About the Taskforce

   

Pancha Narayanan

Pancha Narayanan came to New Zealand as a post graduate student in 1986. He manages a small management consulting firm providing business and service transformation consultancy to private and public sector organisations.

Pancha has also been a volunteer in the communities since his student days as an individual and as a member of volunteer groups to assist other migrants and refugees settle well in New Zealand. His volunteering roles include, language teaching, volunteer firefighting, settlement guide, community researcher, community counsellor. He has been a volunteer through the Ethnic Councils since 1990. He comes to the Community Sector Taskforce from having led the New Zealand Federation of Multicultural Councils in the last six years. During his leadership the Federation had made significant contribution including:

  • Increase in the number of member Councils from 13 – 21 now with a reach to nearly 750 000 New Zealanders.
  • Seminary research through collaboration with Universities that has influenced Government policies
  • Long lasting Relations Agreements between the Federation and a number of Government Agencies and other Tangata Whenua, Community & Voluntary Sector organisations.
  • A credible basis for a Treaty based Multicultural New Zealand supported by appropriate legislation
  • Leadership frameworks work migrant refugee women and youth
  • Capacity Building Strategies in migrant and refugee communities that has now been adopted by the Office of Ethnic Affairs and other agencies.

He attributes all these achievements to the tenacity, courage and wisdom that exists in the various communities in New Zealand in their endeavour to keep this country as one of the most caring and peaceful nations on earth.