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Whakapapa - Our tüpuna are beside us; we are one with them as we carry out our role in thecreation of our future.Te Whakahoutanga2, 3, 6, 7, 15, 17, 21, 25, 26,29, 34, 35, 36Whänau Ora - WhänauInteraction, Innovation,Engagement Fund3, 4, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17, 20,22, 23,24, 25, 28, 29, 30,31,32, 34, 35A group of kaumätua led by Matua Whatarangi Winiata, JusticeEddie Durie, Gabrielle Rikihana and others have formed to provideTe Runanga o Raukawa with strong governance and leadershipbased on Mäori models of behaviour.Te Aho will be promoting a new Whänau Ora fund beingadministered by Te Puni Kökiri to support whänau to develop andimplement Whänau development plans.These plans include training programmes or services to meet theobjectives of the whänau or developing and providing informationand resources for whänau. The regional spend will be open toWhänau Ora providers as well as non-government organisationsincluding iwi, hapü, rünanga, whänau trusts and marae committees.Wairuatanga - Recognising that our relationships with each other and with our environment is morethan physical.He Parakuihi Rangatira1, 2,8, 10, 23, 26, 27, 28, 33The Te Aho Chairman and different members of the Te Ahoforums or working parties meet quarterly for breakfast with thetwo Mayors. These frank and honest discussions promote goodrelations and increase our respective understandings of each other.We would like to take this opportunity to affirm our continuedsupport of both Jenny and Brendan as they both take on anotherterm.Whanaungatanga - Recognising that our people are our wealth; foster our relationships andconnections to one another.Te Ao Mäori mai iRangitikei ki Whitireia1,2, 8, 10, 20, 21, 23, 27Te Röpü Pakihi - PoolNight8, 9, 11,16, 18, 19, 20,22,23,24, 26, 27, 30, 31, 33, 34,35, 36Te Ao Mäori Working party completed its development of a tikangaMäori model for engagement between local government andiwi. At Whakarongotai Marae, the group presented their findingsand reported to members of the five Iwi located between Poriruaand Manawatu. A new working party was formed to continuediscussions with the local authorities around implementation of themodel. Te Aho representatives met with Liz Kelly, now Porirua CityCouncil Deputy Mayor to discuss the model. She was supportiveof the concept and Te Aho provided assistance with her campaignin terms of helping to develop strategy and build a team to supporther election.The network held its annual pool competition at the LevinCosmopolitan Club in July. This function always brings together agood number of members and this year was no different. The senseof camaraderie and friendly competition promotes the networkingof businesses and builds our understanding of each other’sactivities.50

Pükengatanga - Teaching, preserving and creating knowledge as part of mätauranga Mäori andother ways of knowing.Whänau Ora -Collaborative Whänau OraEOI2, 4 6, 8, 11, 13, 15, 16,17, 20, 22, 23, 25, 29, 30,34, 35Te Äti Awa ki Whakarongotai, Ngäti Raukawa, and Muaüpoko,co-developed a kaupapa based model for the design and delivery ofWhänau Ora services based on the principle of Mäori Managementof Matters Mäori. The decision for the joint proposal for has beendeferred until next year however the Iwi groups have decided togo ahead with developing their structural arrangements, traintheir staff and re-engineer the delivery of their existing contractedservices in line with the principles of their Whänau CentredServices proposal. The Iwi group has decided to combine resourcesto employ a coordinator to further develop the proposal forgovernment consideration in the new year.The contributions of TeAho to the wellbeingof the Kapiti andHorowhenua communities2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,14,15, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23,25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 35, 36As we round up our third year of operation, it has becomeincreasingly evident that we need to develop a means to measurethe contributions of Te Aho to the wellbeing of the Kapiti andHorowhenua communities.Linda Pene has begun planning a kaupapa based evaluation of thestrategy using the He Oranga Hapori model for Mäori wellbeing.This activity will produce the following outputs:a) Completion a case study on Te Aho; and the implementationarrangements of the strategy itself.b) Integrate the model for developing He Oranga Hapori (Mäoricommunity wellbeing) as a means of measuring Te Aho’s annualcontribution to the survival of Mäori as a people.c) Provide an analysis of that contribution with anyrecommendations for future implementation.This evaluation project will be completed in the next three monthsand reported upon in the first quarter of 2011.Rangatiratanga - Exhibiting the attributes of a rangatira, humility, generosity, setting of goodexamples, and diplomacy in binding people together to good and just causes.Emeritus ProfessorWhatarangi Winiatastands down as Presidentof the Mäori Party2, 4, 6, 8, 17, 20, 21, 22,23,24, 26,27, 30, 31, 34,35, 36Members of Te Röpü Pakihi and Te Aho supported the farewellspeech of founding president, Professor Whatarangi Winiata atOmahu Marae recently.A unifying force, Matua Whatarangi made his farewells after sevenyears in the job, his parting gift to the party was not only hispresident’s report but a special paper he had written titled “MäoriManagement of Tino Rangatiratanga.”A unifying force, Matua Whatarangi made his farewells after sevenyears in the job, his parting gift to the party was not only hispresident’s report but a special paper he had written titled “MäoriManagement of Tino Rangatiratanga.”Co leader Tariana Turia made the following comment “I mihi to theincredible leadership, the breadth of vision, the enduring wisdom ofMatua.”For us locally, it means that our rangatira is back amongstus providing his guidance and support to our efforts forrangatiratanga locally. His love and attention continues toinfluence our endeavours to maximise our own contributions forthe survival of people.51