Tēnā koutou katoa rau rangatira mā. Tēnā koutou ngā kaumatua, ngā kuia, ngā mātua, ngā whaea, me ā koutou tamariki mokopuna hoki. Tēnā koutou i roto i ngā rerekētanga o te wā, nō reira ngā mihi nui kia koutou katoa. Ka huri ki te hunga mate kua mene ki tua o te ārai. Haere ki te pō uriuri, ki te pō tangotango, ki te pō i whakaū i te moe. Nō reira haere, haere, haere atu rā koutou. Ka huri ki te kaupapa o te wā, arā ko tēnei pānui e hora kōrero nei e pā ana ki “Mā Te Reo”.Nō reira e hoa mā, rapu ngā kōrero o roto hei painga mō te reo, mā tātou katoa. Huri noa tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou katoa.

Round Four projects are going really well. Out of the 123 projects that were funded, just over two thirds have been completed. Mauri ora koutou mā.

However there are a lot of people who have not completed their OVERDUE milestones, if you are one of these people please get in contact with me.

maihi@tetaurawhiri.govt.nz or 0800 MĀ TE REO (0800 628 373)

As noted in our last e-pānui, 165 applications were approved funding for the round which closed.

Offers of funding were sent to all 165 applicants by the administration team and all but four accepted the offers. Of the 165, eighteen will have been funded to run Māori language events.

Check out the following Mā Te Reo sponsored events for the next few months. This schedule is made available with the agreement of the event providers.
 
In our next pānui we'll preview events coming up over January - March 2006.

October 2005

"Te Reo Raumati (Toiora) - Summer Arts Festival"
24 October 2005
10am - 2pm
Studio Pa-Ua - 805 Norton Road, Hastings
For more information contact:
Tautoko Wahine - Ngatai Huata
Ph: (06) 873-3256  Mobile (027) 253-5272
Email: kaupapa@wahine.co.nz

"Kia Piki i Te Reo" Concert
29 October 2005
Civic Centre, Feilding
For more information contact:
Kaye Maree Dunn on (029) 249 6074


November 2005

"Te Rā o Te Reo" Concert
12 November 2005
Te Rauparaha Park, Porirua
For more information,
go to www.teraotereo.com


December 2005

"Xmas in the Pa 2005"
18 December 2005
Maungatapu Marae, Tauranga
For more information,
email mabel@kiaoragroup.co.nz

"Te Reo Raumati (Te Po Tuatahi Te Marama Tuatahi)"
14th December 2005
8pm - 12pm
Summer 1st Night 1st Light Festival - Fiesta of Lights
Waikoko Gardens - Kenilworth Road, Hastings
For more information contact:
Tautoko Wahine - Ngatai Huata
Ph: (06) 873-3256  Mobile (027) 253-5272
Email: kaupapa@wahine.co.nz

There has been a significant delay in drafting some of the contracts in this category. Apologies, especially to those who got their acceptance form and references to us promptly. As a result of our Research/Evaluation project, we have been reviewing what content we require in the schedules for digital and print media projects. We hope that the improved quality of your agreement will make the wait worthwhile in the long-run.

We have recently completed a revamp of the Final Monitoring Report template that you are all asked to complete as part of your final milestone. You will now be asked to complete the template relevant to your particular project. It is really important that you take time to complete all sections of this template. We will not be able to pay out your final milestone payment until the report is fully completed. The information that you provide in this report is important for us in monitoring and evaluating the Mā Te Reo programme. It will also enable us to report to our Minister and other stakeholders and to argue for the long-term continuation of the programme.

First time Mā Te Reo providers may find our contracting process quite baffling. However, when you’ve been through it once and become familiar with our requirements, most providers manage to complete their projects without too much hassle.

We thought it would be useful to spend some time taking you through the contracting process, and hope that even our perennial providers might find something of use in the following. This information is not meant to replace, but to complement, that contained in the application material and various covering letters.


