Our tauira (students) are our future workforce. They hold the potential to help alleviate some of the skills shortage pressures being felt across many sectors in our region.

Manahua te mānehurangi – Take charge of your destiny.

The Food and Beverage Project produces guides to investment opportunities in the New Zealand food and beverage sector.

The glossary contains te reo Māori words and phrases that are commonly used in the Action Plan.

The actions in the Action Plan are split into immediate actions, medium-term actions and long-term actions.

Our kaimahi, employers, whānau, and mokopuna are worth investing in. Creating better skills and training opportunities, and employment outcomes for our people will take a collective effort. In some cases, it would be helped by resourcing from different parts of government.

As the Manawatū-Whanganui Regional Skills Leadership Group we are driven to create prosperous outcomes for our people through identifying and supporting better ways of meeting future regional skills and workforce needs.

Māori thrive in workplaces with good conditions and are free from discrimination.

Kānoa - Regional Economic Development & Investment Unit (Kānoa - RDU) was established in 2018 within the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment to support delivery of government funding to enhance economic development opportunities in regional New Zealand.