Finding Common Ground

Your survey responses will be stored securely and will only be used for the purposes of this project.  

You have the opportunity in the survey to request a copy of your responses.  

Tātou~Tātou Social Innovation https://tatoutatou.org/ is supporting this project. They will read your responses and engage with your ideas to  help draft the declaration. 

We cannot guarantee that your ideas will be reflected in the declaration draft or the summary of the process of drafting the declaration. 

You can choose who knows that you participated in the survey: 

You will have the option to do the survey anonymously.  

If you choose not to share your name - no one will know that you participated in the survey. 

If you do choose to share your name in the survey you can choose for it to: 

• Remain confidential so that only Tātou~Tātou and the Finding Common Ground design team know that you participated.  
• Or for it to be included in any supplementary documentation that may accompany the declaration. 

 
We will not share your whole survey response with anyone outside the Tātou~Tātou team or Finding Common Ground design team.   

We may include excerpts, in the form of direct quotes, from your response in a summarised overview of the process that will be shared with the Finding Common Ground Steering Group.  

You can choose if you want your name to be included in this summary. You can also choose if you would like us to use your name or a pseudonym (a fake name) next to any quotes we use. 

We will not share the information you provide with anyone else, outside of what we have included above. 

What other information will you use to draft a Declaration? 

Any draft declaration will be grounded in Te Tiriti o Waitangi, The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and the Enabling Good Lives principles.   

The ideas that you and others share in this survey and from other engagements will help us to find ideas and aspirations that have not been highlighted in other important places such as:  

• The submissions that were made to recent New Zealand Disability Strategy 2026-2030
• Formal and informal publications on Te Tiriti o Waitangi, The Waitangi Tribunal, Disability Justice, Whāia Te Ao Mārama 2018 to 2022: The Māori Disability Action Plan, Atoatoali'o National Pacific Disability Approach, and others. 

We will also draw on existing declarations and key frameworks to summarise information into options to be included in the declaration.  

We will consult with disabled people and networks to understand what the community wants to prioritise from these options.  

All of this information will be used to make a draft declaration.  

We will share any draft Declaration widely in a second survey for people to provide further feedback before it is finalised by the Finding Common Ground Steering Group  

What can I expect in the survey? 

If you agree to participate in the survey you will be asked: 

• Questions about who you are and if/how you would like your name to be recorded.  

• Questions about your ideas about what is important to disabled people and their families, whānau and carers and actions that benefit the community.  

You can skip any of the questions.  

If you are using the survey platform, you can return to any question before you finish your response by using the ‘back’ button. 

Even if you don’t finish the survey, your answers will be recorded. 

We are going to ask  questions about what needs to change for our communities. For some this might be a difficult thing to think about.  

If this is distressing or uncomfortable for you at any time please feel free to stop the survey.  

Below we have listed some places that may be helpful for you if you need support before or after engaging with this survey: 

• Free call or text 1737 any time for support from a trained counsellor. 

• Lifeline 0800 543 354 (0800 LIFELINE). 

• Youthline 0800 376 633, free text 234 or email talk@youthline.co.nz or online chat. 

Who can I talk to if I have questions about this survey or the wider project? 

For any questions about this survey, please contact: 

 Design lead - Tātou~Tātou 

Tarapuhi Vaeau 

tarapuhi@tatoutatou.org 

For any questions about the overall project please contact:  

FindingCommonGround@dpa.org.nz and someone from the Finding Common Ground team will respond to you.  

Ngā mihi, thank you for considering participating in this survey.