Drua

Enabling Pacific people to come together to form an incubation centre for collective workforce development.

Drua is the name given to the sacred double-hulled Fijian canoes of gigantic proportions, renowned for their innovative design, craftsmanship and ability to transport up to 300 people at a time. The drua was a product of considerable group endeavour, requiring total community involvement in its construction.

Drua symbolizes the bringing together of people’s skills and knowledge to construct and voyage in one vessel to travel together to new horizons.

Addressing the shortfall 

Given the severe shortage of Pacific mental health and addiction workers in various geographical locations, and the fragmentation of services, it is difficult to come together to share clinical and cultural expertise, strive towards consistency in models of service delivery, and support existing training and development.

Drua will explore ways of achieving this through the establishment of an incubation centre. 

Project update

The Drua fono were well attended, productive and achieved their outcomes. Click for a detailed update of the Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch fono.

Evaluation

The evaluation report for this year's round of Le Va Drua fono is now available. Well over 100 people attended the fono series throughout the country. The evaluation report found that 93% of people who filled in the evaluation forms either agreed or strongly agreed that the fono overall was a success and thought that it should be continued in the future.

Page last updated: 11 June 2009