OVERVIEW OF MANA KĀINGA
The Mana Kāinga programme is designed to support Māori communities in achieving sustainable development and self-determination. It focuses on empowering whānau (families) by providing access to resources, tools, and knowledge that align with their cultural values and aspirations. Key components include facilitating education, promoting economic opportunities, and enhancing social wellbeing. The programme emphasises a holistic approach, integrating Māori perspectives and practices to foster community resilience and growth. Through collaboration with local organisations and stakeholders, Mana Kāinga aims to create a positive impact that lasts for future generations.
‘Mana Kāinga’ is the first kaupapa Māori curriculum developed through wānanga and co-production design, to advance and establish new Housing Navigators.
HOKINGA MAHARA
Last year was a remarkable journey for the Mana Kāinga Programme, and we are thrilled to share our achievements with you. Through dedication and collective effort, we have made significant strides in enhancing the mana and quality of life for our whānau.
Te Matapihi is dedicated to strengthening workforce capability across the housing system.
Congratulations to this amazing team of Māori leaders, driving innovative papakāinga developments and projects in 2024!
We’re excited to announce that our next Mana Kāinga cohort begins in March 2025. Stay tuned for more updates!
Te Matapihi is dedicated to strengthening workforce capability across the housing system.
Congratulations to this amazing team of Māori leaders, driving innovative papakāinga developments and projects in 2024!
We’re excited to announce that our next Mana Kāinga cohort begins in March 2025. Stay tuned for more updates!
“We are incredibly proud of the progress made and the positive impact on our whānau. Together, we are building a future where everyone can thrive.”
Key Highlights:
Empowering Leaders: We successfully trained and supported emerging Māori housing leaders with their real-life housing and papakāinga development projects, equipping them with the skills and knowledge to navigate the complexities of creating thriving kāinga.
Community Engagement: Our wānanga brought together whānau, hapū, and iwi, fostering deep connections and collaborative efforts to address housing needs.
Health and Wellbeing: By integrating essential health services, tauira can ensure that their community members receive comprehensive care tailored to their needs.
Real-World Impact: Participants developed and advanced real-world Māori housing projects, directly contributing to the betterment of their communities.
Mana Kāinga
The right to pursue kāinga that meets the needs and aspirations of whānau, hapū, iwi and communities
Mana Whenua
The fundamental right that kāinga connects and supports whānau to whakapapa, whenua, wai and kai
Mana Whānau
Whānau revolution
The Background of the Mana Kāinga Programme
It is recognised that there is a severe shortage of capacity and capability within the Māori Housing sector required to navigate the complexities, achieve high-level policy outcomes, and participate in fundamental strategic engagements for Māori. This shortage exists across the housing continuum and, in our view, is one of the key factors in the recent decline in dictators (such as declining home ownership and increasing housing deprivation).
Te Matapihi has long advocated for the need to have a clear ‘point of entry’ for Māori in this system, ability and respond to the MBIE He Whare Āhuru Report 2014.
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He mana motuhake, mana whenua, mana whānau
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Mātauranga Māori hei tauira
Leadership as Māori innovation
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Ultimately, Mana Kāinga will build new connections between Māori organisations and the science and innovation system for Māori Housing Sector capability advancement.
Ko Wai Mātou? | Who are we?
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Te Matapihi he Tirohanga mō te Iwi Trust (“Te Matapihi”) is the independent national peak body for Māori housing, established by the Māori housing sector in 2010 as “a window offering a vision to the people”
Te Whatu comprises a committee of like-minded māori who have advocated alongside Te Matapihi for the Programme.
Our Kairaranga are our kaimahi who work toward delivering the programme out to the motu.
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Te Matapihi He Tirohanga mō te Iwi Trust (“Te Matapihi”) is the independent national peak body for Māori housing established by the Māori housing sector in 2010 as “a window offering a vision to the people”
The organisation officially launched as the national peak body for Māori housing at the watershed 2012 National Māori Housing Conference in Waitangi.
Te Matapihi is now uniquely positioned to engage with Māori and Government, and for more than a decade have successfully built relationships across the Māori housing sector, brokered solutions with Government, and developed an acute awareness of the critical interventions urgently needed to address the Māori housing crisis. Te Matapihi board and staff are located across Aotearoa and provide a wealth of knowledge and direct experience at all points along the Māori housing continuum.
Te Tima | The Team
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Tammy Tauroa
Ngāti Kuri
Te Whatu - Steering Group
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Rau Hoskins
Ngāpuhi
Te Whatu - Steering Group
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Jenny Lee-Morgan
Waikato
Te Whatu - Steering Group
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Wayne Knox
Waikato
Te Whatu - Steering Group
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Caitlin Papuni-Mclellan
Te Whakatohea, Ngāti Porou me Hāmoa
Ngā Kairaranga - Working Group
Project Manager
FAQ’s
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Mana Kāinga is the first ever Māori Housing Leadership Programme and is administered by Te Matapihi he Tirohanga mō te Iwi Trust (Te Matapihi), as the national peak body for Māori housing.
Mana Kāinga was established due to the urgent need to grow the capability and capacity within the Māori housing sector and intends to support emerging Māori housing leaders to navigate the complexities of creating thriving kāinga.
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Mana Kāinga will be delivered via in-person wānanga in various rohe throughout the motu, as well as via wānanga ipurangi (online learning).
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Tauira will have the opportunity to engage with Māori Housing experts across the housing continuum and gain insights from leading exemplars across the motu.
All tauira participating in our 15-week programme are required to bring a real-world Māori housing project and will develop these projects through wānanga alongside experts and fellow tauira. The kaupapa Māori programme will explore key issues across the housing continuum as they relate to the themes of whakapapa, whenua, whānau, wai and kai, whare, and whai rawa.
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