Rangatiratanga: Planning Alternative Tomorrows with Hope

Abstract
Collective rights, goals and action planning for positive futures - The Whānau Rangatiratanga Project creates agency Te Tiriti and Indigenous rights realisation.
Keywords
Te Tiriti, rangatiratanga, indigenous rights, futures
Supplementary File(s)
PresentationAuthor Biography
Kym Hamilton
Kym is a kaupapa Māori researcher, evaluator, and facilitator. She has worked with and for Iwi organisations, the government, and the not-for-profit sector for 18 years. She is the director of Karearea: Institute for Change, a partnership company with the mission to create social and organisational change through evaluation, research, facilitation, and innovation. She has worked across a range of programmes and strategies, including in trade training, justice, te reo revitalisation, Māori education, family violence, health innovation, rangatahi and mental health, whānau ora, equity, housing, employment and training, Te Tiriti o Waitangi and regional regeneration. Kym is a technical advisor to the National Iwi Chairs Forum: Pou Tikanga and Iwi Monitoring Mechanism for the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and has assisted with projects including the Iwi pandemic response, Aotearoa 2020 Vision, and Constitutional Transformation.