Step One - Acceptance of Offer of Funding/References

Once your application is approved for funding, you are sent a letter indicating the amount you have been approved and formally making you an offer of funding. If the amount is less than that requested, you are given a brief explanation of the reason for the reduction. Attached to the letter is an Acceptance of Offer of Funding Form. We ask you to sign and return that form to us, along with two references, and if possible a revised budget, based on the amount approved (not required in cases of fully funded projects). Please note that approved amounts are inclusive of GST.

The references should (unless agreed otherwise with the Mā Te Reo Administration Team) be from those two people you nominated in your application. Remember also that if you are running an Ātaarangi programme, one of your references must be from Te Ātaarangi. Please note that all references must be signed.

There have been considerable delays again this year, because many of you have asked your referees to email references directly to us. We have then had to chase you to chase your referees to get signed copies to us. If some of you became hoha with the long wait to receive a draft contract, it might have been because we gave priority to those applicants who returned all the required documentation within the specified two-week period. It is your responsibility to get your references to us.


Step Two - Draft Contract Sent

Once we have received both your acceptance form and two signed references, a draft contract/funding agreement, based on the information contained in your application and any comments made during assessment by Te Rōpū Tautoko, is drafted and sent to you to consider. In many cases, you will be happy with the agreement as is. If that is the case, we ask you to have both copies of the contract signed and witnessed and returned to us along with the other Milestone One requirements as set out in second schedule (the second to last page of the contract), and your invoice for the first Milestone payment. Once we have received everything, the first Milestone is met, payment is made, one copy of the signed contract is returned to you and the project is underway. Māmā noa iho!

If in any doubt, just give Maihi or Nerissa a call on 0800 MĀ TE REO (0800 628-373). Again, significant delays occur when you send back just your contracts, or in some cases just one contract, without the other Milestone One documentation.


Step Three - Contract Negotiation

In some cases you may have minor changes that you would like made to the agreement. For example, you might need to push the original dates of your wānanga/event out due to the time delay in confirming funding. If this is the case, Nerissa will ask you to make the changes to both copies of the contract, initial them, and return them to us, once again with all the other Milestone One requirements and your first Milestone invoice. Haami Piripi will also initial the changes when he signs the contracts for Mā Te Reo, and a copy will be returned to you to keep.

If however, you wish to discuss more substantial changes to the funding agreement, these will need to be negotiated. Once agreement is reached, new funding agreements will be sent to you. You do need to have good reason for wanting to substantially change your project and need to remember that the amount approved is based on your original application and that is not usually negotiable.

Also, what we have found occurring more frequently this Round, is that many of you, particularly in the Wānanga Reo and Language Programmes and Classes categories, want to downsize your project to correspond with the reduced level of funding. For instance, you might decide you are going to run only three wānanga reo instead of four. On the surface, this might seem logical, however, Te Rōpū Tautoko, to be fair to all applicants in these categories, now uses a benchmarked formula based on duration (no. of days) and predicted number of participants. Therefore, we cannot always agree to a simple reduction to your project. We will certainly endeavour to work something out with you however, for example we could agree that you run fewer wānanga, if you can guarantee a higher level of participants.


These are the main points for you to note, for those of you that have made it through, congratulations, for those of you, not quite there yet, kia kaha tonu. Just remember we want to get your contract executed as much as you do.

Mā Te Reo sponsored the Community and Educational category at the Māori Language Week Awards held 14 September 2005 in Wellington. While no Mā Te Reo providers made the finals this year, we encourage all our Mā Te Reo providers to consider running projects to coincide with Māori Language Week. Something to consider for Round Six pea. Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori is delighted at how Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori is catching on and growing bigger year by year.

A new interactive Māori Language Website, www.koreromaori.co.nz , was also launched on Maori Language Day, 14 September 2005. This website, is one component of a Māori Language Information Programme which Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori is currently implementing. Log on and see what you think. Although it’s early days yet, the website promises to have something for every Maori language supporter no matter what your language ability.

If you would like to submit an article about your Mā Te Reo project, we’d love to hear from you. Also any photos, suggestions, queries would be welcome and we’ll always do our best to include them in the next pānui...

Check our website www.ma-tereo.co.nz or call 0800 MA TE REO (0800 628-373)