Building engagement and empowerment
Ope (noun) army, troop, party, entourage, contingent - group of people moving together. Ope is an Auckland Council programme to help connect Enviroschools and the community around waste reduction and climate change activities. Rākau Tautoko practitioners Tara, Carla and Haare are working in partnership with Tāmaki WRAP Community Activators Sarah, Kristine and Sam to engage with …
Rākau Tautoko was approached by the Infrastructure and Environmental Services team at Auckland Council to facilitate community engagement workshops with key community stakeholders in Maungakiekie-Tāmaki, to seek feedback about their climate action priorities. We held two online workshops in March 2022 which focused on gathering community input towards identifying goals, barriers and priorities around climate …
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Note - the following is part of the full report, to see the full report please click here. Rākau Tautoko was approached by the Auckland Council Waste Solutions Team to facilitate a focus group series throughout specific geographical areas, to seek feedback on the new Pay as You Throw system that was due to be …
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Working alongside Auckland Council Waste Solution Team, Jasmine Hope and Tara Moala created a focus group series for South Auckland community members to learn about the Pay As You Throw (PAYT) System. Part of our focus groups, we helped participants to learn about the different waste systems, and then share their thoughts on what they …
Working alongside a collective of amazing community food distributors during COVID19 lockdown has been an amazing experience for Rākau Tautoko. We have been very lucky to have received a grant from Foundation North to delivery kai support to our more in need whānau through Alert Level 3. Over this time, we decided to throw Business …
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Maungakiekie/Tamaki Working in partnership with Tāmaki WRAP, we ran a total of 10 x capability building workshops and 11 x community events throughout 2020 - in between each of the lockdowns. Funding was sourced by the Maungakiekie-Tāmaki Local Board who graciously extended our timeframe out to the end of 2020, in recognition of all of …
Nikki has been facilitating community capability building workshops in the Tāmaki Maungakiekie Local Board area to support waste based social enterprise development. Five workshops have been held in Tamaki covering understanding business models, employment and contracting requirements, waste based community networking, tax requirements, marketing and promotion, building a business collective and taking advantage of the current …
Our funders wanted to research and document how Tāmaki residents would like to learn about Living Lightly - making lifestyle choices to save money, and have a healthier life and planet. This was then followed by a small pilot programme to test the thoughts gathered in the research phase. We held three community focus groups enabled key …
Tara and Nikki worked together on the Reclaim Project to grow the community of waste based social enterprises through out both Maungakiekie and Tāmaki. This project included, Coordinating the key organisations involved in the project Build Tamaki WRAP’s experience and capacity in establishing and operating community-led resource recovery initiatives and enterprise in the area as …
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