Central region

The central region team is based in the Wellington office and covers the following areas:

Wellington (central), the greater Wellington region (Porirua, Lower Hutt, Upper Hutt, Kapiti Coast), Wairarapa (Masterton), Manawatu (Palmerston North), Hawkes Bay (Napier / Hastings), Taranaki (New Plymouth), Whangnui, South Waikato (Taupo) and Poverty Bay (Gisborne).

We work closely with the regional offices, based in Christchurch and Auckland, and the national regional manager to share information and resources and maintain a national consistency of services.

We also support the Ministry's vision by connecting government agencies or services with local communities; holding community information meetings or fono; providing specialist advice to government agencies on Pacific issues; encouraging Pacific people to access services and funding support.

Central region focus

The current focus for the central region is to:

• Establish a weekly e-newsletter, starting in February 2011, as a regular way of communicating to the central region;
• Establish working relationships and networks with Pasifika communities in the region by June 2011;
• Devise a three-year community engagement plan (2011 – 2013) for the central region to be completed by February 2011;
• Raise awareness of the Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs' activities, support and resources within the central region.

Our e-newsletter & events calendar

To enhance communications between government and the Pacific community the central region compiles a weekly e-newsletter.

Our weekly e-newsletter keeps you informed with what is happening in the Pacific community by listing events, important information, links to resources and announcements from both central and local government.

Pacific community organisations can also use this e-newsletter to publicise events.  It is distributed to our growing database of Pacific people.

Read the latest weekly newsletter

Events calendar April - June 2011

Our staff

  Meet our central region team

You can contact the central regional manager directly if you want to discuss the work of the Ministry, a possible partnership project, providing services to Pacific people or just want to be added to the regular ‘central regional e-newsletter’ mailing list. 

Anton Carter
Central regional manager
anton.carter@mpia.govt.nz

Telephone: 04 473 4493
Fax: 04 473 4301
Email: contact@mpia.govt.nz