HAPPY HOLYDAYS everyone!
Following
the election the OVTRK Organising Group and the Greater Christchurch
Partnership (GCP) committee have now finalised our Working Agreement.
This
is part of the OVTRK commitment to creating meaningful communication
conduits for Third Sector voices so that they shall be heard in
deliberations on Strategy and Policy in Greater Christchurch.
The
recent OVTRK Matariki Forum presentations from Helen Leahy on Whanau
Ora framework and from people in TSOs on environmental, social, cultural
and economic well-beings, and links between them, have been most
useful.
Commitment to an ecological Tiriti o Waitangi-based multicultural future remains our guiding framework.
During the next two weeks we hope to have more to share - watch this space!
Collating resources on Valuing TSOs is continuing - particularly in conversation with Dr Suzanne Vallance, whose generosity we really appreciate.
Sue's
proposed research draws upon literature from systems thinking, social
capital, community development and collaborative governance to identify,
evaluate and facilitate the development of 'soft infrastructure' that
enables different ways of ‘working together’. Innovative examples of
working together include brokers, working groups, charters, MoUs,
programmes and bespoke governance bodies.
Feedback
from TSOs about the interface between Social Enterprise and the Third
Sector as well as about citizenship and Treaty-based development all
raises further points for discussion!
We
continue to promote the need for independent and affordable shared
spaces for Third Sector organisations around Greater Christchurch –
including in the central city. The EnviroHub has almost completed its
scoping report
- see the Sector Report & Actions
which has been updated today!
Do
remember we love your feedback to help shine light on the broad Third
Sector - making connections for us and our children after us! Do
encourage TSOs large and small to make us all visible on the Registry embracing interdependence and maximum autonomy for each of our organisations and those involved in them.
NOTE:
We have been asked to pass on to you that the Long Term Plans for ECan
and for the CCC are open for submission and that the feedback received
on the draft concept for Cathedral Square and surrounding areas can now
be viewed at : engage.regeneratechristchurch.nz .
