Runanga Services

The structure and day-to-day operations of the runanga are based on the Ngati Porou Potential Framework which is closely aligned to the macro-Maori development policy “Realising Maori Potential”.

Ngati Porou Potential Framework

Oranga Whanau (Wellbeing)

The Oranga Whanau unit offers a range of services designed to respond to the immediate and specific social needs of individuals and their whanau. They include:

• housing support and advice
  
• budgeting
  
• community injury prevention
  
• family start
  
• parents as first teachers
  
• social workers in schools
  
• nutrition
  
• counselling
  
• strengthening families
  
• restorative justice
  
• whanau support services

If you are interested in any of these services, please contact us or email info@ngatiporou.com

Matauranga (Policy, planning and knowledge acquisition)

The Matauranga team manages key education and policy development projects. They are:

Co-production

Co-production, a long-term relationship between Te Puni Kokiri and the runanga, builds on the runanga's involvement in Capacity Building, Local Level Solutions and Whanau Development Action Research programmes. Key investment areas are:

• Knowledge Management Strategy – a systematic approach to the collection, use and transmission of knowledge
  
• Hapu Success Framework – helping hapu provide governance for the tribe through their representatives on the runanga board
  
• Hapu Governance entities – helping hapu manage a range of responsibilities
  
• Tribal Curriculum – helping restore to Ngati Porou descendants knowledge about their identity
  
• Business Incubator – researching best practice options to establish a business incubator on the East Coast in the next one to three years. See Nga Korero o Te Wa for the latest updates on Co-production.

ETER (E Tipu e Rea)

E Tipu e Rea (ETER), a contract with the Ministry of Education, aims to:

• strengthen governance, management and leadership in schools/kura
  
• ensure high quality, effective teaching in schools/kura
  
• enable schools/kura to provide high quality ICT (Information and Communication technology) based learning opportunities for all students. Please see www.terangitawaea.com for more information
  
• increase access to high quality early childhood education
  
• support parents, whanau and hapu and schools/kura to implement Ngati Porou curriculum guidelines.

Specific priority areas for this contract are:

• educational facilitation, governance, management and administrative services to enable collective educational improvement in the Ngati Porou East Coast region
  
• Te Rangitawaea Strategy – ICT/digital media strategy for all Ngati Porou East Coast Schools gives Ngati Porou rangatahi the opportunity to showcase their creative talents using new media and new technology
  
• Professional Leadership – supporting first time principals
  
• Professional Practice – building the capacity and capabilities of students, teachers and schools in ICT and Matauranga Ngati Porou
  
• Early Childhood Education – lifting participation rates of targeted communities and supporting the role of families and communities in the learning process
  
• Te Reo o Ngati Porou – a Te Reo Ake o Ngati Porou Language Strategy
  
• Ngati Porou Curriculum guidelines – developing and implementing Ngati Porou curriculum guidelines.

The aim of the these undertakings is to:

• preserve, protect, retain and grow Matauranga Ngati Porou
  
• build capacity, support and strengthen Ngati Porou East Coast communities of learners
  
• achieve high quality learning outcomes for Ngati Porou students.

Ngati Porou Database

The Ngati Porou Database is a register of Ngati Porou people. You must register as a member of Te Runanga o Ngati Porou to participate in all elections or voting.
If you are of Ngati Porou descent and would like to register, or have already registered and wish to amend your personal details, please visit Ngati Porou register.

Connect a Nati

Connect A Nati helps disconnected Ngati Porou whanau re-establish a connection with their whanau, marae and hapu.

If the administrator is unable to make a connection, a whakapapa expert is asked to identify links. Sets of protocols have been established to ensure the parties involved are agreeable to connecting with each other before actually meeting face to face.

E Nati

E Nati enables Ngati Porou marae and hapu to develop marae and hapu websites to help increase communication. Please see Ngati Porou organisations for our marae websites.

If you are interested in any of these services, please contact us or email info@ngatiporou.com

Rawa (Economic development)

The current focus is developing a sustainable supply and demand for Ngati Porou tourism within the rohe, in particular positioning Hikurangi maunga as a key destination for international and domestic visitors.

For more information on the Hikurangi tours please contact us or email info@ngatiporou.com

Roopu Tautoku (Corporate Services)

The corporate services team ensures the smooth operation of day-to-day functions, such as finance and human resources, which enable the organisation to provide its key services.

• Support to the runanga Board
  
• The office of the CEO
  
• Manages the Shareholder Investment
  
• Coordinate the Calender of Events
  
• Communication with key stakeholders