Pacific peoples are an essential part of New Zealand’s construction and infrastructure workforce. Supporting their success is key to building a thriving industry.
Pacific peoples’ talent will help meet construction and infrastructure demands while cultivating an environment where the Pacific workforce and enterprises are valued, respected and thriving.
Industry LEO (voice) combines perspectives from Pacific people across the Construction and Infrastructure sectors through respectful talanoa-style interviews.
Established in July 2023, the aim of the Pacific Peoples Strategic Reference Group – Industry LEO is to provide strategic direction to transform the Vocational Education System for improved workforce outcomes for Pacific Peoples.
The Pacific Peoples’ Workforce Development Plan is aligned with the Government’s All-of-Government Pacific Wellbeing Strategy, guided by Lalanga Fou’s four goals—a vision shaped by Pacific communities to improve wellbeing outcomes now and into the future. The plan reflects this vision by ensuring Pacific peoples in construction and infrastructure have the skills, training, and opportunities they need to succeed.
The recommendations in the Pacific Peoples Construction and Infrastructure Workforce Development Plan support the needs and aspirations of Pacific people, sector leaders, and communities in Aotearoa New Zealand, recognising our young, growing population’s rich potential, ready to be unleashed. Focused on four priority areas, the Plan aims to ensure that Pacific people in the sector thrive now and in the future.
The priority recommendations: (choose the white dots to scroll through these)
These levers for change align with Industry LEO
By working together, we can translate these shared aspirations and LEO into real, lasting change.
The image below illustrates Pacific Peoples’ journey through construction and infrastructure. It shows where and how you can provide support for their success.
This dashboard showing Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) learner data offers a comprehensive analysis of Pacific learners’ completion of programmes in New Zealand’s tertiary education system relating to construction & infrastructure.
Using this live tool you can get valuable information to support your Pacific workforce. Covering everything from worker retention rates to current learner numbers, interact with the data to discover trends and insights about the Pacific construction and infrastructure workforce.
