Community Relationships Category
 Converse 05: The ACYC Urban Youth Summit
The goal of the summit was ... to ensure youth have a voice on issues that affect them and to assist in building their capacity to be able to take leadership towards positive social responsibility and peer support around drugs and related issues.
View the project entry - 05Project - CR - Auckland CC - Urban Youth Summit
The entry also included additional supporting material in several appendices. View the appendices:
05Project - CR - Auckland CC - Urban Youth Summit - APP 1 - Youth and Drugs
05Project - Cr - Auckland CC - Urban youth summit - APP2 - Community Outcomes
05Project - CR - Auckland CC - Urban Youth Summit - APP3 - Project Brief
For more information about the project contact - mike.richardson@aucklandcity.govt.nz
 Community Workshop Series
The workshop series grew out of an identified community need. It was apparent through feedback via differing channels that many community groups had limited knowledge or understanding of some key areas that would enable them to run more effectively.
View the Project - 05Project - CR - Auckland CC - Community Workshop Series
For more information about the project contact - mike.richardson@aucklandcity.govt.nz
 Women's Health Initiatives in Glen Innes
Women’s Health and accessing national screening programmes were identified as an area of high need in Glen Innes. To address these issues a women’s health initiative was developed and implemented in collaboration with Auckland City Council.
View the Project - 05Project - CR- Auckland CC - Womens Health
For more information about the project contact - mike.richardson@aucklandcity.govt.nz
 City Manager's Task Force
Property development is one of the foundation pillars of the community. When the development process fails, it can affect everybody ... Manukau City first became aware of major defects in a number of property developments ... as a result of unrest expressed in public meetings. As a first step, Council approached Audit New Zealand and MWH ...to undertake an audit of its systems and processes. To address the recommendations, the City Manager appointed a well resources high level task force ...
View the Project - 05Project - CR - Manukau CC - City Managers Task Force
Additional material was submitted in support of the entry. You can view Doing It Right - A Property Owner's Guide and Doing It Right Newsletter.
For more information about the project contact - R.Vanhall@manukau.govt.nz
An empowered community in action - Council's approach to community participation that supported the capacity of the Otara community to visualize and own their own development strategy, implementation, monitoring and evaluation processes.
View the Project - 05Project - CR - Manukau CC - Tomorrow's Otara
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 It Starts in Parks
- The It Starts in Parks! programme is the first step in coordinating community engagement across the regional park network. At present, a review of the partnership strategy is underway.This will look at extending current successes to developing recreation and health related programmes in alignment with other organisations.
Unfortunately we have encountered technical difficulties with posting the full entry on the site. We are working to overcome these and hope to add the entry to the site shortly.
For more information about the project contact - catherine.boyle@arc.govt.nz
 Grass Roots Community Consultation
This project was driven initially by the consultation requirements of the Local Government Act 2002, its directive to consult on community outcomes and to make links between community priorities and the activities in the long-term plans of the Council.
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 Positive Ageing New Plymouth
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New Plymouth District Council is responsible for delivering a wide range of services to a ... community of around 70,000 people. A large proportion of our population is aged over 65, with unique requirements for housing, health, transport and social services. In 2003 new Plymouth became the first local authority in New Zealand to commit formally to the principles of the government's positive Ageing Strategy.
View the Project - 05Project - CR - New Plymouth DC - Positive Ageing New Plymouth
For more information about the project contact - kopub@npdc.govt.nz
Managing Flood Risks on the Thames Coast
It was called the "weather bomb". And it effects were just as damaging ...Something had to be done urgently to reduce risks to life and property, stabilise stream and river channels and reduce erosion and debris. ...It was recognised early that an integrated to the problems would be needed and that effective community and agency collaboration would be crucial.
View the Project - 05Project - CR - Env W & TCDC - Managing Flood Risks on the Thames Coast
For more information on the project contact - adam.munro@ew.govt.nz
 Waitakere Online
Under the new framework outlined in the Local Government Act 2002, local authorities in New Zealand are faced with the important challenge on working increasingly closely with their communities, working in partnership to deliver real community outcomes ... The creation of a portal web site to serve all the people of Waitakere was one of the first projects that the community identified...
View the Project - 05Project - CR - Waitakere CC - Waitakere On-line
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For more information about the project contact -Rochelle.Edwards@waitakere.govt.nz
 Amberley Concept Development Plan
The Amberley Concept Plan is a community owned and developed document describing how Amberley’s residents and ratepayers would like to see their community in the future
View the project - 05Project - CR - Hurunui DC - Amberly Development Plan
For more information about the project contact - naomi.woodham@hurunui.govt.nz
 School Programmes H20 Xtream
The benefits for both local and non local schools have been tremendous. H20 Xtream offers professional Learn to swim lessons and water safety courses that include boat, surf and river safety. The programme is based around the strands of the school curriculum and enables teachers to easily assess children’s progress while lessons are being delivered by qualified learn to swim teachers.
View the Project - 05Project - CR - Upper Hutt CC - H20 Xtream
For more information about the project contact - Sue.kuester@uhcc.govt.nz
Businesses Behind Books
Several South Taranaki businessmen are keen to boost the Science and Math sections of the STDC libraries with books that will entice and inspire young readers into a greater enjoyment of these subjects. ... The advantages of this scheme are that by encouraging children into the scientific and maths areas, future employment opportunities would open up for both the children and the employers.
View the Project - 05Project - CR - STDC - Businesses Behind Books
For more information about this project contact - pamela.jones@stdc.govt.nz
 You Are Entering a Liquor Ban Area
A Liquor Ban is becoming a common tactic to make Central Business Areas and Holiday Resorts, safer places for everyone to have a good time. ... Our idea was to use big road marking signs to indicate where the Liquor Ban areas began.
View the Project - 05Project - CR - Whakatane DC - Liquor Ban
For more information on the project contact - peterlander@whakatane.govt.nz
 Enhancing Community Relationships
Our LTCCP needed to be developed so that it represented the agreement between the community of the Waimate District and our Council as to how the community should develop to meet the community's own citizens wished, and the part the Council will play in meeting those objectives.
View the Project - 05Project - CR - Waimate DC - Enhancing Community Relations
For more information about the project contact - lynda@waimatedc.govt.nz
 Recipes for Success
Recipes for Success was designed to boost participation of the Districts community in one of the Council's key community planning processes.
View the Project - 05Project - CR - Far North DC - Recipes for Success.pdf
For more information about the project contact - ian.sivyer@fndc.govt.nz
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- Full list of entries by Category
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- Commendation and Category Winners
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