Councils and Community Organisations
Eligibility for Maori Demonstration Partnership funding
Is my organisation eligible for Māori Demonstration Partnership funding?
If you can answer ‘Yes’ to all of the following questions, then you are eligible to apply for Māori Demonstration Partnership funding.
- Is your organisation iwi or Māori?
- Does your organisation have the capability to provide housing related services?
- Do you have a project that generates a new supply of housing?
- Do you have a project that is ready to begin before 2012?
- Is your organisation able to contribute 50 percent equity to the project cost?
If you answered ‘Yes’ to some of the above questions you may still qualify. Please contact the Project Manager in your area.
Māori Demonstration Partnership - Eligibility criteria
The following criteria apply to applications for Māori Demonstration Partnership funding.
For more information about the criteria for submissions, please see Māori Development Partnerships - Submission criteria.
Applicant must be an Iwi / Māori organisation
Iwi / Māori organisations are those providing services to Māori in the communities they operate in and support initiatives for Māori by Māori, and:
- have identifiable links to Māori communities
- provide services for Māori
- be majority Māori owned or governed
- have a demonstrable mandate from the community the organisation operates in.
Evidence an organisation is an Iwi / Māori organisation can be established through its Constitution, Trust Deed or other foundation documents.
Organisational capability
Iwi / Māori organisations must have:
- the ability to provide housing related services,
- the capability through its governance and management structures, systems and practices to undertake the proposal.
If housing is a new activity, the organisation must have existing infrastructure and resources to develop its housing capability and services.
Project generates a new supply of housing
- Applicants must demonstrate their project generates a new supply of housing.
- New supply can include new builds or purchases or existing houses relocated onto the land.
Project ready to begin before 2012
- The proposed project must be ready to commence within 12 months of obtaining funding approval.
- Confirmation of project mandate and readiness, in the form of a confirmed project plan with resource consent issues resolved, is required.
50 percent equity contribution
- Organisations will be expected to provide a minimum of 50 percent equity contribution to the project.
- The contribution must include an unencumbered amount equal to a minimum of 15% of the project cost. The 15% contribution must be the applicant’s own equity (i.e. not lending from another entity or other government funding) and can be way of cash, land and value-in-kind.
- Examples of value-in-kind could include donated materials or donated labour. The maximum permitted donated labour value-in-kind contribution is 10% of the total project cost.
- Organisations who are unable to provide the 50 percent equity but meet all other criteria should discuss their project with the Corporation.
