Funding Criteria - Management Focus Fund

Please Note. The future of this Fund is under review by the Ministry of Economic Development.

The Fund

As part of the suite of resources the Management Focus Fund (“the Fund”) has been established to enable individuals and/or organisations to undertake management related academic research and practical projects that address an aspect of capability development. The fund will be managed by the New Zealand Institute of Management (National Office). There will be a maximum of $50,000 awarded to any single application.

Funding Criteria

• for projects which show a fresh approach and have not been undertaken before;

• consistent with and further the achievement of the Government's management and business capability development objectives;

• aimed at co-ordinating management and business capability development between and across the public and private sectors;

• such that they do not crowd out private sector activity, but accelerate and complement the development of private sector alternatives;

• complementary and co-ordinate with the activities of other government programmes;

• responsive to the different needs of organisations, including Maori and Pacific Island;

• intended to add to management development after consideration of downstream effects;

• aligned to the supply of management and business capability development services with the needs of organisations;

• aimed at improving the quality and/or quantity of management and business capability development services;

• primarily New Zealand based, but which may, on a case by case basis, include research and the development of programmes with Australian authorities; and

• designed to improve the market for management and business capability development, as opposed to funding individual organisations or groups of organisations.