New transition fund provides continuity while backing bold ideas
A streamlined Transition Research Fund has been announced for 2027, aligning science funding with national priorities and supporting a focus on outcomes that benefit New Zealand.
A streamlined Transition Research Fund has been announced for 2027, aligning science funding with national priorities and supporting a focus on outcomes that benefit New Zealand.
MBIE’s workforce and leadership representation goals – continued focus.
Key activities over the past twelve months to progress our DEI work plan, acknowledging the cross-over impact within these areas. The data above under “workforce and renumeration data” gives information about outcomes.
To improve the experiences and outcomes for MBIE people, customers, and stakeholders, MBIE gains insight from our people, explores workforce and remuneration data, and reviews the impact of actions taken. This informs what we keep, stop, start, and adjust with our new action plan.
At MBIE we value our people, and strive to reflect, embrace and nurture the communities we serve, including developing and maintaining our capability to engage Māori and understand Māori perspectives.
Workforce data supports evidence-informed decision-making by helping MBIE identify patterns in employee experience, representation, recruitment, progression, and workforce capability.
Cabinet paper seeking agreement to improve immigration settings for the Pacific.
pdf, 264 KBUnderstanding our people’s experience helps MBIE identify opportunities to strengthen leadership, workplace culture, and workforce systems. Insights from workforce data, employee feedback, unions, employee-led networks, and Māori capability partners inform initiatives that strengthen employee experience, workforce capability, and organisational effectiveness.
Annual petroleum reserves data released today by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) shows as of 1 January 2026 New Zealand’s natural gas proven plus probable (2P) reserves declined 23% from last year to 731 petajoules (PJ), the lowest level since recording began 20 years ago, says Amapola Generosa, Domains Manager, MBIE.
There are a number of public sector commitments and MBIE work programmes which support the mahi the agency is doing to improve diversity and inclusion, to close gender and ethnic pay gaps and create fairer workplaces. These are described below:
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