• Ensuring broader coverage for those currently not eligible for social assistance • Increasing the availability of quality affordable housing • Increasing rates of affordable home ownership • Enhancing protections available to tenants • Facilitating access to free vocational training and tertiary education Collaborate to realise rights What collaborations are needed, between government departments, within our communities, with civil society, between employers and employees, to ensure these policies are effective at realising the human rights of those working households experiencing poverty? What is needed to ensure partnership between tangata whenua and others to implement a well-coordinated Tiriti strategy? By, for example: Implementing a living wage: adopt the necessary legislative and administrative measures, including by revising the Minimum Wage Act, to ensure that all workers, without discrimination, receive a minimum wage that enables them to have decent living conditions for themselves and their families53 Centre Te Tiriti in a human rights-based approach What is needed to ensure Te Tiriti based partnership throughout our response to poverty in working households and the pandemic? By, for example: Facilitating a just transition to meet the SDGs and a just recovery from COVID-19, based on partnership, self-determination and sovereignty Measures needed to address poverty in working households Plan to eradicate poverty Keep people employed in fair employment conditions Create jobs that realise the right to decent work Facilitate greater workforce participation and diversity Increase earnings and fair remuneration Enhance workforce skills through education and training Strengthen the social security net Enhance housing affordability and security of tenure Raise awareness and reduce stigma, enhance dignity Facilitate a ‘just transition’ and ‘just recovery’ 22 Human Rights Responses to Poverty in Working Households