Planned Area of Action

Area of Action 15

Enhance capacity of Maori, Pacific and other ethnic service providers.

Responsibility
Lead 
Other
TPK, MPIA, MSD and DCYFS Agencies represented on the Capacity Building Senior Officials Group and Internal Affairs
Action details

Continue to monitor and implement Maori and Pacific capacity building projects.

In addition, investigate options and make recommendations

1.  for providing assistance, for making funding applications and administering contract compliance requirements to:

  • Maori service providers; and
  • Pacific and other ethnic service providers; and

   2. for building the capacity of other ethnic providers to deliver services to their communities.

Link to goals and objectives

Goal 4. Objectives 4(1)(iii), 4(2)(ii).

Rationale

Any approach to preventing family violence within Maori communities must ensure that Maori themselves are given the means to take control over their collective lives. The Maori focus groups at the community workshops highlighted the need for more services designed and delivered by Maori for Maori. To ensure these services are as effective as possible, the capacity of Maori providers to deliver these services needs to be enhanced and the infrastructure of Maori organisations must be sufficiently capable of maintaining the capacity of providers over time.

Similarly, the Pacific focus groups at the community workshops raised the need to provide extra assistance and mentoring to build the management structures and capacity of current Pacific providers to deliver services to their communities and to support the establishment of additional Pacific service providers. There is also a need to enhance the capacity of other ethnic providers to deliver services to their community.

The ability of Maori and other ethnic-specific service providers to obtain essential funding and administer contract compliance requirements would

be greatly enhanced with some assistance. Currently there are no formal mechanisms in place to help provider groups.

Preliminary targets

To have increased by June 2006 the capacity of Maori, Pacific and other ethnic providers to:

  • deliver services to their communities;
  • make funding applications; and
  • administer contract compliance requirements.
Preliminary measures
  • Framework for needs analysis of ethnic service providers is developed and agreed to.
  • Needs analysis is completed according to the framework's criteria, and recommendations for ethnic capacity building are made (if needed).
  • Recommendations are implemented where relevant.
  • Options are identified for providing assistance to Maori, Pacific and other ethnic service providers to make funding applications and administer compliance requirements, and recommendations are made and implemented where relevant.
  • Feedback from Maori, Pacific and other ethnic service providers at the end of the five-year timeframe indicates an increased capacity to deliver services to their communities, to make funding applications and to administer contract compliance requirements.
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