Appendix 5: Examples of strategies and plans relevant to reducing child poverty

Effectiveness of arrangements for reducing child poverty.

The following are examples of strategies and plans relevant to reducing child poverty:

  • Te Pae Tawhiti: Our Future – The Ministry of Social Development's strategy seeks three key organisational shifts, including supporting long-term social and economic development.42
  • Te Pae Tata: Māori Strategy and Action Plan – The Ministry of Social Development's plan for Māori seeks to support long-term social and economic development for Māori. It includes actions to improve access to sustainable housing and increase employment opportunities.43
  • Pacific Prosperity: Our people, our solutions, our future – The Ministry of Social Development's plan for Pasifika seeks to support long-term social and economic development for Pacific peoples. It includes actions to improve access to healthy and sustainable housing and increase sustainable employment opportunities.44
  • Te Ara Amiorangi: Our Path, Our Direction – The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment's organisational strategy defines success in five ways, including having people who are prosperous, adaptable, skilled, and engaged in safe and fulfilling work. There is a focus on growing prosperity and opportunities, as well as protecting people through the economic systems it regulates.45

The following are examples of strategies and plans that are relevant to mitigating the impacts of socio-economic disadvantage:

  • Ka Hikitia, Ka Hāpaitia: The Māori Education Strategy – This is a cross-agency strategy about what education services need to do to achieve systematic change in education and support Māori learners and their whānau, hapū, and iwi to achieve excellent and equitable outcomes.46
  • Oranga Tamariki Action Plan – This plan is a cross-agency programme of work to improve outcomes for the children and young people with the greatest needs. The focus is on improving key health, education, and housing outcomes for children and young people in care, supported by data- and information-sharing practices between public organisations.47
  • Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) strategies – In July 2023, the Minister of Health published six strategies under the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022. The New Zealand Health Strategy sets the direction for the health system over the next 10 years towards more equitable, accessible, cohesive, and people-centred care.48
  • Our Strategy: Improving oranga for current and future generations – Inland Revenue's strategy seeks to achieve four relevant outcomes. These are the inter-generational well-being of the people of Aotearoa New Zealand, working with other organisations, people receiving their entitlements, and revenue available to fund government programmes and services.49
  • The Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority's strategic focus areas – These strategic focus areas are related to energy efficiency, empowering energy users, and accelerating renewable energy, with relevant outcomes such as helping New Zealanders make homes warmer and healthier without increasing their energy bills.50
  • Te Aorerekura – This national strategy sets out a framework to eliminate family violence and sexual violence, to drive government action in a unified way, and harness public support and community action. It includes addressing the causes of violence, including social and economic deprivation and inequalities.51

42: Ministry of Social Development, Te Pae Tawhiti – Our future, at msd.govt.nz.

43: Ministry of Social Development (2020), Te Pae Tata – Māori Strategy and Action Plan, at msd.govt.nz.

44: Ministry of Social Development (2019), Pacific Prosperity – Our people, our solutions, our future, at msd.govt.nz.

45: Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (2022), Annual report 2021/22, at mbie.govt.nz.

46: Ministry of Education (2024), "Ka Hikitia – Ka Hāpaitia | The Māori Education Strategy", at education.govt.nz.

47: New Zealand Government (2022), Oranga Tamariki Action Plan, at orangatamarikiactionplan.govt.nz.

48: New Zealand Government (2023), New Zealand Health Strategy, at health.govt.nz.

49: Inland Revenue (2024), Our Strategy: Improving oranga for current and future generations, at ird.govt.nz.

50: Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (2025), "Strategic focus areas", at eeca.govt.nz.

51: New Zealand Government (2021), Te Aorerekura: The National Strategy to Eliminate Family Violence and Sexual Violence, at tepunaaonui.govt.nz.