Community Collectives
What is a Community Collective?
It is a collaboration of groups/organisations and agencies whose focus is on the community. The 'community' defines what its needs and its aspirations are and together seek to lead positive change.
A Community Collective empowers communities to make decisions that impact on them. It's geographic boundaries, its roles and functions, its infrastructure and all decision-making is determined by the members of the Collective. It is a 'movement' - not an entity and therefore has the freedom to respond to its diverse needs. The collaboration is built on the collective membership's contribution which may consist of time, materials, funding, services, resources etc to ensure that the Collective operates effectively to meet the needs of the Community.
What will the Taskforce assist communities do?
The Taskforce has developed a Community Collective Toolkit to help groups/organisations and agencies develop Community Collectives. If the Community Collective operates under Tiriti/Treaty relationship model, the National Development Manager will come to your community and provide advice and support in:
- the implementation of the Tiriti/Treaty relationship model
- the establishment of a Steering Group
- the establishment of a Terms of Reference for the Group
- seeking additional support from your local Department of Internal Affairs and Te Puni Kokiri.
- providing templates
- any other capacity required.
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