Priority | Te Tiriti o Waitangi Priority | Treaty of Waitangi

Goal

Te Pātaka Whaioranga – Pharmac honours and actively upholds Te Tiriti o Waitangi across all our work to achieve the best health outcomes for Māori within our available resources.

What we’ve heard

”Pharmac’s Te Tiriti o Waitangi obligations should sit at the centre of all Pharmac’s decision-making.”

Outcomes

  • Te Tiriti is embedded and is fundamental to Pharmac’s objectives and working culture, and sits alongside our purpose.
  • Te Tiriti is reflected in the way we plan for, resource, organise and deliver our work as an organisation, and we measure and monitor organisational Te Tiriti compliance.
  • All our work delivers for Māori, with Māori, by Māori. This is planned for and appropriately resourced across all directorates.

How we will measure performance

  • Routine monitoring of our organisation’s Te Tiriti o Waitangi compliance, and planning to address areas for improvement.

August 2022 update

We have:

  • adopted Ngā Uaratanga – the values for Te Pātaka Whaioranga (Pharmac) 
  • completed an initial review of key policies and processes for alignment with Te Tiriti and started addressing recommendations
  • identified and developed draft Te Tiriti policy and are incorporating feedback from our Māori Advisory Rōpū to finalise.
  • reflected Te Tiriti in our organisational strategy, long-term plan (SOI) and annual plans (SPE).

By 2023 we aim to have: 

  • developed measures for Te Tiriti which reflect Pharmac’s commitment to Te Tiriti
  • created an approach to implement our Te Tiriti policy
  • embedded routine monitoring of our organisation’s Te Tiriti o Waitangi compliance, and planning to address areas for improvement.

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