The purpose of this report is to explore how kaupapa Māori services support wāhine Māori affected by violence. We reviewed the literature about kaupapa Māori responses to violence to wāhine Māori, and meeting their justice needs. Over the course of three months in 2018, we also interviewed 15 kaupapa Māori service providers who support wāhine Māori harmed by violence across nine organisations.

We explored five key objectives:
• To understand the justice needs of wāhine Māori harmed by violence;
• To understand how the needs of wāhine Māori affected by violence can be addressed using whānau-based wellbeing frameworks;
• To document iwi and hapū level innovations in services and responses to wāhine Māori needs;
• To establish a set of wāhine Māori informed outcome measures that could be useful to support future kaupapa Māori responses to wāhine Māori experiencing violence;
• To discover simple and applicable options for evaluating local innovations for their effectiveness with wāhine Māori.

We also sought to explore the motivators, enablers and
challenges in delivering a kaupapa Māori programme or service addressing violence. (From the Executive summary). Record #7543