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WHANAU TAHI ROADSHOWS

The National Urban Maori Authority and Te Whanau O Waipareira will be presenting and demonstrating its Whanau Ora enabling IT system, Whanau Tahi, throughout the country. Whanau Tahi is a specially designed IT system with capability to maintain and manage information and data across multiple sectors (health, education, social, economic), contracts, individual, and Whanau. Built on the robust Microsoft xRM platform with expected 'native' and rich Microsoft features, Whanau Tahi is an IT solution that is innovative, unique, and 'outcomes-based, with ability to meet Funder, Provider, and Whanau needs. We invite all interested Whanau Ora and other Community Providers to attend.

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GOVERNMENT MEDIA RELEASE

Friday 29th October, 2010
The Whänau Ora Governance Group today announced 25 providers/provider collectives had been selected to develop and deliver whänau centred services to families around the country.

WELCOME

In 2003, a National Urban Maori Authority was formed as a political voice for city-dwelling Maori. Prior to the formal establishment of Urban Maori Authorities (UMA), Maori traditional structures revolved around Iwi, Hapu and Whanau groups. Yet, the reality is that following the mass migration to the cities starting in the 1950s, 86 percent of Maori now live in urban locations, with 70 percent living away from their tribal roots.

Maori recognised the need to provide a base for those who had left rural areas and the support of their home marae to come to the bigger cities for work and to start families. This saw the establishment of The Maori Community Centre which used to stand opposite Victoria Park in Auckland, and other similar ventures around the country.

NUMA was established to further the sustainable development and coordination of UMA affiliates by bringing them together as a national collective. NUMA provides overarching strategic policies and service development advice to all collective affiliates.

Heralding the birth of urban Maori authorities like: Te Whanau o Waipareira; Manukau Urban Maori Authority; Te Runanga o Kirikiriroa; Te Roopu Awhina ki Porirua Trust; and Te Runanga o Nga Maata Waka, formed NUMA in 2003. The objectives were to further the sustainable development and coordination of Urban Maori authorities so that better outcomes for whanau are achieved. (He Kohinga Kete, 2004).

NUMA is made up of the following five organisations:

  • Te Whanau O Waipareira Trust

  • Manukau Urban Maori Authority Incorporated

  • Te Runanga o Nga Maata Waka Incorporated

  • Te Roopu Awhina ki Porirua Trust

  • Te Runanga o Kirikiriroa Charitable Trust