Greater Wellington's contribution

The role of Greater Wellington in furthering community outcomes can take a number of forms. For example, it can take on the roles of:

Advocate	trying to persuade others to act
Facilitator	bringing various parties together to carry out an activity
Educator	providing information and advice

Greater Wellington can also take on more direct roles of a:

Funder	making a financial investment in a programme
Service Provider	carrying out a programme using the Council’s own resources
Regulator	developing and enforcing rules
Monitor	gathering information

In some cases Greater Wellington will be involved in more than one way of furthering a community outcome. In other cases it will not have any specific role because of the functions of other parties. The following sections of this Plan detail these activities and roles of Greater Wellington.

Relationship to our key strategic planning documents

Greater Wellington has a number of key strategic documents in place that govern many of its activities. These relate to, and will assist, in working towards the achievement of the community outcomes.The relationshipbetween these key strategic planning documents and our key planning processes are outlined in the attached figure.

How we will work with others

Greater Wellington will work with other local and regional organisations, Mori, central government and non-government organisations and the private sector to achieve the community outcomes. The range of organisations and stakeholders that Greater Wellington will work with is shown in the following sections of this Plan.

How we will measure progress

Greater Wellington is required by the Local Government Act 2002 to monitor and report on the community’s progress towards community outcomes for the Wellington region.

Greater Wellington has developed a set of indicators to assess progress towards the achievement of the community outcomes. There will be more technical measures that sit below these indicators. Local authorities and other agencies in the region are working together, through the Wellington Regional Strategy process, to agree on these technical measures. In turn, it is hoped to develop a system that combines and prioritises the measures to come up with a genuine progress indicator for the region. This will be a simple and meaningful measure of the economic, social, environmental and cultural wellbeing of the region.

Progress towards the achievement of the community outcomes will be monitored using this measurement regime and reported to the community every three years.