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Welcoming Cities Symposium, Brisbane June Rout, INZ and Haidee Kalirai, Tauranga City Council 3 April 2019 Welcoming Communities Journey Implementation Councils and communities Growing the Welcoming Communities profile in community

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Welcoming Cities Symposium, Brisbane June Rout, INZ and Haidee Kalirai, Tauranga City Council

3 April 2019

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Welcoming Communities Journey – Implementation

Councils and communities

  • Growing the Welcoming Communities profile in community
  • Involving Advisory Groups in the programme’s development
  • Completing the stocktake
  • Benchmarking against the Standard
  • Partnering to develop Welcoming Plans
  • Launching their Welcoming Plans
  • Implementing Welcoming Plan activities
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Welcoming Communities Journey – Implementation

INZ

  • Publishing the Interim Evaluation Report
  • Making a case to expand the programme
  • Knowledge sharing and networking
  • Hosting national workshops
  • Producing new resources - poster
  • Starting the co-design process for the accreditation model
  • Fostering links with Welcoming International and Welcoming Cities
  • Highlighting successes nationally and internationally
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Welcoming Communities – stories

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Welcoming Communities – stories

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Content

  • Introduction and purpose of presentation
  • Welcoming Plan development
  • What has been achieved so far
  • Observable outcomes
  • Learnings and next steps.
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Western Bay of Plenty

  • Population: 200,000
  • 19% born overseas, 17.6% Māori
  • One of the faster growing areas in New Zealand
  • Hosts a significant portion of New Zealand’s

horticultural land

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Observable outcomes

  • Strengthened relationships with migrant groups and organisations
  • Increased information sharing across the sector
  • Better coordination of local settlement/ cultural activities
  • Increased collaboration
  • Increased awareness of diversity and inclusion
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Learnings and next steps

Learnings

  • Value of enhancing and strengthening existing initiatives
  • It takes time to build the groundwork, and relationships, for collaboration and the

roll out of new initiatives

  • Knowing when councils need to lead and when to step back

Next steps

  • Continuing to implement our Welcoming Plan
  • Applying for accreditation
  • Defining the role of the local iwi
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www.immigration.govt.nz/welcomingcommunities https://youtu.be/5L5Ay9cRfDI