by hui with kaumatua and represents the concepts and practicalities of Whānau ora. Te Korowai looks at the individual while…continue reading

Si Ma Cai Ethnic Minority Market in northern Vietnam

The Can Cau market in Si Ma Cai district, northern Vietnam is a traditional market of the Red Mhong ethnic minority. The Mhongs have been living here for several generations…continue reading

Marae based Whānau Ora PATH Planning

A presentation by Kataraina Pipi and Kim Whaanga-Kipa about the marae based Whānau Ora PATH Planning

Smart street (wireless Parking)

Electric cars are the future of transportation without pollutions. Electric cars industry start to grow fast, but this cars facing some problems like, low speed and the car take long…continue reading

Tipping the balance: An analysis of the impact of the Working for Families Policy on Māori Whānau.

NZ’s Working for Families (WFF) policy introduced in 2004 aimed to address, amongst other things, the poverty faced by low-income working families. While WFF has been evaluated, little evidence exists…continue reading

Te Ahi – Youth Wellbeing

BGI facilitated a diverse group of about 20 young people (who named themselves Te Ahi o Ngā Rangatahi (The Fire of Youth)) to identify issues facing young people and develop…continue reading

A study on Corona Virus (Covid-19)

A study on the COVID-19

Facilitating domestic violence programmes: Listening to voices from the field.

Relationship Services Whakawhanaungatanga (now Relationships Aotearoa) undertook an evaluation of 15 years of domestic violence programme facilitation. Ideas were gathered from experienced facilitators, client evaluation forms were analysed and Māori…continue reading

Implementing Working for Families: the impact of the policy on selected Māori whānau

This paper presents an analysis of the qualitative data collected for a study investigating the effect of the Working for Families policy on Māori families’ self-reported whānau ora (family wellbeing).…continue reading

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