The Hive – the rangatahi voice - Annual Report 2019/20
The Hive is an online youth voice platform to increase the number of rangatahi taking part in government policy development.
It is a collaboration between social creative agency Curative and 15 rangatahi known as The Hivers, supported by the Ministry of Youth Development – Te Manatū Whakahiato Taiohi (MYD).
These rangatahi explain policy in a way that other young people can understand – through videos, blogs and social media. The Hivers worked with the Department of Conservation in August 2019 on the Aotearoa New Zealand Biodiversity Strategy. Due to the partnership over 280 rangatahi made submissions on the Strategy, with 84 percent saying it was the fi rst time they had made one.
During Alert Level 4, The Hivers staged an Instagram event, HiveLive, with MYD support. They asked seven prominent rangatahi, “If you could change one thing to make life better for rangatahi post COVID-19, what would it be?”
Sonny Ngatai, a young Māori presenter with a passion for change, said, “My advice is to get rangatahi and pakeke to work together more on issues. Even though rangatahi might not have the wisdom or the experiences that pakeke have, we have the imagination and the hope.”
A youth voice is a focus area of the Government’s Youth Plan – to ensure rangatahi voices and perspectives are listened to, valued and used in decision-making.
6,000 video views 1,250 likes to the social media content 281 submissions received from rangatahi.
