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During 2010/11, Te Puni Kōkiri funded in excess of 800 projects totalling $20 million through the Mātauranga, Rawa and Whakamana Non-Departmental Output Expense (NDOE) appropriations. The delivery of investments were primarily undertaken by Te Puni Kōkiri’s network of regional offices and utilised our strong relationships with Māori communities, in which funding becomes an extension of wider community based facilitation and brokerage activities.
Christchurch Earthquake relief: Te Puni Kōkiri provided over 30 emergency grants to marae and community organisations undertaking relief activities related to the Canterbury earthquakes. The Ministry has also put in place funding agreements with Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu and He Oranga Pounamu to assist them with wider earthquake relief and recovery measures.
Māori Tourism Strategy Action Plan
An Inter-departmental Implementation Group (IDIG) that includes Te Puni Kōkiri has been formed by the New Zealand Māori Tourism Society to develop a Māori Tourism Action Plan. There is the potential to increase the impact of various tourism initiatives being undertaken by publicly funded agencies, with implications for Māori Tourism, through increased co-ordination and collaboration between them. The group will report back to Cabinet on, among other things, an evaluation framework and associated performance measures that will ultimately inform new investments and activities to strengthen and promote Māori Tourism.
Work to date has centred on developing and clarifying outcomes for the Māori Tourism Strategy Action Plan, as well as ensuring that Māori tourism information and data are available to inform the impact evaluation in 2012/13.
Rugby World Cup
Te Puni Kōkiri has worked with Rugby New Zealand 2011, New Zealand 2011, and other agencies to support planning for the Rugby World Cup (RWC) tournament and Real Festival New Zealand. The underlying aim has been to ensure that there is meaningful engagement in hosting RWC 2011. This engagement will help position Māori to leverage economic, socio-political and economic opportunities off the Rugby World Cup (RWC). For example, there will be over 200 public events with strong Māori content spread across all 15 host regions throughout the country. The Waka Māori pavilion and free-to-air coverage on Māori Television will provide real focal points for the Māori contribution.
Te Puni Kōkiri has worked to support successful planning and implementation of the investments and to ensure that it is well placed to evidence success over the course of the investment. The work centred on clarifying outcomes and performance measures, developing the key evaluation questions that are important to key stakeholders, providing reporting templates and guidance to improve data collection and management information that will assist in the economic evaluation and performance story narrative post-RWC events.
Cadetship
The Cadetships Programme was originally developed as part of Te Puni Kōkiri’swider response to the Prime Minister’s 2009 Job Summit. In recognition of rising unemployment due to the global economic recession, the Job Summit sought to generate actions for measurable improvement in employment outcomes.
Cadetships had historically provided a successful pathway for employment, offering a relatively inexpensive option for: employers to recruit and develop capability; and for Māori cadets to gain confidence, employment experience, general and job-specific skills, formal qualifications, industry networks, and employment.
Te Puni Kōkiri has worked to support successful planning and implementation of investments and to ensure that Te Puni Kōkiri is well placed to evidence success over the course of the investment. The work centred on clarifying outcomes and performance measures, developing the important questions that key stakeholders want answered, providing reporting templates and guidance to improve data collection and management information that will assist in the impact evaluation in 2012.
On-going progress has been made as administration of Māori blocks is returned to Owners or their Trusts. The disposal of Crown blocks is slow, because of the need to meet the requirements of the Protection Mechanism. Several blocks are in the final stages of having Te Puni Kōkiri administration completed, but the release from the provisions of Part II of the Māori Affairs Restructuring Act 1989 is reliant on owners being prepared to assume administration of their own land, and delays in achieving that objective can be encountered.
It was the intention in 2010/11 to clear 10 blocks through the Crown Land Disposal process. The state of progress was:
The remaining 4 blocks were still being processed as at 30 June 2011. As noted the 6 blocks above have been cleared, but final completions as to disposal are now reliant on other matters to be completed prior to being able to actually conclude the disposal and transfer of the title from Te Puni Kōkiri.
