Our Strategy
Our Vision
An inclusive Aotearoa New Zealand where refugee-background and migrant communities can thrive.
Our Mission
Driving transformational change that improves inclusion, belonging and wellbeing for refugee-background and migrant communities.
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Convening, building partnerships and providing backbone support for initiatives that increase our sector’s collective impact and influence, to build sustainable conditions for change. Developing alliances and movements with communities beyond our sector to tackle racism, discrimination, and other shared root causes of exclusion and inequity.
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Developing and testing innovative new pathways, practices and solutions to enable more equitable access to opportunities in key issue areas, including employment and income. Ensuring data and insights are more directly connected to solutions.
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Deepening our engagement with and connection to the community to understand and grow visibility of the lived realities of exclusion.
Building confidence and capacity to engage in community and with support services, for those with the least access, including women and children.
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Supporting community leadership, building capability, connecting and platforming lived expertise to decision-makers, to amplify influence. Placing real lives, experiences and expertise at the centre – by, for and with community.
Our Guiding Principles
Te Tiriti Centred
Our role as Tangata Tiriti and support of Te Tiriti o Waitangi as the foundation for Aotearoa being a place to belong.
Equity Driven
Equity for and within our communities, prioritising those experiencing most marginalisation, with an understanding of intersectional and intergenerational barriers to inclusion, belonging and wellbeing.
Transformative
Lasting change through addressing the root causes of exclusion and the systems that perpetuate them.
Our Impact Goals 2025 - 2028
A more connected and collaborative refugee and migrant sector.
Collective advocacy priorities (short- and long-term) supported by evidence and insights.
Strategic and community-informed advocacy on shared priority issues (within our sector and cross-sector).
Increased visibility and influence of community leaders and voices.
Improved income and employment opportunities and pathways for former refugees and new migrant communities.
Action and progress on innovation and system change opportunities.
Stronger trust-based relationships and connections with grassroots communities.
Strengthened connections and capability to access support and opportunities for those with the least access.
More Tiriti-centred practice across Belong Aotearoa initiatives and partnerships.