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• Kapasa - The Pacific Policy Analysis Tool

  15 September 2022
  Kapasa is a tool for policy makers to incorporate the needs, values, aspirations, and experiences of Pacific peoples in the generic policy development process.…
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• About us

  07 December 2023
  … networks with Pacific communities across the country, as well as our knowledge and understanding of Pacific people, cultures and values, we influence public policy, programme and service decisions affecting Pacific Aotearoa.  
  Pacific values are our anchor, with each generation weaving the foundati…
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• MPP a platform to empower Pacific peoples

  02 April 2022
  Influencing others and decisions through effective policy advice are areas of passion and strength for Viliami Liava'a. 
  The Ministry for Pacific Peoples (MPP) Principal Policy Advisor says helping his family, community, and his people, is what drives him to do the job he does.
  “Here in New Zea…
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• About the Ministry

  13 October 2021
  … networks with Pacific communities across the country, as well as our knowledge and understanding of Pacific people, cultures and values, we influence public policy, programme and service decisions affecting Pacific Aotearoa.  
  Pacific values are our anchor, with each generation weaving the foundati…
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• Our Executive Leadership Team

  06 December 2023
  Tautua is a word in Samoan that expresses the cultural tradition of service to the family or aiga. It can also mean any service of an individual to a greater cause.
  Tautua is reflected in the Samoan proverb — o le ala i le pule o le tautua — the road to leadership is through service. Tautua is a…
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• Public servants are in the job to make a difference 

  05 April 2022
  The inaugural Te taunaki e anga whakamua ai te Ratonga Tūmatanui - 2021 Public Service Census shows public servants are strongly motivated by a spirit of service and are in the job to make a difference for the communities they serve.  
  Most public servants (84 percent) are motivated to stay working…
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• Policy highlights complex lived realities of Pacific Aotearoa

  02 April 2022
  Leilani Unasa feels her “value add” is to help shine a bright and unwavering light on the complex lived realities of Pacific communities, while keeping people in the conversation about what this means across society. 
  Having spent the last 10 months working as the Senior Policy Manager of the Pacifi…
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• Big picture front of mind

  01 April 2022
  … better way for families to access the support they need. Inspired, Rachel began a degree in Social Work, which after a while, left her leaning more towards public policy, she says. Of Samoan and New Zealand European descent, Rachel was born in Christchurch but spent most of her childhood in Dunedin…
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• Tupu Tai alumna sees change as key to making a difference

  12 April 2022
  … Ministry for Pacific Peoples is if people want to see a difference, they need to move differently.  
  Sisifa joined the MPP team as a 2019/2020 Tupu Tai Public Policy Summer Intern, and she affirms her experience at the Ministry has made her proud of the woman she is becoming. 
  The Tupu Tai Public P…
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• Long-term Insights Briefing

  29 May 2025
  The Long-term Insights Briefings (LTIBs) are a new government initiative requiring government agencies to develop and share insights on the trends, risks and opportunities that could affect Aotearoa. LTIBs aim to promote long-term thinking so that the public sector can respond to future change and d…
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