Why have an outcomes framework / Hei aha te pou tarāwaho?
Lottery decision makers consider how lottery grants can make a positive difference for communities, hapū and iwi.
The lottery grants system focuses on the outcomes, rather than the outputs, created through grants. Outputs describe what the grant funds will be spent on. Outcomes describe what happens for communities, hapū, and iwi as a result.
For example, a grant might fund an ‘output’ like maintenance costs for a community facility, while the ‘outcome’ created might be stronger community connections.
Grant seekers can look at the outcomes framework to find out what types of outcomes the lottery grants system will prioritise. They may consider the outcomes their group hopes to achieve, and how they align with the lottery outcomes.
The Lottery Outcomes Framework / Te Pou Tarāwaho Hua Rota
The Lottery Grants Board Te Puna Tahua (the Board) sets out its high-level vision and desired outcomes in its Statement of Intent (SOI). The Board’s vision guides the priorities of the lottery grants system, in combination with the Gambling Act 2003 (the Act), the principle of equity, and Te Tiriti o Waitangi. The outcomes framework is built on these foundational elements.
The Lottery Outcomes Framework has three levels:
- Ngā Pae Tawhiti – the Far Horizon Outcomes
- Ngā Pae Tata – the Mid Horizon Outcomes
- Ngā Pae Poto – the Near Horizon Outcomes
The outcomes circle diagram shows Far Horizon Outcomes Ngā Pae Tawhiti and Mid Horizon Outcomes Ngā Pae Tata. The circle shape indicates that all the outcome areas are equally important and that they are interconnected. The outer layers of the circle show the foundational elements of the outcomes framework: the Board's vision, Equity Principle, Te Tiriti o Waitangi, and the legislative requirements.
Far Horizon Outcomes Ngā Pae Tawhiti
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Social Cohesion
Communities, hapū and iwi support societal participation and contribution through facilitating interactions between diverse groups, strengthening intergenerational associations, and fostering connection, collaboration, and inclusion.Community Wellbeing
Communities, hapū and iwi have the resources and relationships required to thrive, socially, economically, environmentally, and culturally.Collective Self-Determination
Communities, hapū and iwi have authority for their needs, aspirations and own collective benefit, which must have regard to the needs of Māori, and as appropriate, the groups named in the Act.Mid Horizon Outcomes Ngā Pae Tata and Near Horizon Outcomes Ngā Pae Poto
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Capability, capacity and self-reliance are enhanced
Communities, hapū, and iwi gain increased capability, capacity, and self-reliance, enhancing ability to deliver community impact through grant activities, and to prepare for and respond to challenges, including emergency situations. These activities promote community self-reliance, capacity building and stability, assist in reducing or overcoming barriers to social, recreational, civil, or cultural participation, and should demonstrate regard to the needs of Māori, older people, Pacific people and other ethnic communities, women, youth, and people with disabilities.
Enhancing equitable access to capability building, capacity building and development of self-reliance.
- Increasing equitable access to resources to build capacity.
- Increasing equitable access to activities to build capability.
- Enabling communities, hapū, iwi, and hapori Māori to be self-reliant.
- Using universal design to develop digital and built environments, and services and systems that meet people’s needs and enable self-reliance.
Enhancing community capital and cultural capital to support active participation in civil society.
- Enhancing community, social and cultural capital.
- Increasing resources for planning, strategy, governance and people’s ability to participate in civil society.
- Supporting and recognising Māori, Pacific Peoples’ and ethnic communities' concepts of capability, capacity and self-reliance.
- Strengthening intercultural capability.
- Enabling the voluntary sector to support increased capacity and capability.
Preparing for collective and inclusive responses to natural disasters and emergencies.
- Preparing for collective responses to natural disasters and emergencies.
- Ensuring people with disabilities are included in emergency responses.
- Ensuring people from ethnic communities are included in emergency responses.
Supporting the groups named in the Act to thrive through increased capability, capacity and self-reliance.
- Building digital access and literacy for Pacific people.
- Delivering services that meet the diverse needs of Pacific people.
