‘Leadership with a Pacific lens’  is the theme for the third and final seminar series of the financial year. The two-day seminar event for alumni members and invited guests will continue the Pacific leadership dialogue, discussion, and learning.

Keynote speakers confirmed for the fono are Ministry of Health Director General and Chief Executive Dr Kevin Woods; David Clarke, Director of Cranleigh Merchant Bank, and former CEO CMDHB; and University of Auckland, Senior Lecturer Pacific Studies, Dr Steven Ratuva. Click here to view profiles.

This seminar programme incorporates a line up of Alumni speakers including presentation from the three Aniva follows: Gerardine Clifford - Lidstone, Kim Buchanan and Dr Kunileti Chang-Wai; and a special presentation organised by the Cook Island members of Aniva led by Anne Allan-Moetaua.

The registration deadline has been extended to Friday 3rd June. Alumni members can register online at www.aniva.co.nz; or can email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for more information.

Fono information pack are also due out a week before the fono.
 

Aniva Nurses Focus Group, Auckland

“Learning technical skills is easy. Going to the next level of being able to use cultural skills – and executing this knowledge in a business setting is the opportunity.”

Comment of Alumni member at a focus group session

The Aniva programme is performing well and is useful to the leadership development of members with 85% of members surveyed as part of the Checkpoint online survey saying they rated the quality of the Aniva Programme as good or excellent.

To investigate the survey findings further, five focus group discussions were held throughout March and April in Auckland, Wellington and Hamilton. The small group sessions proved extremely useful in adding a deeper level of understanding to the online Checkpoint survey; and to connect with members in a relaxed, low-key setting.

In summary, the Checkpoint campaign (online survey and focus groups) told us that members are seeking a programme that provides the opportunity to better understand the big picture of the health sector as well as strategic analysis from a Pacific perspective, not just reliance on mainstream strategy and planning tools.

In addition to this, members are seeking a programme that enables networking across the Pacific health sector with Pacific people in similar positions to share insights and learnings about how ethnicity and culture enables and constrains leadership; and how this can be used to improve health access and quality of health services for Pacific people to improve health outcomes.

Finally, with the plethora of leadership development programme available, members desire a programme that is distinguished from mainstream programmes by:

• being inclusive of the diverse needs of the membership- not one size fits all
• celebrating and embracing our diversity and differences – there is not one Pacific
• providing a ‘space’ or ‘le va’ for robust exchange of views (challenge and resilience, rather than safety)
• providing this space in the context of long term, nurturing relationships, based on trust, respect and commitment to progress and outcomes for the group and for Pacific health and communities
• using Pacific case studies, experience, knowledge and wisdom as a basis for learning – experiential learning opportunities
• supporting and nurturing the development of younger members to have confidence to ‘know their place’ both in mainstream and Pacific settings, and to be able to use cultural tools as required in exercising leadership – concepts included resilience
• a focus on giving back and reciprocity - supporting the group and other Pacific leaders to grow; not solely focusing on one’s own personal development.

The Aniva programme for 2011-2013 will be released at the Fono on 16 June 2011.
 

“It was an amazing opportunity to create international networks and to link with the only other Kiwi attending, Dr Gary Jackson from Counties Manukau DHB.”

To date I have completed half of my Aniva fellowship. In November 2010 I attended the Salzburg Global Seminar in Austria. The Salzburg Global Seminar is housed in the magnificent surroundings of Schloss Leopoldskron, it has been a refuge for thinking and reflection since the Second World War. Most of you will know it as the castle where ‘The Sound of Music’ was filmed.

The seminar was hosted by The Nuffield Trust - one of the leading independent health policy charitable trusts in the UK, the British Medical Journal and the Salzburg Global Seminar. On this occasion, emerging leaders from 29 countries spanning every stage of economic development, met to discuss the challenges of achieving universal access to high quality health care that is both affordable for individuals and for nations.

Inspiration and provocation were provided by international health care leaders focusing on system reform, the role of professionals and patients in changing health systems and the implementation of system change. It was an amazing opportunity to create international networks and to link with the only other Kiwi attending, Dr Gary Jackson from Counties Manukau DHB.

I have recently been appointed as the National Programme Manager, Pacific Programme Implementation at the Ministry of Health. I will be working with Dr Api Talemaitoga in the Sector and Capability Implementation Business Unit. Returning to the Public Service after 10 years in the provider sector will be a challenge. However, the Salzburg Global Seminar has equipped me with a plethora of reading material and contacts to add to my own Pacific experience and networks.”
 

The achievements of the Pacific Health Workforce Awards recipients were celebrated at a ceremony hosted by the Ministry of Health on Friday, 6 May 2011.

More than 330 people attended the event at the Dream Centre in Manukau including award recipients’ supporters, cabinet ministers, Ministry of Health officials and the Serau Focus One workforce providers: Le Va, Pasifika Medical Association (PMA), Bader Drive and Aniva.

The event was hosted by Ministry of Health Deputy Director General Fepulea’i Margie Apa and compeered by Pacific Clinical Director, Dr Api Talemaitoga and National Programme Manager, Gerardine Clifford-Lidstone.

This year over 200 students received Pacific Health Workforce Awards. The awards scheme is part of a suite of initiatives under the Serau programme that are intended to contribute to addressing current Pacific health workforce shortages. The awards provide successful applicants with financial support towards approved courses of study. Le Va, administers the award scheme and PMA provide pastoral care and mentoring support to award recipients.

The event saw the Serau workforce providers and Pacific health sector leaders come together to present the Pacific health sector to scholars and their families. This introduced the scholars as future leaders, to the Pacific health workforce network.

Caption: Mums from the Dream Centre community working at the dinner

The Serau: Bright Futures Awards event was organised and managed by the Aniva programme team in collaboration with Pastor Chris Sola and the Dream Centre community.

The Aniva programme team, led by Stella Muller worked closely with the Dream Centre community to develop the Centre’s  event management skills and knowledge of of hosting a ‘corporate-event’.

The event was special for the Aniva programme, as a way of “continuing the conversations” and building on the relationship with Pastor Chris Sola; a speaker at the seminar one event in August 2010.

In the two weeks following the event, the Dream Centre also reported a significant number of booking enquiries, many callers indicating they had attended the Serau dinner.

Next Aniva Fono and seminar series is now on the Thursday 16th and Friday 17th of June at the Waipuna Lodge. This has changed from the original April dates announced.