Whaitua Mapping Tool
The Whaitua Map is an online mapping platform designed to visualise detailed information about local communities across Aotearoa. It highlights critical social and economic determinants of health such as healthcare access, housing quality, environmental conditions, and availability of services like vape shops, liquor outlets, and fast-food stores.
Public Release
Monitoring our Oranga: A Kaupapa Māori framework for collective learning and system transformation
The Monitoring our Oranga Framework is designed to guide collective learning, monitoring, and advocacy efforts within Māori communities.
Press Release
New "Whaitua Mapping Tool" and "Monitoring our Oranga" Framework places health information in whānau hands
The Āti Awa Toa Hauora Iwi Māori Partnership Board launched the Whaitua Mapping Tool alongside the Monitoring our Oranga Framework online today.
“Our dual launch coincides with the end of Matariki season, a significant time for reflection and renewal, marking a collective commitment to creating healthier, safer communities for current and future generations,” said Hikitia Ropata, Āti Awa Toa Hauora Iwi Māori Partnership Board’s Manahautū.
“We are indebted to the support of our mana whenua iwi, Te Āti Awa ki te Upoko a Māui, Āti Awa ki Whakarongotai and Ngāti Toa Rangatira. With special thanks to the team at Āti Awa Toa FM.”
Whakataukī
Whakapūpūtia mai ō mānuka, kia kore ai e whati
Cluster the branches of the mānuka so they will not break
Āti Awa Toa Hauora Partnership Board ( ĀATHPB)
The mission of Āti Awa Toa Hauora Partnership Board (ĀATHPB) is to create an oranga ecosystem where our mokopuna can thrive. The stories of our people are helping to shape our priorities and our efforts to address the unmet needs of whānau Māori within the current health system and achieve their aspirations for change. Their experiences and insights are supported by health data and other indicators, which reveal significant and compounding inequities for Māori in our rohe.
Aligned with our moemoeā of Oranga Whenua, Oranga Wai, Oranga Whānau, our Board champions a broad, kaupapa Māori view of health that protects and empowers mana motuhake, is compassionate, and ensures fairness for all. While our focus is on oranga for whānau Māori, as mana whenua, we are committed to uplifting the wellbeing of all who reside in our rohe.
We represent the interests and aspirations of two iwi: Te Āti Awa and Ngāti Toa Rangatira, and three rūnanga: Ātiawa ki Whakarongotai, Te Rūnanganui o Te Āti Awa ki te Upoko o te Ika a Maui and Te Rūnanga o Toa Rangatira. Our rohe broadly covers Kapiti, Porirua, Te Awa Kairangi and Pōneke.
Community Health Plan
- Our Community Health Plan sets out our initial priorities and work programme to achieve our mission – an oranga ecosystem for our mokopuna to thrive.
- It draws on the stories of our people, their health experiences and their aspirations for oranga – good health in all its dimensions.
- As mana whenua we support the wellbeing of Māori and of all whānau who reside in our rohe.
- We bring local solutions, relationships and experience and look forward to working in partnership with health and other decision-makers to make this plan a reality.
- This plan is a living document – we will update it as we progress towards our long-term goals
Hikitia Ropata
Manahautū
Relevant statistics
By the numbers
Key statistics relating to whānau Māori in our rohe:
46%
The Māori population in our rohe is much younger – 46% are under 25 compared with 29% of non-Māori.
80,109
Population of Māori living in our region is 80, 109 (17.1% of total estimated population of 467,880).
-5.1 years
Life expectancy for Māori in our rohe is 5.1 years less than for non-Māori.
16.2%
An estimated 16.2% of Māori in our rohe are NOT enrolled with a primary health care provider, this is five times the rate of non-Māori (3.2%).
40%
An estimated 40% of Māori in our rohe live in homes that are sometimes or always damp.
3.4 times
Māori aged 15 – 34 years old are 3.4 times more likely than non-Māori to be hospitalised for any condition.
5.2
Māori are 5.2 times more likely to be hospitalised for COPD than non-Māori.
About us
Ā MĀTOU WHAKAPAPA
Āti Awa Toa Hauora Partnership Board (ĀATHPB) is one of 15 recognised Iwi Māori Partnership Boards established under the Pae Ora Act 2022 to represent local Māori perspectives on improving hauora outcomes.
Our board
Mana Whakahāere
Meet our kaitiaki leading our ambition to improve hauora outcomes by investing and embedding kaupapa Māori approaches to benefit everyone in our rohe.
What we do
Ā MĀTOU MAHI
This whakaahua is the moemoeā of ĀATHPB. Developed over a series of hui our Poari held with iwi and rūnanga across our rohe, it reflects the aspirations of our iwi for intergenerational wellbeing.
Our Region
WHAITUA
ĀATHPB serves a diverse population with wide-ranging needs and aspirations. Access to appropriate health, disability, housing, transport and other health services including social support services varies across our rohe.
