Practice Foundations: iwi-led social innovation lab

with Eruera Tarena

This months practice foundations is with Eruera Tarena who is the Kaiwhakatere – Executive Director for Tokona te Raki: Māori Future Makers, an iwi-led social innovation lab housed under the mana of Ngāi Tahu.  Tokona te Raki uses social innovation to achieve equity in education, employment, and income for all Māori in the Ngāi Tahu takiwā, and beyond.  They are unweaving broken systems, imagining new horizons, driving systemic change, and empowering rangatahi Māori to lead long-term structural change to address challenges at their root cause.

Eruera shared insights and learnings from Tokona’s approach to iwi-led systems change and how they are growing indigenous people, practices and tools for long-term transformation.

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Eruera’s slides are available for download here

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