The Just Transition Partnership team

This diagram illustrates how transition planning is supported in New Zealand. The diagram is a pyramid with four layers, representing broad-based transition support at the bottom, and intensive, targeted support at the top.

The base of the pyramid is community led transition planning – this is where the majority of transition planning activity occurs as it is part of a community’s daily challenges.

The second level of the pyramid is where the community comes together but can’t do it alone. Help is often provided through existing programmes, such as from MSD. An example is where a company is laying off workers and worker support is implemented with unions and MSD.

The third level of the pyramid is generally reserved for where a community has completed intensive planning with support from the Just Transition Partnership team and their needs, while still significant, are more self-led as a region works toward implementation of its plans. The team’s role is to provide coaching and advisory support for regional leaders.

At the very top of the pyramid there is the direct support of the Just Transition Partnership team. This is where the team provide intensive support for a region to effectively plan a response to major economic shock, establish a representative partnership that has an agreed vision, and to work alongside other government agencies active in a region to ensure planning and implementation are aligned with central government objectives and funding streams.