Election 2017 - Party Policies - Economy/Maori Affairs - Maori Economic Development
27th May 17, 9:17am
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Maori Economic Develoment
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- Support equitable access for Māori to secure employment and decent wages.
- Increase resources to enable Māori and those in precarious employment to access information on employment rights and unions.
- Encourage research to help identify discriminatory workplace and institutional practises.
- Support effective equal employment opportunities programmes, training and support to encourage Māori and other statistically lower- paid groups into higher-paid areas of employment.
- Support Māori to have control of their education and contribute to the education of all New Zealanders.
- Read more here.
- Develop regional infrastructure partnerships with post-settlement iwi.
- Enhanced funding should be used with a greater focus on working with Māori as a basis to bridge partnership arrangements between the Crown, iwi, and the private sector to grow New Zealand’s asset base.
- A refocused Office of Treaty Settlements would help to foster these partnerships.
- Reprioritise the existing Maori ICT development fund to focus on Maori research, innovation and development which will be governed transparently by Te Puni Kokiri with support from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.
- Read more here and here.
- Implement the recommendations from the Turongo Māhina-a-Rangi Leaders by Design Summit 2017.
- Support and harness the inner ‘tutu’ of every rangatahi to realise their entrepreneurial potential through re-purposing Matariki X as a three-day workshop offered throughout Aotearoa.
- Provide low interest business start-up loans for rangatahi entrepreneurs.
- Provide research and development grants to support Māori businesses.
- Set up community-based Māori innovation and entrepreneurship hubs.
- Read more here, here and here.
- Increase Maori median income by 20 per cent.
- Reduce Maori unemployment from 11.9 per cent (Dec 2016) to 7.5 per cent.
- Increase Maori exports by 9 per cent per annum; and promote enterprises and offer investors an opportunity to be involved in a new wave of development and expansion of the Maori economy.
- Improve Māori education achievement and transition to work including, ensuring young Māori have the skills to contribute to a highly-skilled and productive workforce.
- Increase Māori and Pasifika Trades Training delivery to 5,000 learners by 2019 and focus intensive support on Māori youth who are not in employment, education or training.
- Read more here and here.
- Restructure the Ministry for Māori Development.
- End Whanau Ora and redirect resources into programmes that work for all Māori.
- Strengthen the structures of the Māori Women's Welfare League, Māori Wardens and Te Kōhanga Reo.
- Address entrenched problems associated with the rating of multiple owned Māori land and rates remission.
- Read more here.
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