Aktive's Strategic Framework 2020-2040

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Goal
Aktive’s Role
Key Strategic
Initiatives
Outcome
Together
we go further
Kia koke i roto
6i te kōtuitanga
Collaboration is fostered across public, private, not-for-profit, educational and
sport and recreation organisations, drawing on their complementary roles in
building a more active Auckland.
Leading
• Drive strategy, policy, resource and knowledge alignment between the
sector’s many organisations and agencies.
• Encourage organisations to co-design responses with priority communities.
• Convene organisations within, across and outside the sector to share
best practice and collaboratively develop sport, play and active recreation
initiatives.
Bringing
Strategy to life
Advocating
• All organisations that have a role in sport, play and active recreation in
Auckland have aligned goals to build a more active Auckland.
Catalysing
Best Practice
If Auckland is to become the world’s
most active city, we will need to find
new ways to work together to inspire
all Aucklanders to be physically
active as a regular part of their daily
lives. Aktive has a pivotal role to
play in bringing a wide range
of people, communities and
organisations together, to develop
new and shared ways of working
and to create alignment across
the sector.
Developing true collaboration
between a wide range of
organisations requires a culture of
inclusion, trust and respect, based
on an understanding of the changing
nature of Auckland and its
communities. For example,
strengthening our relationships with
Pacific communities recognises that
Auckland has the largest population
of Pacific peoples of any city in the
world. We also will need to
strengthen our connections with
Auckland’s fast-growing Asian
population. We need to work
collaboratively with all priority
populations to understand their
interests and perspectives and to
empower them to develop and lead
initiatives.
We will work closely with the
many public, private and communitybased
organisations that have
complementary roles to play in
increasing participation in sport, play
and active recreation in Tāmaki
Makaurau, as well as encouraging
Aucklanders to become more
physically active. These include:
• Sport New Zealand
• Auckland Council and its agencies
(such as Auckland Transport and
Auckland Tourism, Events, and
Economic Development)
• Central government agencies
(including the sport, education and
health sectors)
• Regional sports trusts
• National and regional sporting
organisations
• Iwi/Māori and ethnic development
organisations
• Education providers (early
childhood, schools, and tertiary
providers)
• Health providers
• Community-based and not-forprofit
organisations
• Private sector sport and recreation
organisations
• Private corporations and
workplaces.
We will all have to work together
to make the best use of our time,
knowledge and resources, drawing
on our complementary strengths
to produce better outcomes.
This could mean for example:
• Working with schools to provide
access to their sport and
recreational facilities outside
school hours
• Working with corporates to be
more expansive in the benefits
they offer employees, such as gym
memberships, sports leave for
players and officials, funding of
recreational activities, and
encouraging walking and cycling
as a part of the working day
• Encouraging public and private
organisations to leverage more
opportunities for activity by being
innovative in how they use their
facilities
• Sharing knowledge and ideas with
the health sector on proven
programmes and initiatives that
encourage people to become
more active.