Our Operating Content, Our Purpose
Te Mātāwai is focused on creating the conditions that allow our hapori, iwi, and Māori to develop their own solutions.
It’s important to emphasise that while the goal of reinstating te reo Māori in the homes of all Māori people drives our efforts, we identify that we do not possess the solutions ourselves. Those solutions reside with our whānau, hapori, iwi, and Māori communities.
To establish empowering conditions, Te Mātāwai confidently embraces a wide array of responsibilities, including financial investment, research, representation, strategic partnerships with the Crown, and the provision of leadership and advisory services to the Crown. Operating primarily from a Māori worldview, Te Mātāwai adeptly integrates the spiritual and physical realms while fostering connections between people and the environment.
The nature, function scope and intended operations
Te Mātāwai draws its practices from both Māori and Crown environments as we navigate these two worlds. As an organisation, we embrace values derived from a Māori ethos while also committing to the State Sector Code of Conduct and the guidelines of the Office of the Auditor-General.
Te Ture mō Te Reo Māori 2016 (the Act) provides the purpose of Te Mātāwai acting behalf of iwi and Māori to:
- provide leadership in promoting the wellbeing of te reo Māori on behalf of iwi, Māori, and communities;
- give effect to the Māori – Crown relationship relating to te reo Māori;
- advise and support Crown initiatives to revitalise te reo Māori;
- provide oversight and direction to the Māori Television Service.
