Our highly qualified team has over 50 years of collective experience in strategy and development.
What we do
Development Action Ltd. is an ethically focused community interest company that provides a range of services focused on enhancing our client's ability to undertake effective work. The organisations Development Action works with define themselves as community and voluntary sector organisations and/or public sector actors within Aotearoa New Zealand.
Our services include professional development, strategic planning and event coordination. Development Action also undertakes research and has a special interest in funding for international development. Read our reports on the New Zealand Government's Sustainable Development Fund.
Download our latest brochure to find out what we do, who we work with, and a profile of the talented associates we are lucky to work alongside.
Who we've worked with
Development Action has been commissioned to work with a wide variety of public sector and community and voluntary sector organisations. We are committed to working within budgets and have a flexible approach to our rates.
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Ministry of Social Development, Familiy and Community Services - High Trust Contract reflection day, with full workshop report and organisation interviews.
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Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs, Wellington and Auckland offices - in partnership with Ann Braun, have helped both teams design and develop tailored monitoring and evaluation strategies for key project areas.
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New Zealand Aotearoa Adolescent Health and Development – strategic planning with board and staff.
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Change Makers Refugee Forum – strategic planning with board and staff.
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University of Victoria, English Language Training for Officials – sessions discussing community development principles with visiting foreign government official students.
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New Zealand Aids Foundation – strategic planning with Pacific network delegates.
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Futures Trust Aotearoa – event planning for Richard Slaughter forum, and Steven Ames multi-city workshop, including video interview editing and uploading, as well as scheduling of meetings with key local government officials.
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Kites Trust – strategic planning with Consumer Coalition prior to meetings with District Health Boards.
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Platform Charitable Trust – facilitation assistance at Hamilton meeting of service providers.
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New Zealand National Refugee Network – strategic planning focusing on nation-wide message delivery of issues faced by the refugee community.
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Engineers Without Borders – delivery of interactive community development session at EWB's first conference
Training we have offered
From the Ministry of Social Development and the Office of the Auditor-General, through to organisations like Barnardos, World Vision and Oxfam, Development Action has put considerable effort into offering events that are different from other providers and interesting to a range of participants.
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Reporting on outcomes - November 2010 (Facilitator: Lee Sentes)
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Taking stock of your organisation's monitoring and evaluation - March 2011 (Trainer: Ann Braun)
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Capturing outcomes: Results Based Accountability 101 - April 2011 (Trainer: Sharon Shea)
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Sexuality and practise: increasing participation from a wider community - May 2011 (Facilitator: Simon Harger-Forde)
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Beyond Management: how to get to grips with social complexity and the desire to control - June 2011 (Facilitators: Allan Kaplan and Sue Davidoff)
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The Social Enterprise Journey: balancing social mission with making money - November 2011 (Facilitator: Bice Awan)
"best team for the job" approach
Teamwork is at the heart of Development Action's approach. We believe this improves the solutions and helps boost your organisation's ability to address similar challenges in the future.
Part of our initial assessment will be deciding who within the Development Action team is best suited to help. We may also suggest using different people outside of our team for specialised assistance.
Take a minute to meet the team and our skilled associates.