Community Governance Aotearoa and the Institute of Directors (IoD) partner to run the Tuakana Teina programme for new chairs of not-for-profits. The collaboration aims to strengthen and support the community governance sector with best-practice expertise of the IoD. This is a National Action Plan initiative in response to ensuring the boards of all community organisations are well chaired.
The concept of Tuakana Teina is a Māori values-based principle of ako (two-way learning), which draws upon shared experience, knowledge and support. 25 teina (mentees) are matched 1:1 with tuakana (mentors) for an eight-month programme, enhanced by additional training, support, and online and in-person events and workshops.
2024 will be our third year running the Tuakana Teina Programme. Applications for the 2024 programme closed on 05 March at 6:00pm.
You can check out the 2023 wrap up event here. And hear from some of our 2023 cohort of teina below as they share why they love community governance!
