Wave 13 initiatives for Te Pūtahitanga o Te Waipounamu
Project Background
This evaluation focusses on the Te Pūtahitanga o Te Waipounamu Wave 13 commissioning process and outcomes for whānau. There are 50 entities in the wave, 42 of these were interviewed for this evaluation.
Te Pūtahitanga o Te Waipounamu, the commissioning agency, is the realisation of an iwi-led Whānau Ora model that invests directly in whānau for social impact to bring about positive change for whānau. Previous evaluations have identified the successful components of the whānau commissioning approach (Savage et al., 2016 – 2018). The initiatives are highly contextual, utilising local resources and experience
“With our Māori business initiatives they're so heavily scrutinized by government. They're over scrutinised and that's come out of the '80s when there was a whole of misappropriation of funds, remember those days. … So there is a lot of scrutiny, I don’t think Pākehā organisations or initiatives today are scrutinised in the same way” (Whānau from a kaupapa entity).”
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