Partner with us / Shared stewardship
A national mission.
A place for you.
Help create the partnerships that can mobilise NZ$1 billion each year to keep New Zealand’s natural systems working.
Start a partnership conversation ↗Participation pathways
Different responsibilities.
A shared foundation.
Catchment communities
Bring local priorities, delivery experience and relationships. Help shape a maintenance baseline, a practical funding plan and governance that works for your place.
Start with: a catchment readiness discussion.
Iwi and hapū
Shape the kaupapa, authority, governance and safeguards from the outset. Explore how the architecture can support locally defined aspirations and responsibilities.
Start with: an engagement guided by your priorities and protocols.
Businesses and beneficiaries
Understand the natural systems your operations and value chains depend on. Explore credible contributions linked to maintenance needs and shared benefits.
Start with: an ecosystem dependency assessment.
Banks and investors
Help design financing for beneficiary commitments and long-term catchment stewardship. Examine payment certainty, governance, risk and assurance before structuring capital.
Start with: a stewardship finance design session.
Public and philanthropic funders
Support the enabling work: baseline evidence, local engagement, institutional design and pilot implementation. Help build the capacity needed for durable funding.
Start with: a scoped development partnership.
Research and professional partners
Contribute scientific, spatial, accounting, legal, economic and assurance expertise. Strengthen methods and help make the architecture independently reviewable.
Start with: a defined technical collaboration.
What a partnership involves
Agree the purpose.
Define the contribution.
Report the result.
1. Identify the opportunity
Describe the catchment, dependency, capability or funding objective you bring.
2. Scope a practical next phase
Agree roles, evidence requirements, governance, budget and milestones in a written scope.
3. Build the foundations together
Develop the baseline, beneficiary engagement and institutional pathway before making implementation commitments.
4. Make accountability explicit
Define how funding, activity and outcomes will be tracked and what requires independent assurance.
Partnership principles
Credibility is built into the relationship.
Place and people first. Work with existing catchment organisations and mana whenua, with roles and authority agreed through engagement.
Fair contributions. Consider dependency, capacity, existing investment and the distribution of benefits.
Evidence before claims. Separate proposals, models and commitments from verified delivery and outcomes.
Clear accountability. Maintain transparent use of funds, appropriate oversight and controls against duplicate claims.
Partnership opportunities described here are invitations to collaborate. They do not imply endorsement by any organisation, a completed financing arrangement, or a public investment offer.
Bring us a place, a dependency or a capability.
Email Andrew with your organisation, your connection to the mission and the contribution or question you would like to explore.
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