The Whānau Ora commissioning model puts whānau at the centre of services and supports their needs, building on their strengths to achieve their aspirations.

Over the last decade, the Whānau Ora model has delivered positive results for whānau across Aotearoa New Zealand, and is an embodiment of our delivery approach, supporting our vision of Thriving Whānau.

Te Puni Kōkiri believes that there is opportunity to leverage the proven success of the Whānau Ora model to deliver further success for New Zealanders with distinct needs.

Strategic outcome we want to achieve

The public sector adopts the Whānau Ora commissioning model. 

What difference will we make? 

• Facilitate robust data collection and use, enabling a strong evidence base for the effectiveness of the Whānau Ora commissioning model 
• Public sector agencies actively participate in Whānau Ora commissioning 
• Whānau can lead their own development, independent from government. 

What do we want to do? 

• Promote system settings to enable whānau-centred, locally led, government enabled approaches in service delivery 
• Provide tools to support agencies with the commissioning of Whānau Ora, including the development of monitoring functions
• Improve measurement of whānau capacity to achieve outcomes through the expansion project 
• Influence the use of approaches that recognise whānau as best placed to determine their futures 
• Influence the use of approaches that support outcomes for whānau through locally led and government enabled solutions 
• Influence approaches that support whānau to move beyond ‘crisis response’ and ‘intervention’, to a strengths-based model outlining their aspirations as a whanau and a plan to achieve them 
• Complement the government’s approach to social investment, ensuring high quality evidence on Whānau Ora impacts can inform decisions on future social sector investment.