Appendix 1 – Telephone Questionnaire

Review of Iwi Management Plans

Telephone Questionnaire

Iwi or hapū organisation represents:

Contact details:

• Phone:
• Email:

Kia ora.

My name is __________ from KCSM Consultancy Solutions. Our company is currently conducting a review to assess and evaluate the effectiveness of Iwi Management Plans. We are contacting all iwi in the country and all organisations known to have an Iwi Management Plan.

Does your organisation have an Iwi or Hapū Management Plan to deal with environmental issues?

Does your organisation have an Iwi or Hapū Management Plan to deal with environmental issues?

Yes No

If no, do you know of any other organisation in your rohe that does have an environmental or resource management plan?

Who should I speak to about the plan?

(At this point, if you are referred to another person, you would start at the top again. Once you think you have found the right person to talk to, you would continue here.)

As part of a wider focus on improving the effectiveness of Māori participation in the management and use of natural resources the Ministry for the Environment (MfE) has commissioned KCSM Consultancy Solutions to undertake a review of Iwi Management Plans and in particular to investigate if they are meeting the expectations of both the iwi who have developed them and the relevant local authorities. We are contacting all iwi in the country to determine how widely Iwi Management Plans have been developed and used.

KCSM Consultancy Solutions is a Māori research and development company based in Opotiki and Hamilton – more information about us is available from our website – www.kcsmsolutions.com. We are committed to supporting iwi development including involvement in environmental management processes.

This telephone survey will take approximately 10 minutes and asks questions about –

• the development of your plan

• the usefulness of your plan, and

• the effectiveness of your plan and other resource management processes you have been involved with on your organisation’s participation in resource management processes.

Would you like to participate in this telephone survey?

Please feel free to ask any questions. You may discontinue the survey at any time. All answers that you provide will remain confidential to KCSM Consultancy Solutions. Only aggregated data from all participants will be made available in the report to the Ministry for the Environment.

Interviewee:

Position:

What area/rohe does your iwi (hapū) cover?

Does your organisation have an Iwi Management Plan: No (Go to question 1) Yes (go to Question 5)

ANSWER = No

1. Does your organisation intend to develop an iwi management plan at some time in the future?
   Yes No
2. On a scale of one to five, how high on your organisation’s priority list is this task? (1 being low priority and 5 being high priority)
   1 2 3 4 5
3. Why has your organisation not developed one in the past?
4. Are there hapū in your rohe who have an environmental or resource management plan? Who are they and do you have any contact details?
   (Go to closing statement)

ANSWER = Yes

5. When was the plan developed?
6. Who developed it?
7. Is your plan limited to environmental issues? What other areas does it cover?
8. Why was the plan prepared?
9. Did you receive assistance to develop your plan? From whom? What kind of assistance? (Financial, expertise, contracted out)

Effectiveness

10. On a scale of 1 – 5, has your organisation and iwi’s participation in resource consent issues improved as a result of your IMP? (1 for no improvement to 5 for huge improvement)
    1 2 3 4 5
    Please explain how your organisation’s participation has improved?
11. On a scale of 1 – 5, how useful has your Iwi Management Plan been in clarifying and prioritising environmental issues for your organisation and iwi? (1 for no use at all to 5 for extremely useful)
    1 2 3 4 5
12. On a scale of 1 – 5, how effective was the development of your Iwi Management Plan as a capacity building exercise for your organisation and iwi? (1 for totally ineffective to 5 for extremely effective)
    1 2 3 4 5
13. On a scale of 1 – 5, is your IMP still relevant to the iwi’s aspirations for the environment? (1 for not relevant at all to 5 for extremely relevant)
    1 2 3 4 5
14. On a scale of 1 – 5, has your organisation’s relationship and involvement with district council(s) improved as a result of your IMP? (1 for no improvement to 5 for huge improvement)
    1 2 3 4 5
15. On a scale of 1 – 5, has your organisation’s relationship and involvement with regional council improved as a result of your IMP? (1 for no improvement to 5 for huge improvement)
    1 2 3 4 5
16. On a scale of 1 – 5, has your IMP made a difference to district plans? (1 for no difference to 5 for huge difference)
    1 2 3 4 5
    To regional plans? (1 for no difference to 5 for huge difference)
    1 2 3 4 5

Outcomes

17. What are the outcomes of your organisation having an IMP?
18. What has improved as a result of your organisation developing the IMP?
19. Given the opportunity, would your organisation develop another IMP?
    Yes No
    Why or why not?
20. Given the opportunity, what would you have done differently to improve your IMP?
21. What other processes, strategies or initiatives has your organisation been involved with that have had an effect on your iwi’s participation in resource and environmental management processes? (rate from 1 – no effect to 5 for very positive effect)
    As part of the research process we are also conducting in-depth interviews with a sample of iwi who have IMPs as well as reviewing their Iwi Management Plans. This will involve a face-to-face interview with myself or another colleague and some analysis of your Iwi Management Plan.
22. Would you be willing to be contacted again to participate in a face-to-face interview?
    Yes No
    Thank you – I may ring you back to arrange for a time to meet.
23. Would your organisation agree to providing a copy of your Iwi Management Plan as part of the Review? We will meet any copying and postage charges.
    Yes No

Thank you for agreeing to participate in this questionnaire. All information provided is kept confidential to KCSM Consultancy Solutions. Reports provided to the Ministry for the Environment will only include aggregated data and references to the sample of iwi interviewed and whose IMP has been reviewed will not identify individual people or organisations.

My contact details are __________ Please feel free to contact me if you have any other queries.

Thanks again for your participation.