- Building capability and capacity to support Pacific people in development and planning.
- Building capability and capacity to support people with disabilities to gain choice and control, develop governance and leadership abilities and achieve their potential.
- Empowering disabled people and their families to make decisions about their own lives.
- Enabling neurodiverse people to participate in society.
- Building capability and capacity within ethnic communities to participate in society.
- Supporting young people’s capability, capacity and self-reliance.
- Supporting older people to participate in society through building digital capability.
- Increasing women’s access to capability and capacity building.
- Increasing women’s capability to gain access to governance roles.
- Building rural communities’ capability, capacity and self-reliance.
Locally-led Sports and recreation are supported
Communities, hapū, and iwi access sports and recreation facilities, activities, and environments, which also provide avenues for broader social connection. Community stability and community health are enhanced through sports and recreation, and support for inclusive sports and recreation should demonstrate regard to the needs of Māori, older people, Pacific people and other ethnic communities, women, youth, and people with disabilities.
Increasing equitable access to a diverse range of locally-led sports.
- Increasing equitable access to a diverse range of locally led-sports.
- Removing barriers to participation in sports.
Increasing equitable access to a diverse range of locally-led recreation.
- Increasing equitable access to a diverse range of locally-led recreation activities.
- Removing barriers to participation in recreation.
Building intercultural capability and supporting multiculturalism within the sports and recreation sectors.
- Supporting diverse leadership, participation and development opportunities within sports and recreation
- Strengthening cultural sports and recreation activities.
Supporting the groups named in the Act to thrive through sports and recreation.
- Increasing accessible sports and recreation opportunities for people with disabilities.
- Making accessible play equipment available for children with disabilities.
- Increasing people in ethnic communities’ equitable access to sports and recreation.
- Supporting Pacific-led sports and recreation initiatives.
- Increasing young people’s equitable access to sports and recreation.
- Increasing older people’s equitable access to sports and recreation.
- Increasing women’s equitable access to sport and recreation.
- Increasing people in rainbow communities’ equitable access to sports and recreation.
- Increasing people in rural communities’ equitable access to sports and recreation.
Economic wellbeing is strengthened and diversified
Communities, hapū, and iwi strengthen diverse economies which support collective economic wellbeing, which contributes to broader community wellbeing. Economic wellbeing supports community self-reliance, capacity building and stability, and assists in reducing or overcoming barriers to social, recreational, civil, or cultural participation.
Enhancing equitable access to healthy food and clothing.
- Enhancing equitable access to healthy food and clothing.
- Supporting economic needs sustainably with natural resources.
Enabling people to grow in ability to meet their own economic needs.
- Increasing access to financial literacy programmes.
- Enabling people to learn ways to meet their own economic needs.
- Training and mentoring to increase people’s employment and business development skills.
Hapori Māori developing indigenous economic models.
- Hapori Māori developing indigenous economic models.
- Progressing collective housing initiatives on Māori land.
- Recognising and supporting indigenous models of prosperity and resource sharing (manaakitanga and koha).
Increasing shared prosperity through volunteering and cooperative initiatives.
- Increasing shared prosperity through co-operative sharing of skills and resources.
- Recognising, valuing and resourcing volunteers.
Strengthening diverse local economies and alternative economic models.
- Using alternative economic models to promote sustainable consumption and production.
- Strengthening diverse local economies through social enterprise.
- Supporting economic wellbeing through digital innovation.
Advancing economic wellbeing for the groups named in the Act.
- Supporting young people into diverse education, training and employment pathways.
- Supporting older people into economic pathways and entrepreneurship.
- Supporting people with disabilities into employment and strengthening their financial literacy.
- Pacific people prospering and progressing toward economic equity.
- Enabling Pacific people's food security to flourish.
- Enabling women and girls to progress towards economic security and equity.
- Enabling people in ethnic communities to contribute to and benefit from collective economic prosperity.
- Increasing people in rainbow communities’ equitable access to employment and economic opportunities.
- Increasing people with disabilities’ access to suitable housing.
- Increasing older people’s access to suitable housing.
