Poipoia supports your work in centering Taiao

Poipoia provides services, from policy, planning and consenting support to on the ground Taiao project management and restoration, we have an experienced team ready to provide helpful and bespoke advice to your unique needs. We specialise in freshwater and oceans, geothermal and climate change matters. We also have strong expertise in wānanga facilitation and hui with bilingual staff available to support your te reo requirements. Poipoia specialises in engaging in advocacy efforts to influence policy and decision-making at local, regional, and national levels, ensuring that the interests and rights of our Taiao are represented and protected

Planning Advice

Poipoia provides innovative options to deliver outcomes through planning to support your work within the resource management system. Iwi and hapū management plans, submissions, consent facilitation and supporting councils to make your policy fit for purpose are some of our focus areas.

We provide support to keep up to date on fast moving reforms and assisting you to prepare and participate where needed.

Poipoia delivers fast and technically sound advice on all planning kaupapa.

Energy and wider infrastructure

We recognise that energy and infrastructure can be crucial to the aspirations of Māori economic authorities. It can also be a concern for hapu and iwi when these proposal are in your rohe. We have worked at the interface of large energy developments in hydro, geothermal and solar projects being able to offer strategic and operational advice to our clients in this space.

We deeply understand the fast track process and can provide support to applicants who want to use the process but maintain environmental limits and protections and partnership approaches with iwi and hapū.

moana; policy, planning and restoration

Our team has experience in oceans management, planning and policy development. We work closely with communities to articulate their aspirations and baselines for their moana. Supporting oceans planning and policy understanding to protect and enhance the relationship that hapu have in place are skills we are proud of. We particularly see great opportunities in enabling these conversations around ocean ecosystem health and kapata kai enhancement for our hāpori.

Agribusiness strategy and support

Poipoia is experienced in supporting economic authorities to amplify their kaitiakitanga journeys. Markets are increasingly seeking more environmental transparency and climate change is requiring significant system change. We have worked with complex Maori economic authorities to consider how to operate within this new normal creating step by step support, mentoring, system wide processes to transition over time. This work is an area we see as central to ensuring that we continue to have whenua and wai that can be supported for its own well-being.