Shining the Light on the Third Sector - OVTRK October 2016 update

As part of our work in valuing Third Sector Organisations (TSOs) we'd love to have 5 minutes of your time.  

Please follow this link to fill out the form and answer six simple questions that tell us about your mahi.  

We'll be publishing the results on our blog as part of a series where you get to be the star! 

Collecting these stories was one of the ideas that emerged from the Sector Forum on 9 July - read more of the post on that Forum. and

We have established a new tab on the OVTRK blogspot - see Sector Report & Actions. Do send updates and additions - and keep an eye on these! We are continuing to circulate the Third Sector Recovery in Post-earthquake Christchurch report by Dr Chrys Horn, Sarah Wylie and Janet Mountier.

One Voice Te Reo Kotahi (OVTRK) sits on the Greater ChCh Psychosocial Committee  bringing voices of the Third Sector there. We know we speak from, not for the sector and so if you have any questions you'd like asked or issues raised at the table, please don't hesitate to email us - and / or join the OVTRK Organising Group - see About OVTRK to help us plan next steps. Over the last few months, OVTRK Organising Group member, Becca Bouffandeau has been attending these meetings on our behalf.  She reports that she has found the meetings incredibly informative with many organisations making deputations to the group. One of the current discussions is about the clarification of what is meant by "community-led". 

Urban Development Strategy (UDS) - refresh process

OVTRK encompasses Greater Christchurch as many place-based, identity-based and interest-based NGOs are interested in keeping links with across the wider city.

We also want to make this range of NGOs visible to Greater Christchurch government and commercial Sector. So we made links with the Greater Christchurch UDS Implementation Committee (UDSIC).

We have been informed that the visioning exercise that had been planned in relation to the UDS is on hold because it was recognised that to do that requires more time than was available before the local body elections later this year. The process of "refreshing" the UDS may be undertaken after those elections. In the interim, a small team from the UDS Partner Organisations is pulling together an update on the 2007 UDS.

What do we need to do to further our recovery?

Some detail has been provided of our Sector's responses to the question: 

What do we need to do to further our recovery?

Following the presentation by researcher Dr Chrys Horn to the NGO NETWORKING PARTY (final OVTRK Forum for 2015) on 28 November 2015 Chrys has supplied a more detailed outline than was possible to present at the PARTY:

“ The following are the things that people talked about in the three workshops run as part of CERA’s research into how the Third Sector are faring 5 years on.   They are in response to the question What do we need to do to further our recovery? 

Join the 2015 voice to co-create a vision for Greater Christchurch

The partner organisations involved in the Greater Christchurch Urban Development Strategy are seeking your help to be part of the process and ask you to gift an hour of your time to attend a brief explanation session to learn more at the Canterbury District Health Board's Design Lab. 

You are encouraged to bring a group of colleagues or friends

Use this link to make a booking to visit the Canterbury DHB Design Lab online.

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