- Increasing young people’s access to healthy housing.
- Increasing people in rainbow communities’ access to suitable housing.
Cultural wellbeing is enriched through arts, culture, heritage, and national identity
Communities, hapū, and iwi develop initiatives focused on arts, culture, heritage, and national identity, enriching cultural wellbeing. These actions support the development and preservation of arts, culture, heritage, and national identity. Additionally, community health is enhanced through cultural wellbeing.
Increasing equity in arts, culture and heritage.
- Increasing equity in creation and enjoyment of the arts.
- Growing equitable access to environments supporting cultural wellbeing and wairuatanga.
- Increasing equity in preserving and promoting heritage and taonga.
- Removing barriers to diversity, equity, inclusion and access within arts, culture and heritage.
- Increasing diversity in opportunities for leadership, development and collaboration within the arts, culture and heritage sectors.
Strengthening intercultural capability and multicultural connections.
- Strengthening multiculturalism, cultural wellbeing and national identity.
- Strengthening social cohesion through active citizenship and civil participation.
- Increasing intercultural capability and cultural wellbeing.
Enhancing cultural wellbeing for the groups named in the Act.
- Strengthening Pacific peoples’ languages, cultural practices and identities.
- Promoting Pacific arts, ceremonies and storytelling traditions.
- Supporting Pacific people with disabilities to participate socially and culturally.
- Promoting ethnic communities’ arts, culture, heritage and language initiatives.
- Supporting people with disabilities in ethnic communities to socially and culturally participate.
- Supporting the culture and language of people with disabilities.
- Enabling people who are deaf or hard of hearing to communicate and participate.
- Supporting young people’s equitable access to diverse arts, culture, and heritage activities.
- Supporting older people’s equitable access to diverse arts, culture, and heritage activities.
- Supporting people with disabilities’ equitable access to diverse arts, culture, and heritage activities.
- Supporting women’s equitable access to diverse arts, culture, and heritage activities.
- Supporting people in rainbow communities’ equitable access to diverse arts, culture, and heritage activities.
- Supporting rural people’s equitable access to diverse arts, culture, and heritage activities.
Environmental wellbeing is protected and enhanced
Communities, hapū, and iwi take actions to protect and enhance the natural environment, and to respond to climate change. These actions support community and environmental health, for instance through air quality, uncontaminated lands and waters, and biodiversity.
Enhancing and sharing natural environments through locally-led action.
- Preserving natural environments with thriving biodiversity through locally led action.
- Protecting the ecosystem and sustainable access to clean air, clean water and food sources through locally- led action.
- Increasing natural areas and green spaces for recreation and physical activity through locally-led action.
- Removing barriers to public access to natural areas.
Strengthening cultural connections to the natural environment.
- Strengthening cultural connections to the natural environment (kaitiakitanga).
- Managing natural materials used for cultural purposes.
- Increasing environmental education and training opportunities.
Progressing environmental planning, education, and volunteering.
- Increasing environmentally-focused citizen science initiatives.
- Progressing digital innovations that support environmental wellbeing.
- Increasing diverse engagement within equitable environmental planning processes.
Advancing locally-led action for climate and sustainability.
- Progressing locally-led action on climate change mitigation.
- Progressing locally-led adaptation to climate change.
- Progressing locally-led sustainability initiatives.
Enhancing environmental wellbeing for the groups named in the Act.
- Increasing ethnic communities’ climate and environmental action.
- Growing Pacific peoples’ climate and environmental action.
- Progressing young people’s climate and environmental action.
- Advancing older people’s climate and environmental initiatives.
- Advancing women’s climate and environmental initiatives.
- Advancing people with disabilities’ climate and environmental initiatives.
- Increasing access to natural areas for people with disabilities.
Collective health, safety, and wellbeing are advanced
Communities, hapū, and iwi develop initiatives which support increased health, safety, and wellbeing. These actions support community health and assist in reducing or overcoming barriers to social, recreational, civil, or cultural participation.
Advancing equity in community health, safety and wellbeing.
