Rebecca McPhail on left, Sharla King Centre and Simon Anderson on right Introducing the Manawanui Projects Team I recently sat down with Simon Anderson who heads the Project Team at Manawanui – a team tasked with looking at ways Manawanui can improve their service offering to both current and new customers. Their mandate covers everything from products and services, through to Pilot projects with new customer bases who could benefit from Manawanui services. It also includes p

Manawanui wanted to understand the myriad impacts Individualised Funding (IF) has on the user, their family/whanau and wider community. So, we commissioned Impact Lab - leaders in measuring the social value of organisations through a data driven ‘Good Measure’ calculation - to identify and calculate the social benefit or value of IF. This in-depth process measured the often hard to quantify benefits Individualised Funding has on the physical and mental wellbeing of participan

The New Zealand Initiative, an independent Thinktank, recently undertook a deep study into Individualised Funding (IF) - and we thought you’d find their results interesting. Combining previously published research from around the world and in New Zealand, coupled with interviews with IF clients and providers (including Manawanui staff and clients), The New Zealand Initiative concluded IF provides a very positive experience – for the client, their family and their support work

As Individualised Funding started gaining real traction 6 years ago, Manawanui wanted to understand its effectiveness and cost benefits over more traditional care support models. We commissioned Dovetail to run independent research to review the care and support costs of clients using the Individualised Funding model (IF) versus those using non-IF funding options. The research company found IF is more cost-efficient and more ‘stable’ than non-IF funding for similar care needs

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