Kāwanatanga ‘Future Search’ Feb 2022: Panel - Waiheke FS Participants
Channel: Sustainable Seas National Science Challenge
Date: 2022-03-16

In February 2022, the Enabling kaitiakitanga and EBM project hosted an online workshop for four key Aotearoa New Zealand government agencies.



The project has partnered with target audiences from across the whole system, drawing on the Three Spheres of Influence framework, presented in the Report of Matike Mai Aotearoa – The Independent Working Group on Constitutional Transformation (2016).


Research partners are working to understand key barriers, identify potential opportunities, and co-develop tools that will better enable holistic care and use of our moana (ie Kaitiakitanga and EBM); contributing to the enhancement of the mauri and mana of our environment and ourselves.


The workshop was an opportunity for key agencies to consider a methodology for systems-focused action-planning, called Future Search.


As part of the workshop, a panel of participants who experienced the Waiheke Marine Project Future Search in 2020 shared their perspectives and experiences with the Kāwanatanga (New Zealand government agencies). Each panelist provided a brief kōrero, followed by a collective Q&A session.


Panellists
Alex Rogers – Executive Officer, Hauraki Gulf Forum
Dr Andrew Jeffs – Senior scientist and member of the Auckland Conservation Board
Matt von Sturmer – Waiheke Island resident, fisherman, and business owner
Pippa Coom – Councillor for Waitematā and Gulf Ward and Co-Chair of the Hauraki Gulf Forum
Lucy Tukua – Ngāti Paoa and Ngāti Whanaunga descent with whakapapa ties to Tāmaki Makaurau including Waiheke Island, member of the Hauraki Māori Trust Board and Kaihautū Whakarito (Technical Director Regenerative Outcomes) for global consultancy firm Mott MacDonald

Co-Facilitators
Miranda O'Connell, Folkus Ltd. 
Dr Dan Hikuroa, University of Auckland