- Promoting initiatives advancing equity in community health.
- Increasing equitable access to community wellbeing and mental health support.
- Promoting equitable access to community safety.
- Promoting equitable access to environments which improve health, safety and wellbeing.
- Removing barriers to diversity, equity, inclusion and access within health, safety and wellbeing initiatives.
Advancing community safety and supporting people living with violence or victimisation.
- Taking action to address family violence and sexual violence.
- Taking action to address bullying and victimisation.
- Improving digital safety.
- Progressing digital innovations supporting collective health, safety and wellbeing.
Enhancing collective health, safety and wellbeing for the groups named in the Act.
- Improving health, safety and wellbeing for people with disabilities.
- Improving health, safety and wellbeing for people in ethnic communities by providing services appropriate to their needs.
- Supporting the wellbeing, belonging and inclusion of young people from ethnic communities.
- Improving young people’s health, safety and wellbeing.
- Improving women’s health, safety and wellbeing.
- Meeting the wellbeing needs of Pacific people, including faith and spirituality needs.
- Increasing the health and resilience of Pacific people.
- Taking action to address elder abuse.
- Promoting healthy ageing.
- Strengthening support for the health, safety and wellbeing needs of people in the rainbow community.
- Improving the health, safety and wellbeing of rural people.
Connection, collaboration and inclusion are supported
Communities, hapū, and iwi access activities and facilities that enable social interaction, strengthen social networks, and support connection, collaboration, and inclusion. Community members have a sense of belonging and feel connected to and valued by others. Community stability and community health are enhanced through opportunities for social, recreational, civil, and cultural participation and reducing or overcoming barriers to such participation. The focus on inclusion demonstrates regard to the needs of Māori, older people, Pacific people and other ethnic communities, women, youth, and people with disabilities.
Increasing equitable access to places to gather, shared activities and digital spaces which promote social and cultural connections.
- Increasing access to physical and virtual activities and spaces that create community connections.
- Progressing digital innovations to equitably strengthen connection, collaboration and inclusion.
- Creating events and gatherings supporting diversity, combatting discrimination and fostering belonging and connection.
Collaborating and sharing power to grow local leadership.
- Strengthening partnerships towards shared goals through connection and collaboration.
- Enabling local leadership by people with lived experience, to encourage broad participation in civil society.
- Strengthening social cohesion through distributed leadership, devolved decision-making and power-sharing.
- Encouraging collaborative partnerships between groups through strong cross-cultural understanding of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility.
Enhancing equity in connection, collaboration and inclusion.
- Reducing barriers to connection, collaboration and inclusion.
- Increasing access to inclusive opportunities for connection for people experiencing multiple intersectional barriers.
- Enhancing inclusive opportunities to participate in, contribute to and lead activities and projects which support diversity.
Increasing connection, collaboration and inclusion for the groups named in the Act.
- Increasing participation of people with disabilities across all sectors of society.
- Enabling people with disabilities to participate across their communities by increasing accessibility and mobility.
- Increasing accessibility and connections for rural people with disabilities.
- Supporting and connecting women with disabilities within their communities.
- Increasing inclusion of people from ethnic communities, former refugees and migrants across all sectors of society.
- Supporting collaborative events and activities for Pacific people.
- Increasing collaboration and collective work between Pacific groups to benefit Pacific people.
- Young people building strong connections and relationships to strengthen inclusion and belonging.
- Increasing opportunities for social participation and connection for older people.
- Advancing connection and inclusion for people in the rainbow community.
- Advancing connection and inclusion for people in rural communities.
- Celebrating Pacific people's rainbow identities.
Māori will design and develop initiatives as defined by and for Māori
Hapū, iwi and hapori Māori define their own aspirations and needs, and lead actions designed to address these needs and achieve these aspirations. This focus on supporting hapū, iwi and hapori Māori to define their own aspirations, and to design and develop initiatives to progress these, advances tino rangatiratanga and mana motuhake, and demonstrates regard to the needs of Māori.
Strengthening indigenous digital innovation and data sovereignty initiatives.
