Whanaungatanga Model of Funding with Maraea Teepa Ngai Tuhoe

Nested inside of Oranga Tamariki, Tākai is a community-led movement to support whānau with a vision of ‘kia matua rautia - a thriving village raising children together’.

In this session Maraea Teepa (Ngai Tuhoe), Manager, Voices of Whānau and Community shares Tākai’s journey towards a developing fit-for-purpose and values-led approach to investing into communities for intergenerational wellbeing. 

We will explore and wānanga around the practices that are emerging as important to making a shift towards relational commissioning, and putting into practice the all of government Social Sector Commissioning approach. Lessons from scaling the Whanaungatanga Model of Funding approach into another agency and emerging findings from interviews with organisations on the other side of the commissioning relationship will also be shared.