Community-Led Projects

The philosophy underpinning community-led development is one of community empowerment. It is illustrated by broad community engagement to identify shared issues and concerns to generate local solutions. The community-led development approach focuses on communities as a whole, rather than on specific programmes or activities. The principles of community-led development shift the focus away from small grants for individual projects and/or organisations, to an approach where communities have access to flexible funding that contributes to overall community wellbeing. The Government is supporting community-led development by providing support, advice and funding, but the work is led by the community.

When your community, hapū or iwi wants to lead its own development, we can support you on the journey and provide advice to help you to get to where you want to go. We call this way of working with you community-led development. Essentially, your community leads and we assist you.