NZQA is committed to providing its people with an inclusive and equitable workplace where diversity is celebrated.
Kia Toipoto Plan 2023-2024
Kia Toipoto, the Public Service pay gaps action plan 2023-2024, has 3 goals:
- make substantial progress towards closing gender, Māori, Pacific, and ethnic pay gaps
- accelerate progress for wāhine Māori, Pacific women, and women from ethnic communities
- create fairer workplaces for all, including disabled people and members of rainbow communities.
Kia Toipoto builds on the successful Public Service Gender Pay Gap Action Plan 2018–2022, but goes wider than gender and extends to Crown entities.
Kia Toipoto comes from the saying "Waiho i te toipoto, kaua i te toiroa l let us be united, not wide apart.” The name speaks to closing gaps and creating unity and fairness for all people.
Kia Toipoto - Public Service Pay Gaps Action Plan 2023–24 (external link)
Our action plan
Through a series of focus groups with our staff and unions, we identified focus areas for NZQA’s Kia Toipoto Plan.
NZQA’s inaugural Kia Toipoto plan covered from December 2022 to June 2023.
From July 2023 NZQA will create annual Kia Toipoto Plans.
These commitments apply across NZQA’s work, and underpin our deliberate equity focus on learners who face the greatest barriers to educational success through the compounding effects of disadvantage.
These equity commitments are a component of how we fulfil our obligations under Te Tiriti o Waitangi, and reflect the priorities described in NZQAs strategic action plans Te Kōkiritanga and Takiala Pasifika, and NZQA’s Disability Action Plan.”