Staff training and impact assessment and stakeholder consultation
We provide training in social impact assessment, community consultation, and the assessment of effects. We have done this work both in New Zealand and in the Pacific. We have also been responsible for training staff employed in our overseas projects to undertake the tasks expected of them.
Examples
Local Government Act: Implications for Central Government
Advice to the Ministry of Social Development on the implications for government agencies of the new Local Government Act 2002. This included representing the Ministry on working parties established by Local Government New Zealand to prepare guidelines for all local authorities on understanding and implementing the Act.
Also:
- Training courses in consultation for specific government departments and for central and local government employees through the Victoria University short course programme. In 2006 this course is included with credits in the Masters of Public Policy course (MPP).
- Training sessions for several local authorities and professional bodies on methods for feasibility studies, community participation and consultation.
- Training courses throughout the country for local authority planners, private companies and professional groups on the assessment of effects under the Resource Management Act (sponsored by the Ministry for the Environment).
- Annual lectures on Social Impact Assessment and Community Consultation to students of the Sociology, Social Work, and Geography Departments at Victoria University, Wellington (between 1990 and 1994).