The IMM recommends that the Government:
1. Take immediate steps to progress a mechanism, by which the voice of tāngata whaikaha, can be formally included in all disability-related policy and legislative development, and any Crown–Māori partnership initiatives. This recommendation reflects and supports recommendation 11 of the IMM UNDRIP’s report regarding the implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Aotearoa New Zealand, June 2018.11
2. Act to implement recommendations 3 and 6 of the IMM UNDRIP’s report regarding the implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Aotearoa New Zealand, June 2018.12
3. In addressing poorer socioeconomic outcomes for Māori, specifically identify and address the disproportionate impacts of these inequities on tāngata whaikaha.