About the CoBoP Clusters
CoBoP has five Cluster Groups, including four wellbeing clusters, plus a cluster focused on processes around Community Outcomes:
Wellbeing Cluster Groups (Social, Economic, Environmental, Cultural)
Leadership and roles
There are four wellbeing clusters, one for each of the four aspects of community wellbeing. Each cluster is led by the relevant wellbeing Steering Group representative and actively involves both central and local government agencies. The four wellbeing clusters are all:
- Open to all CoBoP signatory organisations
- Focused on progressing the identified local and regional community outcomes through relationship development, improving practice around working together, sharing information and/or defining and clarifying areas needing more focus.
Meeting frequency and purpose
Meetings are held at least twice annually on the same day as the CoBoP Plenary, with additional meetings being held as required.
It is envisaged that at times clusters will meet jointly with other clusters with common interests. The onus is on the clusters themselves to ensure cross-wellbeing issues are jointly addressed.
Cluster meetings are to tease out complex issues, to explore where there is interest and benefit in more focused work together, and to foster clear arrangements for achieving agreed actions.
Cluster group projects
Cluster group projects will normally be identified through Cluster group meetings or work, see above. These are projects where central and local government agencies have made a commitment to do some specific work together that will achieve identified local and regional community outcomes.
These projects are owned by organisations themselves, although they may remain under the CoBoP network umbrella (ownership means agreeing to participate and commit resources, such as time, information and/or funding).
These projects must be clearly specified, including their expected duration, and must be led by one organisation which takes responsibility to coordinate, administer and communicate about the project to the Cluster group.
Support and communications
Cluster group leaders are responsible for:
- Operating inclusively to ensure all CoBoP signatory organisations are invited to participate in cluster group meetings
- Providing administrative support for cluster group meetings
- Ensuring cluster group meeting notifications, agendas, minutes, project updates and all other cluster group communications are circulated to cluster group members
- Ensuring cluster group meeting notifications, agendas, minutes and project updates are provided to the Strategic Broker in a timely manner, for circulation to the Plenary and Steering Groups.
Current wellbeing cluster leadership
The wellbeing cluster leNZTE Economic Wellbeing cluster aders are identified below and will remain in effect until the completion of the first Steering Group term on 30 June 2010:
| Name, |
Organisation Leader of the: |
| Mike Bryant, |
MSD Social Wellbeing cluster |
| Lionel Crawley, |
NZTE Economic Wellbeing cluster |
| Henry Weston, |
DoC Environmental Wellbeing cluster |
| Wally Tangohau, |
TPK Cultural Wellbeing cluster |
Community Outcomes Processes (COP) Cluster
Leadership, role and meeting frequency
This cluster is led by local government and actively involves central government agencies.
Meeting frequency is determined by need, but is at least quarterly.
This cluster:
- Takes a high level focus on improving the processes and practices required to define, prioritise, and work towards community outcomes across the region;
- Ensures that local and central government agencies in the region are actively engaged and informed about the trends emerging from community outcomes monitoring processes;
- Supports local and central government planning for, and engagement in, community outcomes processes;
- Is an important reference group for the Strategic Broker.
Monitoring and reporting work stream (ongoing)
Also led by local government, this work stream is an ongoing one rather than a specific project.
Its role is to continue to develop and oversee shared information gathering and management processes for community outcomes monitoring and reporting.
Support and communications
The cluster group leader’s support and communication responsibilities are as per the wellbeing clusters, which are:
- Operating inclusively to ensure all CoBoP signatory organisations are invited to participate in cluster group meetings;
- Providing administrative support for cluster group meetings;
- Ensuring cluster group meeting notifications, agendas, minutes, project updates and all other cluster group communications are circulated to cluster group members;
- Ensuring cluster group meeting notifications, agendas, minutes and project updates are provided to the Strategic Broker in a timely manner, for circulation to the Plenary and Steering Groups.
Current Community Outcomes Processes cluster leadership
Queries can be directed to Anne O’Malley, Tauranga City Council, in the interim.