Implementation at Scale
Adaptation
Collaboration for Collective Impact Experimentation
Leadership
Workforce
Equity
Line of Sight
Te Tiriti o Waitangi

Evidencing Mātauranga Māori systems as prevention solutions in all initiatives and ensure our kaupapa are embedded in the practice/s of te ao Māori

Alcohol and Smoking Reduction.

Working alongside system partners to amplify smokefree spaces and initiatives like the Smokefree submission to 2025 Aotearoa action plan.

Te Pūmotomoto is known as the final poutama of the heavens that Tane climbed to access Ngā Kete o te Wānanga, ko te Kete Tuauri, ko te Kete Tuatea, ko te Kete Aronui. These kete are known to hold qualities of our tipuna and insured the succession of our practices throughout our whakapapa.

Te Pūmotomoto is also known as a practice that utilised Kōauau to play above the fontanel of a newborn child within their most vulnerable stages of learning. This was a practice in which they insured the transmission of knowledge to the next generation.

‘Rangi’ has been placed strategically in the naming of this kaupapa to described the rising on the auahi (smoke/vape) when consumed to connect us with the past, present and future.

Co-creating kai sovereignty and kai secure communities.

Co-designing with community and kaupapa partners a local kai road map.

Resilience & Wellbeing

Co-designing collective well-being futures that build resilience and uplift mental wellbeing.

From the whakatauki “Tūwhitia te hopu, mairangatia te angitū” – “Feel the fear but do it anyway”.

Angitū is about pursuing your dreams, goals, aspirations. It is similar to climbing the Poutama of knowledge and achieving your overall wellbeing. Angitū is also about knowing and working through trials and tribulations with the intent and focus on the bigger picture/outcome. Angitū is used to describe life, where resiliency is crucial to achieving wellbeing.

Built Environments

Designing & strengthening built environments that reflect our identity & whakapapa.

This refers to our ancestral home, homeland, native land, inherited land - significant water or geographical feature of a tribe's homeland relating to the tribe's identity and the source of their livelihood.

This describes a body of water within a vessel, a place that represents the history and emotional attachment of the tribe, a place central to the identity of the people where they can go to be rejuvenated, a place that represents the hopes and aspirations of the people, the lifegiving waters from which they drink.

Play & Active Movement

Creating playful environments that reflect the whakapapa of our region.

Ensuring co-design spaces are tamariki & whānau are the centre to enable physical activity & play.

Hoake is a Nati word/kiwaha that describes the action or activation of something, it’s also used to bring people together on a kaupapa.

The wairua kawe of this word is to encourage playfulness in our communications, similar to the nature of a true Nati.

Ngati Porou Kaupoi would use this kiwaha to kick start their horses into gear when they were moving mobs of sheep or cattle (also a way of play for our rural whānau). It is only fitting to name this pou in acknowledgement of our NPEC heartlands Kaupoi team who were victorious in the 2022 Lochore Cup.