to maintain the relationship between the River and its Iwi are an essential part of using
knowledge to achieve the vision and strategy.
The Clean-up Trust encourages applications that recognise the important contribution of
Maatauranga Maaori to the clean-up of the Waikato River and its catchment. Projects that
work to reinvigorate the relationship of the Waikato River Iwi and the Waikato River will be
especially supported. Three key themes have been identifed:
i. The improvement of the health and well-being of the Waikato River through the practice
and implementation of Kaitiakitanga by its Iwi
ii. The collection and dissemination of traditional knowledge relating to the Waikato River
and its Iwi
iii. The development of tools and models that are based on Maatauranga Maaori which
improve the health and well-being of the Waikato River.
iv. Restoration and enhancement of the mauri of the waterways in the Waikato River
catchment.
Projects that support Maatauranga Maaori (but are not necessarily limited to):
• Development of cultural health indexes
• Creation of knowledge centres / databases
• Traditional relationships with the environment including maatauranga maaori;
• Access, protection, enhancement, and use of sites of signifcance
• Development of heritage protection inventories
• Development of environmental management plans/strategies as they relate to the
Waikato River and its catchment
• Projects related to restoring or protecting sites associated with taonga, for example,
kohanga sites for inanga spawning
• Development of cultural markers that signify signifcant sites or boundaries for iwi,
eg pouwhenua
• Extension programmes, templates, and other tools that help support restoration and
protection initiatives
• Projects that seek to acknowledge or work with both Maatauranga Maaori and western
science in improving the health and wellbeing of the Waikato River and its catchment.
5. Projects that have a community outcome associated with the Waikato River and its
catchment
These may include (but are not necessarily limited to):
• Social science projects such as landowner education and awareness outreach
programmes designed to change behaviours
• Community catchment care groups
• Support for and liaison between groups engaged in Clean-up Trust funded projects.
6. Projects that help the Trust monitor the efectiveness of projects
These may include (but are not necessarily limited to):
• The development of a report card approach as identifed in the WRISS.
• Frameworks that support applicants to monitor the efectiveness of individual projects.
• Frameworks that support the Trust to monitor the efectiveness of individual projects
• Frameworks that support the Trust at a macro-scale (say over 30 years) to determine
how best the Trust’s objectives can be achieved.
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