About the Safer Wanganui project

This page has links to background information on the Safer Wanganui project – its framework and partners, group roles and responsibilities and methodology.

Overview of the project

This is the Safety Plan for the Safer Wanganui project – a community-owned, Council-mandated project aimed at Wanganui District becoming a designated International Safe Community (ISC) in 2010. The ISC model recognises safety as a universal concern and a responsibility for all. Part of the project is also linked to the New Zealand Injury Prevention Strategy 2003 (NZIPS03). Read more about the geography, history, tangata whenua and statistical profile of Wanganui, the ISC model and NZIPS03:

About Wanganui

Context of the Safer Wanganui project

Desired community result - A Safe Wanganui

The overarching desired community result for this project is A Safe Wanganui. This page features people talking about what A Safe Wanganui means to them:

What Safer Wanganui means to Wanganui people

Project framework and partners

The Safer Wanganui framework includes a Steering Group and six Reference Groups. Each group contains a wide range of Wanganui-based government, non-government and Iwi / Maori organisations across a variety of sectors. Read more about the framework, the project partners and their respective roles and responsibilities, and alignments with the individual goals of those project partners:

Safer Wanganui framework

Project partners

Steering group roles and responsibilities

Reference group roles and responsibilities

Our common priorities

Methodology

The Safer Wanganui project used the evidence-based Results Based Accountability (RBA) tool to identify the desired results and will use the same tool to monitor progress toward achieving those results. RBA is a planning tool that helps communities identify what success will look like, and how they will know when it's been achieved.

Find out more about RBA, its origins and how it is being used globally