OVTRK SUBMISSION on Greater Christchurch REGENERATION BILL

Submission from

One Voice Te Reo Kotahi (OVTRK) onevoicetereokotahi.blogspot.co.nz

We support a new, Community Initiatives Plan to allow NGO voices in Greater Christchurch to:

• be heard

• be informed

• be enabled to work together

• contribute to work done on Frameworks for Treaty-based, multicultural development where the indigenous status of tangata whenua and the role of tangata Tiriti (everyone else) are understood. 

OVTRK submission on the Transition to Regeneration Plan now ready

Our OVTRK Organising Group submission the Transition to Regeneration Plan is now ready.   

Read it here

Action Station also has a quick way to add your support to Local Led Recovery in Christchurch,

If you would like to support it please 

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Remember submissions must be in by 5pm tomorrow, Thursday 30 July.

CCC Long Term Plan Update

In our last OVTRK Update we referred to our submission on the Christchurch City Council Long Term Plan (LTP). 

We are pleased to report that this was followed by a request to the OVTRK Organising Group (OG) for a conversation with their Community Governance Unit staff Mary Richardson and Stacey Holborough. That conversation occurred on 29 June and we will follow up. 

Christchurch Recovery Plan - have your say

Your feedback  to this is needed by Thursday 2pm 9 July 

OVTRK has been given the opportunity to make a presentation on 10 July to the Greater Christchurch Urban Development Strategy Implementation Committee (UDSIC).  

Submissions to Long Term Plan 2015

CCC-based NGOs have been busy with submissions on the CCC Long Term Plan. 

OVTRK did a submission OneVoice Te Reo Kotahi Submission (OVTRK)

Settle in with some reading (and help us communicate your priorities)

Kia ora!  We just shared several bits of information with NGOs on our registry, including a few that involve feedback.  We've shared some of that information below.  If you'd like to know more but aren't on the registry, first join the registry and then get in touch with us.

Key issues highlighted by OVTRK registrants
OVTRK NGOs have been actively expressing their views to CERA, the media, and each other.  We thought we'd highlight a few particular issues of interest to the wider registry.  One has to do with the process that has surrounded CanCERN's work in the red zone.  Another is commentary from Sustainable Otautahi Christchurch on the feasibility of the Christchurch Central Recovery Plan.  We've also heard from many on our registry about the challenges related to accommodation-- and these viewpoints were recently featured in a Press article.  We are doing our best to keep abreast of these issues (and others!) so that the panNGO delegates can better communicate the challenges being faced by the sector at future Community Wellbeing Planning Group forums.  (Note: links to the CanCERN and SOC items were sent to NGOs on our registry).

Information from the CERA Community Wellbeing Planners Group
At recent meetings with the CERA CWPG, the panNGO delegates have been receiving updates about the residential advisory service, the winter resilience projects, and the community wellbeing programmes of works.  Representatives from each of these areas briefly report back at the meetings on new developments or trends.

What we think may be of the greatest interest to the sector as this point in time is the Canterbury Wellbeing Index that is being finalised.  The document isn't ready for circulation yet, but the delegates have been given the option of sharing feedback from the sector.  With the help of the support panel, we will be able to make some comment.  Additional information has been circulated to NGOs on our registry.

New: Information about the Psychosocial Wellbeing Committee and Plan

The panNGO delegate support panel received a request from CERA for the delegates to also participate in the Psychosocial Subcommittee.  Our team believes these meetings could be useful, but there has been some concern around the capacity of our delegates to attend both.  In response to invitation, the panNGO support panel answered with the following:

On behalf of the panNGO Support Panel I would like to thank you for offering our CWP delegation representation on the Psychosocial committee. 

The panNGO Support Panel would like to accept the offer to provide delegates to the Psychosocial Committee.  Due to the voluntary workload expectations on delegates from the NGO sector we, as a Support Panel for our NGO delegation, wish to reserve the right to determine who the delegates will be.

