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THE GREAT CAT MUSTER My experience of regional economic development in New Zealand 2007- 2017

Experiences of cat herding

• Regional economic development pre-2009
• Sector Policy – NZ Food Innovation Network 2009-2013
• Māori economic development and He kai ke aku ringa – 2012-2016
• Regional growth programme - 2013- 2016

Regional Economic Development Pre-2009

• Scale, capability and capacity
• Regional Council boundaries became the ED boundaries
• Regional Economic Development Strategies
• Large Scale ED Fund – Enterprising Partnerships Fund

Regional Economic Development Pre-2009: Lessons

• Money speaks ….but government money is not cheap
• Passionate, innovative people challenge government
• Regional councils have an important part to play in

economic development

Sector-specific regional economic development

FoodBowl, Auckland FoodSouth, Christchurch FoodPilot, Palmerston North FoodWaikato, Hamilton FoodSouth, Otago Food Hawkes Bay,

Lessons from NZ Food Innovation Network

• He tangata, he tangata, he tangata
• Implementation requires flexibility
• Adaptation and evolution is required
• Leadership is crucial to success
• Good things take time

Māori Economic Development

“… a ‘solutions focus’ is often a barrier to change… The path is not clear and is still unfolding. As a society we need to live our way into the solution. Life is a journey and it is through that journey that the answers will emerge.”

Healing Our History: The Challenge of the Treaty of Waitangi, Robert and Joanna Consedine, 3rd Edition 2012

Māori Economic Development: Lessons

• It is all about relationships
• Openness
• Respect & humility
• Trust
• Delivery
• Walk alongside
• … but you can’t walk on water
• Commitment to build on pilot interventions

Regional Growth Programme: First the Studies

Ministers (Economic Development, Primary Industries and Maori Development) Government agencies (MBIE, MPI , TPK) Regional offices of government agencies Within regions Business, Maori and local government (Advisory Groups) REGIONAL GROWTH STUDIES

Regional Growth Programme

• Partnership
• Leadership – ministerial, regional, economic
• Capability
• Changing Paradigms

….then the Action Plans

Ministers

(Economic Development, Primary Industries Maori Development, Social Development, Transport, Small Business, Local Government, Tourism)

Government agencies

(MBIE, MPI , TPK, MSD, MoE, NZTA, LGC, Treasury, DoC, MfE, DIA)

Regions and central government Within regions Business, Maori and local government (REAP Governance Groups) REGIONAL ECONOMIC ACTION PLANS Senior Regional Officials

Senior Wellington-based officials from a range of agencies to work with regional leaders

Regional Growth Programme

• Cooperation & Collaboration
• Partnership is a verb
• Alignment

“Is it hard?' Not if you have the right attitudes. Its having the right attitudes that’s hard.” ― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle

Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values

Regional Growth Programme

• Capacity
• Co-investment
• Navigation

“To see the world this way, as a ceaselessly complex and adaptive system, requires a revolution. It involves changing the role we imagine for ourselves, from architects of a system we can control and manage, to gardeners in a living, shifting ecosystem.”

Joshua Cooper Ramos, “The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us and What We Can Do About It.”

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