- Increasing indigenous digital innovation supporting Māori-led initiatives.
- Strengthening indigenous data sovereignty initiatives.
Supporting Māori from the groups named in the Act to thrive through Māori-led initiatives.
- Increasing Māori cultural connections for tangata whaikaha Māori and tangata turi Māori.
- Tamariki and rangatahi Māori thriving as Māori.
- Increasing access for kaumātua to thriving support networks and leadership opportunities.
- Improving wāhine Māori lives through initiatives led by wāhine Māori.
- Celebrating takatāpui identities.
- Thriving Māori-led initiatives for rural hapori Māori.
Intergenerational connections and learning are promoted
Communities, hapū, and iwi have strong intergenerational connections, and share knowledge and skills across generations, creating mutually supportive social networks which strengthen social cohesion. These activities promote community self-reliance, capacity building and stability, assist to preserve arts, culture, heritage, and national identity, and demonstrate regard to the needs of Māori, older people, Pacific people and other ethnic communities, women, youth, and people with disabilities.
Sharing cultural practices across generations so they are remembered for future generations.
- Sharing taonga tuku iho, kōrero tuku iho, mātauranga, knowledge, stories, skills, attitudes, and traditions between generations.
- Sharing cultural practices across generations so they are remembered for future generations.
Strengthening intergenerational connections across all age groups.
- Increasing access to mentoring and learning opportunities for tamariki (children) and rangatahi (young people).
- Increasing opportunities for kaumātua (older people) to connect with, teach and learn from rangatahi (young people).
- Increasing equitable support for whānau (families) caring for children and young people, and/or older people and/or people with disabilities.
Supporting hapori Māori to maintain enduring intergenerational connections with people and places.
- Flourishing intergenerational connections between people and te taiao (the natural environment).
- Increasing intergenerational knowledge about urban and taurahere settings, and whakapapa of organisations, is shared by hapori Māori, adding depth and richness of knowledge to kaupapa.
Supporting the groups named in the Act to thrive through intergenerational connections and learning.
- Increasing accessibility to support community participation by children and young people with disabilities and their families.
- Connecting and supporting older people with disabilities within their communities.
- Increasing support for people from ethnic communities, former refugees and migrants to form intergenerational networks.
- Advancing Pacific youth development and supporting Pacific children through innovation.
- Increasing access to culturally appropriate mentors so Pacific children and young people thrive.
- Increasing dignity and respect for people with disabilities in intergenerational settings.
- Strengthening intergenerational support for people in the rainbow community.
- Supporting the use of digital technology for people in ethnic communities to maintain intergenerational connections.
How lottery grants support the groups named in the Act / Ka pēhea te pūtea rota e tautoko ai i ngā rōpū ka whakaingoatia ki te Gambling Act
Lottery decision makers must have regard to the needs of specific groups named in the Act. The groups and their definitions are explained below.
There are specific Near Horizon Outcomes Ngā Pae Poto relating to each group. These can be viewed and downloaded as PDFs by selecting the name of the group:
- Māori
Everyone recorded as Māori or of Māori descent.
- Older people
Everyone aged 65 years and over.
- Pacific peoples
Everyone recorded as belonging to a Pacific ethnic group, such as Samoan, Tongan, Cook Islands Māori, Niuean, Fijian, Tokelauan, Tuvaluan, and other Pacific ethnicities.
- Ethnic communities
Everyone recorded as belonging to an ethnic community, defined as: Asian ethnicities, Continental European ethnicities (excluding the United Kingdom and Ireland), Middle Eastern ethnicities, Latin American ethnicities, and African ethnicities.
- Women
Everyone recorded as female (includes girls as well as adult women).
- Youth
Everyone aged 24 years and younger (includes children as well as youth).
- People with disabilities
Everyone with a disability that limits their function in terms of hearing, vision, mobility, cognition, communication or ability to care for themselves.
- People facing barriers to participation
People who experience systemic barriers or inequalities in human rights which limit their social, recreational, civil, or cultural participation due to material deprivation, social exclusion or lack of agency.