 We will endeavour to ensure that we provide representative coverage at both the CWP and Psychosocial committee hui.

We did make the decision to send our delegates to at least the first meeting after they received the invitation.  During this meeting, it was announced that the final copy of the Greater Christchurch Strategic Psychosocial Plan needed to go through consultation until 7-June.  We've made the draft document available to NGOs on our registry, and would ask that you reply using the consultation form provided by CERA.  If you have any further questions on this, please let us know. 

LURP submission
Many thanks to the people who attended our LURP workshop.  We've had excellent feedback from the facilitators and attendees alike.  

That's all for now, everyone.  We will be in touch with you again soon!

LURP submission

Kia ora tatou,

This is the One Voice Te Reo Kotahi submission to the Land Use Recovery Plan that came out of the forum on Saturday 20-April.

LURP Submission from One Voice Te Reo Kotahi

This submission is to forward some from themes from the One Voice Te Reo Kotahi (OVTRK) Forum which was called to discuss and coordinate responses from NGOs in the light of the OVTRK kaupapa, to the preliminary draft LURP.

18 people attended and 11 apologised.

The NGOs represented: Spokes, Engineers for Social Responsibility, Eastern Vision, Purau Residents’ Group, Mt Pleasant Residents’ Association, NZ Association for Environmental Education, ChCh Resettlement Services, The VIVA Project, Public Health Association, Network Waitangi Otautahi, Mental Health Education and Research Centre, YWCA, ChCh Women’s Centre, National Council of Women, Avon Otakaro Network Association, Sustainable Otautahi Christchurch, Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society, Selwyn Water Management Committee, The VIVA Project, Canterbury Communities’ Earthquake Recovery Network and Eastern Vision

Apologies from those unable to be present: SuperGrans, Problem Gambling Association, Barnardos, Te Whare Roimata, Canterbury Workers’ Educational Association, Christchurch Migrants Centre and the Council of Social Services, Third Age Forum

OVTRK is a no-cost opportunity to register Non Government Organisations (NGOs) as being interested in working with other NGOs in greater Christchurch according to our kaupapa.

OVTRK is independent and speaks from the “NGO” sector – the Third Sector – allowing the voices of organisations that have not been formed by Government or Commerce to be heard.

Website: onevoicetereokotahi.blogspot.co.nz

Submission themes:

This submission is to address the question on page 11 of the draft LURP – “What needs to change ... to enable the rebuilding and recovery of greater Christchurch?”

·        Reservations about how the many recovery plans will be reintegrated to inform a cohesive Urban Plan for Greater Christchurch – and the transparency around this process of integration

·        Communication process used to ensure the diverse voice of all residents in the Greater Christchurch area.

·        The engagement and participation of the community by their specific stakeholder partner to the LURP such as CCC, has been severely compromised by the short time frame for the consultation process and the lack of direct contact with resident associations and other key community organisations.

·        With Greenfield developments aimed at 42,000 houses, the current trend (already started) will be to develop these in preference to brownfield and inner city areas. This will be highly undesirable, not least when the high probability of much higher costs for transport fuels in the near future (Peak Oil) will be likely to render these developments uneconomic soon after they are built.

·        Support, facilitate and enable community leadership engagement and participation.

·        CERA and TAs to co-ordinate and integrate existing agency commitments to empowerment of local populations including support for use of recognized public participation values & processes at a local, district & regional level.

·        CERA & TAs to co-ordinate, integrate & simplify communications to ensure accessibility to & understanding by all communities & social groups

·        CERA & TAs to review time frames to ensure an optimal balance of effective public engagement and efficient timetabling.

·        CERA monitors and reports on these engagement processes & programmes to ensure that a shared sense of vision is developed; also that guidances, rules & plans are consistent with achieving this vision.

On behalf of the attendees at the One Voice Te Reo Kotahi Forum on 20 April 2013

OVTRK Co Chairs

Dora Langsbury and Katherine Peet

22 April 2013