Kaitiakitanga - Guardianship of tthe environment that supports us

Our Program Progress Log:

This will be a chronological log for the program outlining trigger events, decisions made and milestones achieved, so the program will be totally transparent to all.

Progress Log

Date

Details of event or action

22/03/03

Mind map SWOT on possums with Te Whaiti Kura senior class

Filming in Whirinaki to hook in to environmental aspects of Tipu Ake and Possum skins

26/04/03

Tipu Ake WS at Raglan - resulted in new Visioning page in Model Whirinaki Example

05/07/03

After a meeting with Gen, Chris, Andy B, Andy K got some Kaitiakitanga ideas together and Submitted Kura's Kaitiakitanga application to Enterprise fund fronted by Earl Rewi

../08/03

Started getting URL's for Whirinaki sites and putting some site ideas together

14/09/03

Meeting with Rununga to get support for Tipu Ake Kaitiakitanga and adding Ngati Whare site as well

05/12/03

Meeting at Kura with Chris, Gen, Josie, AndyK, Peter, David (US) Decided to go for it despite funding delays. Also decided it was a project that needed community so spoke with Cine, Tony, AndyB etc

20/12/03

Advised by Shirley Pike Manager Enterprise and Skills Dev Fund that $100k funding awarded to the project

16/01/04

Community field trip to Whaingaroa Environment Group at Raglan to gather ideas

25/01/04

Split websites - add program / project leadership / management procedures to www.kaitiakitanga.net

31/01/04

Opening of merged Kura - with politicians and others attending, draws attention to the project.

Kura

02/02/04

Project meeting with Shirley Pike, Hinurewa Te Hau and Helen Fletcher(Maori and the Rotorua district) at Kura including Andy K, Cine, Earl, Hiraina, Chris, James, Peter, (visitors Andree, Madeleine, apologies Tony H, Andy B-DOC).

03/02/04

Follow up with Earl, Chris and others confirmed Kaitiakitanga must start from within the community ( the biggest risk) and root itself around its kaupapa, from which enterprise activities will naturally grow.

09/03/04

Andree Mathieu presented at ICANZ Sustainability Group - weaving in Tipu Ake and Kaitiakitanga

19/03/04

Tipu Ake / Kaitiakitanga retreat got external support network and more ideas around the project.

Many

29/04/04

Change of plan required as Earl's work prevents him being Project Manager for the funder interface. Action needed as their confidence in program is falling

02/05/04

Kaumatua / Community meeting - fully committed to Kaitiakitanga Program , Videos provided for information and a team representing all local groups to be set up to manage it within two weeks - A Learning Community Coordinator to be established in Kokiri Centre as interface.

whole community

25/05/04

Community Hui - thanks to facilitators Hinurewa Te Hau and Waana Davis, NZ Trade and Enterprise for their encouragement and helping us clarify our kaupapa. We now have clear steps ahead to finalise funding so we can accelerate our program.

All

05/06/04

Community Hui at Marae Committee meeting at Te Whaiti to consolitate program structure, confirm kaupapa and plan ahead. James Carlson nominated to be the Interim Coordinator to mobilise local effort to select priority projects, finalise the funding contract ready for the quarter starting July 2004 and be the interface with our funding partners. Peter Goldsbury reverting to a background and external support role but returning on 14-16 June to meet with a team and help with detailed project planning tools and budgeting.

06/06/04

Earl Rewi, James Goldsmith and Claude August sent to by our community to present Tipu Ake and Kaitiakitanga at www.sharing indigenouswisdom.org conference in Wisconsin, returning via Lopez Island a fragile marine location north of Seattle area as guests of County Commissioner Rhea Miller and Sandy Bishop who recently attended a Tipu Ake retreat in Te Whaiti.

14/05/04

Meeting of volunteers called to carry out detailed design for priority projects and prepare budget for next quarter. An enthusiastic team had to resolve some outstanding issues regarding governance and leadership of the project.

15/06/04

A group spent the day doing detailed planning for the Nursery project which resulted in a clear vision and a roadmap for its development. Similar roadmaps presented for Multimedia, Building concept plan and external network projects.

22/06/05

Key program team members called together to complete detailed nursery planning and budgeting

24/06/04

Thanks to Shirley Pike and Hinurewa Te Hau, for meeting with Earl Rewi, Pene Ohlsen, Jimmy Goldsmith, Timoti Mc Mannus, Chris Eketone and Andy Blick to finalise the program for the next quarter. With the merge now well underway, the Kura to again take up the role of Contract Holder as per the original application and involve students heavily in 2005 work. Agreed on program vision and have a clear path forward. The funding contract is to be processed urgently as it is needed to allow projects, including the UNITEC Architecture Students, to start moving in July.

ER and team

30/06/04

Shirley Pyke off for the month funding contract delayed. Strategic Expertise advanced funds to allow UNITEC Architecture Student semester program to start with the exploratory design hui on 23-25 July.

25/07/04

Project budget spreadsheet revised slightly in the light of UNITEC project and other information. To be submitted to funders this week.

ER/PG

26/07/04

Website information updated with active project details

24/08/04

Our co-funding partner Strategic Expertise continuing to advance funds to allow UNITEC to proceed but no longer prepared to expose itself to this ongoing risk.

24/08/04

Unable to locate NZTE support person suggested to help collate detail for contract, so we resubmitted our own well established web based program management and budget documentation as the funding is now urgent. Confusion arose between the wholistic and organic nature of the Kaitiakianga Program and NZTE desire to fund just a single enterprise project.

Nov 04

Local team and community frustrated by delays and hassles in processing the TZTE funding contract so divert their efforts back onto other priorities. The Kura with it's building programme in full swing decides it does not have the energy to be involved with administration of the funding contract but still supports all learning activities where it and the children can be involved.

Dec 04

As the now completed UNITEC study and immediate active projects involve mainly the village, the NZTE funding contract now to to be processed via the Minginui Village Council led by Andy Blick. This again raised reasonable community and Runanga concerns as to whether this is the best long term solution. This took the program to the undercurrents where we let things float to let the issues surface and ideas germinate to find a new growth path forward.

10/12/05

Old compound OSH closure re possible toxin and asbestos hazard delays planned progress on some projects including involving children in construction activities over the summer holiday.

28/01/05

Meeting at Minginui Shirley Pyke, Jennifer Pearson (new Local NZTE coordinator) Andy Blick, Pene Olsen, Raewyn Araroa, James Carlson ( part time) and Peter Goldsbury to finalise contract arrangements with Minginui Council, who will invoice for funds to reimburse agreed UNITEC expenses. Jennifer to work with community to specify a project path for a "Te Whaiti Project" that meets the NZTE enterprise agenda (a subset of the Kaitiakitanga Program)

All

Feb 05

The Kaitiakitanga Program grows independently accross the community at its own pace, with more information about other activities that are being done locally and with other partners being added to the website (Web costs agreed to be covered as koha by Strategic Expertise Ltd) . Peter Goldsbury, subject to community wishes, will continue to work externally to help find opportunities, network connections, support, koha and funding to grow more innovative Kaitiakitanga activities proposed by any group in the community, and help the community share its journey and values, unconstrained by NZTE / Government criteria and timescales.