Mötika Tangata më Te Tiriti o Waitangi: Mate Korona më te Noho Rähui i Aotearoa Taumata 4 Family Violence Employment • • Ensure transparent Tiriti based equity across the government approach including continuation of targeted employment measures to support Mäori, whanau, business, employment and stimulus packages. • Ensure any fast-tracked development projects uphold indigenous rights to lands and resources, and enhance Mäori participation, in line with Te Tiriti and the human rights obligation of free, prior and informed consent. • Increase investment in tertiary education to lift the prosperity of Mäori, women, Pacific, disabled, migrant workers, ethnic minorities, marginalised youth, and older workers. • Increase funding and support for those at risk of violence. Direct funding to inclusive and accessible services, both prevention and response. These initiatives should reflect Tiriti partnership, support Mäori-led approaches and advance equitable outcomes. Ensure that the lessons from this pandemic are documented for future preparedness planning and implementation. Older people • Improve pandemic preparedness and planning for aged care facilities and ensure older people are provided with the opportunity to influence those decisions. • Provide continued support, including funding, to service providers which rely heavily on volunteers and provide support for older people • Ensure simple communications are available in as many languages as possible, and in a range of formats, to support older people who are migrants or in minority ethnic groups. Recognise that many kaumätua and kuia are not part of, or represented by, older people’s organisations and groups. Poverty • Consider the recommendations of the Child Poverty Action Group to build on the government’s COVID-19 welfare package. • Accept and implement the outstanding Welfare Expert Advisory Group recommendations for the improvement of the social welfare system. • Urgently implement recommendations 19 to 23 of that report, to ensure that those already receiving benefits, or facing a shift to welfare, receive adequate income support to maintain an adequate standard of living. Women • Collect data disaggregated by gender, and other grounds, in relation to those people receiving the COVID-19 wage subsidy. Housing • Ensure those living in homelessness and insecure housing who were housed by the government during Alert Level 4 are not made homeless again. • Use recovery investment to build healthy housing stock. • Develop a human rights-based housing strategy for Aotearoa New Zealand as recommended by the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing in 2020. Family violence • Collect disaggregated data on family violence during the pandemic and report on how different groups have been affected. 7