- What works
- The basics
- Children and young people
- Format and delivery
- Subject matter for children
- Subject matter for teenagers and young people
- Disclosure and consent to participate for children and young people
- Māori
- Pasifika
- Migrants and refugees
- Rainbow community
- People with disabilities
- Tools, templates and examples
- Case studies
What works for Māori audiences
Kaupapa Māori primary prevention activities focus on the wider context of upholding and promoting mana, and the crucial role that whānau play in this.
Why Māori audiences are unique
Māori experience disproportionate rates of violence, sexual assault, and a range of other negative outcomes like socio-economic disadvantage. Activities aimed at addressing sexual violence among Māori should avoid blaming culture, and instead look to use Māori culture to build resilience and support victims.
Kaupapa Māori approaches
Te Āo Māori (Māori world views) hold that each person is imbued with mana and that sexual violence directly impacts on the mana of the victim and their whānau. For Māori audiences, Kaupapa Māori prevention activities that strengthen whānau and communities are as important as individual-based activities.
Organisations working with Māori should:
- draw on concepts, values, and beliefs that are meaningful for Māori
- ground approaches in Māori language, culture, and worldviews
- employ cultural imperatives such as whakapapa, tikanga, wairua, tapu, mauri, and manau
- use multi-level approaches that acknowledge the importance of whānau, hāpu, and iwi, as well as working with individuals.
Kaupapa Māori interventions should be offered as an option to Māori — but keep in mind that there are diverse cultural realities among Māori. It's important to ask people if they're comfortable with a kaupapa Māori approach and not to make assumptions about their cultural identity.
There are six key themes to Kaupapa Māori prevention activities:
References
- Ngā Kaitiaki Mauri — TOAH-NNEST
- Kōrero Awhi — E Tu Whānau
- Actions for providers and pracitioners — E Tu Whānau
- Katoa Ltd website
- Rangahau website
- A Research Ethic for Studying Maori and Iwi Provider Success — Ministry of Social Development (2004)
- Outline of Kaupapa Māori research methodologies — Communities Waikato (2007) (PDF 54KB)
- What works for Maori: A Synthesis of Selected Literature — Williams and Cram (2012)
- Developing a Kaupapa Māori Framework for Whanau Ora — Kara et. al (2011) (PDF 54KB)
- Decolonising methodologies: Research and indigenous peoples — Smith, L. (1999)