In June 2017, Bay of Plenty Regional Council was the first local authority in the country to receive an iwi authority Mana Whakahono a Rohe invitation. Council’s Maori policy team leader Anaru Vercoe details steps taken and learnings to date.
In April 2017 the National Government released a suite of changes to the Resource...
Does ‘ticking the Maori box’ make a difference? Kataraina O’Brien and Fiona McTavish are from the Bay of Plenty Regional Council, the first council in the country to set up Maori constituencies. Thirteen years after the first Maori councillors were elected, the council’s model remains an outlier in typical council-iwi relations....
At the 2016 LGNZ EXCELLENCE Awards
Air New Zealand Excellence Award for Environmental Impact.
Highly Commended: Bay of Plenty Regional Council's 'Ohiwa Harbour Strategy Implementation'.
Bay of Plenty Regional Council’s innovative Ohiwa Harbour Strategy (OHS) implementation project won praise from judges for using a collaborative...
