Appendix 1: Consultations and methods Consultations and methods Partnership approach to the Guidelines The Commission worked in partnership with Pou Tangata and Pou Tikanga from the National Iwi Chairs Forum to lead the development and drafting of these Guidelines. The development/drafting partnership involved the Commission acting as the lead partner, making the decisions and taking up the majority of drafting and consultation work, with Pou Tangata providing extremely valuable contributions in the form of advice, review and feedback on the Guidelines as they were drafted. The Commission has endeavoured to act in accordance with honourable Kāwanatanga ensuring responsiveness to Tino Rangatiratanga. This Commission is in the very early stages of partnership with the NICF and learning how to partner, and share power and decision making. We also acknowledge that even as a small independent Crown entity there is an imbalance of resources with more resources available to the Crown versus those available to the National Iwi Chairs Forum as a collective body representing the Tino Rangatiratanga partner at the national level. The Commission also relied upon its close working relationship with Community Housing Aotearoa (CHA) and many others in the preparation of the draft Guidelines. CHA took the primary partner role and worked closely with Te Matapihi as the tangata whenua representative body in its own partnership structures, and took primary responsibility for engagement with its own stakeholders. Pre-drafting consultation Prior to the drafting of the Guidelines, preliminary consultations were held with a wide range of stakeholders from June 2020 to the end of August. During this period, the Commission and CHA convened a number of hui to seek feedback on a discussion paper. CHA provided invaluable stakeholder engagement with its stakeholder networks, and analysed and collated thematic feedback for the Commission. This thematic feedback informed the drafting of the Guidelines. These hui were intended to be run as kanohi ki te kanohi (face to face) engagements. However, this engagement had to be adjusted as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Meetings were instead conducted predominately via Zoom with participation by people from around Aotearoa. Appendix 2: Key international standards on the right to a decent home Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) • Article 25.1 31