• • • Securing sector leadership. Strong leadership is required from government and violence/disability/justice sector organisations to ensure a shared understanding of, and commitment to, ongoing change and development. Resourcing of these processes. Specific resources will be needed to promote partnerships and develop relationships.172 Supporting a twin track approach to prevention and response. A twin track approach to prevention means eliminating barriers - barriers to disabled people’s full participation in society and barriers to the full realisation of their rights, as well as the implementation of specific strategies to prevent violence. This twin track approach means that government strategies to prevent and respond to violence against disabled people must focus both on structural drivers of violence and abuse as well as responses to individuals and whānau. • Adopting an ecological model understanding of disability. Central to this is an analysis of how systems of power put disabled people at risk, as opposed to disabled people being inherently damaged or at risk. • An ecological approach to prevention describes four levels of response to the barriers and gaps identified in the previous section. The four levels are: 1. individual biological and personal factors 2. relationships – a person’s close peers, family and partners 50 Human Rights Commission 3. community – the settings and social environments in which people live, play and work173 4. structural factors which the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) say are: …the broad societal factors that help create a climate in which violence is encouraged or inhibited. These factors include social and cultural norms that support violence as an acceptable way to resolve conflicts. Other large societal factors include the health, economic, educational, and social policies that help to maintain economic or social inequalities between groups in society.174 These principles underpin a constructive whole of society response that incorporates the knowledge, experience and expertise of tāngata whaikaha Māori and disabled people at every level; addressing structural barriers, making mainstream services accessible, developing the specialist services that will keep particular groups of disabled people safe, and helping tāngata whaikaha Māori and disabled people recover from violence-related harm. These principles guide the process for implementing the recommendations that follow. The recommendations are extensive which reflects the extent of the work to be done.