Simon Heggarty
[FYI request #19535 email]
8 August 2022
Dear Simon Heggarty
OIA 21-22-21: Kiwi Expat Association Funding
Thank you for your email of 31 May 2022 to New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE),
making a request under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act). You requested the following
information:
1. Sponsorship or funding paid to the Kiwi Expat Association (KEA) over the past 24 months.
2. KPIs, goals, or targets that KEA has met in the past 24 months and those that have been
set for the future.
3. Correspondence between KEA and NZTE over the past 24 months in relation to ongoing
funding of the organisation.
Answers to your questions are as follows.
1. Sponsorship or funding paid to the Kiwi Expat Association (KEA) over the past 24 months
as at 31 May 2022.
Total Approved Funding
$1,020,000
Total Approved Funding
$1,020,000
FY20/21
FY21/22
Total funding paid in FY20/21 $1,020,000
Total paid funding FY21/22 $1,000,000
2. KPIs, goals, or targets that KEA has met in the past 24 months and those that have been
set for the future.
Please find the KPIs, goals and targets that Kea has met in the last 24 months set out in the
tables below. The KPIs are agreed upon annually.
KPIs, Goals and Targets FY 20/21
Result
1. Connections: 700 connections per annum to Kea’s network
879 connections
members. These connections can come from the parties or the wider made.
community.
2. World Class New Zealand Awards: Two tables (which are able to Due to COVID-19,
seat a minimum of 10 people) at the World Class New Zealand
WCNZ was deferred to
Awards.
March 2021.
3. Network Contacts: Working alongside the NZ Inc. Parties to
Achieved – connected
provide access to relevant network contacts for events and other
a range of NZTE
government initiatives.
customers to contacts
across Kea’s network.
4. Access to High Impact Members: The Sponsor and the NZ Inc.
Access maintained.
Parties having easy access to information on Kea’s network of high
impact members (nominally,1000 members).
5. NZ Story Integration: Integration of the NZ Story in all aspects of Achieved – Promotes
Kea’s marketing, promotion and events as relevant and appropriate.
NZ Story’s brand and
Specifically, Kea agrees to deliver a consistent narrative through its
values through its
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channels and represent the NZ Story values throughout
communication
communications (subject to prior writ en approval by NZTE).
channels.
6. Agreement on Specific Actions and Measures: After reviewing
Meeting held.
Kea’s Strategic Plan 2020-2022, in order to prepare this Agreement,
the NZ Inc. Parties have requested a meeting with Kea in March 2020
(the Meeting) to agree on specific actions and measures needed to
best achieve the purpose of the Sponsorship funding. The Parties
acknowledge and agree that:
a. The outcome of the Meeting may mean that the Sponsor
Benefits are refined. Where any such refinements result in a
substantive change to the Sponsor Benefits (as agreed by the
Parties), the Parties wil enter into a variation of this agreement.
b. For the avoidance of doubt, the Parties wil not amend the
purpose of the Initiative.
c. In the event that the Parties are not able to reach an agreement
as to any proposed refinements to the Sponsor Benefits, this
Agreement wil continue in force unless otherwise determined by
the Parties.
KPI’s, Goals and Targets FY 21/22*
Met/Not Met/Ongoing
*Please note at the time of the request these KPIs are stil ongoing
1. Connections: 700 connections per annum to Kea’s network
Year-end report not yet
members. These connections can come from the parties or the wider finalised.
community.
2. World Class New Zealand Awards: Two tables (which are able to Year-end report not yet
seat a minimum of 10 people) at the World Class New Zealand
finalised.
Awards
3. Network Contacts: Working alongside the NZ Inc. Parties to
Year-end report not yet
provide access to relevant network contacts for events and other
finalised.
government initiatives.
4. Access to High Impact Members: The Sponsor and the NZ Inc.
Year-end report not yet
Parties having easy access to information on Kea’s network of high
finalised.
impact members (nominally,1000 members).
5. NZ Story Integration: Integration of the NZ story in all aspects of
Year-end report not yet
Kea’s marketing, promotion, and events as relevant and appropriate. finalised.
Specifically, Kea agrees to deliver a consistent narrative through its
channels and represent the NZ Story values throughout
communications (subject to prior writ en approval by NZTE).
6. Agreement on Specific Actions and Measures:
Year-end report not yet
Parties have requested a meeting with Kea in October 2021 (the
finalised.
Meeting) to agree on specific actions and measures needed to best
achieve the purpose of the Sponsorship funding. The Parties
acknowledge and agree that:
a. The outcome of the Meeting may mean that the
Sponsor Benefits are refined. Where any such
refinements result in a substantive change to the
Sponsor Benefits (as agreed by the Parties), the
Parties wil enter into a variation of this agreement.
b. For the avoidance of doubt, the Parties wil not amend
the purpose of the Initiative.
c. In the event that the Parties are not able to reach an
agreement as to any proposed refinements to the
Sponsor Benefits, this Agreement wil continue in force
unless otherwise determined by the Parties.
3. Any correspondence between KEA and NZTE over the past 12 months in relation to
funding of the organisation.
Please see
Appendix One for all relevant correspondence between NZTE and KEA relating to
the funding of KEA from 31 May 2020 to 31 May 2022. NZTE has compiled these into one
document for ease of reading and have organised chronologically from date of first email.
NZTE has also removed duplicates. Some duplicates have been maintained in instances
wherein their exclusion would have made an email responding or forwarding unclear.
We have chosen to redact some information on the following grounds:
• Section 9(2)(a): the withholding of the information is necessary to protect the privacy of
natural persons; and
• Section 9(2)(b)(ii): protect information where the making available of the information
would be likely unreasonably to prejudice a commercial position of the person who
supplied or who is the subject of the information.
Encl List documents enclosed
•
Appendix One: Al correspondence between NZTE and KEA months in relation to
ongoing funding from May 31, 2020 – May 31, 2022.
You have the right under section 28(3) of the Act to seek an investigation and review by the
Ombudsman. Information about how to make a complaint is available at:
www.ombudsman.parliament.govt.nz or freephone: 0800 802 602.
Yours sincerely
Melissa Trochon
Director – Board & Ministerial
