Building our inclusion, diversity, and equity capabilities
The roles at the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) are diverse, as are our people and the stakeholders and communities we serve. We're at our best when we understand, plan for, and build the people capability we need to deliver.
Our 'Inclusion, diversity and equity strategy 2025–2026' sets out how we’ll continue to build an environment where our people can succeed. This will ensure we are well-placed to be the world’s most trusted provider of high-value food and primary products.
In our strategy, we target 3 focus areas:
- strengthening our foundations
- building our inclusion, diversity, and equity capabilities
- fostering inclusive leadership.
The strategy has more details about each focus area. It is available in both PDF and Word versions.
Inclusion, diversity and equity strategy 2025–2026 [PDF, 2.5 MB]
Inclusion, diversity and equity strategy 2025–2026 [DOCX, 533 KB]
What we're doing about gender and ethnic pay gaps
In 2025, we've included our progress update on our gender and ethnic pay gap action plan in our refreshed 'Inclusion, diversity and equity strategy 2025–2026'. Elements of our pay gap action plan often contribute to more than one aspect of an inclusive workplace, so combining the plan and strategy together sets out a more comprehensive way forward.
The action plan outlines our progress made to date and the next steps to accelerate this progress, aligned with 'Kia toipoto – public service pay gaps action plan 2021–24'. As well as gender, MPI has a strengthened focus on understanding and addressing the causes of Māori, Pacific peoples, and other ethnic pay gaps.
Kia toipoto – public service pay gaps action plan 2021–24 – Public Service Commission
Previous MPI action plan
Gender and ethnic pay gap action plan 22–24: 2023 progress update [PDF, 2.3 MB]
