Note: ISBN: 978-0-478-34513-1 assigned to three different TPK reports, records: #4890 (Haar, 2011), #5566 (Parata, 2011) and #5567 (Roguski, 2009)

In 2006 the Government launched its Effective Interventions (EI) policy package, which was established to identify and support options for reducing offending and the prison population, and thereby reducing the costs and impact of crime on New Zealand society. An important component of EI was the need to enhance justice sector responsiveness to Māori. Under the Effective Interventions Initiatives, Cabinet directed Te Puni Kōkiri and the Ministry of Justice to report to Cabinet Policy Committee with a programme of action relating to Māori. As such, Te Puni Kōkiri and the Ministry of Justice developed a Programme of Action for Māori.

The objectives of this evaluation are to:
 gather quantitative information to augment the process evaluations undertaken after one year of operation;
 document in narrative form, at least two of the six intervention initiatives, providing at least two examples of successful transition from involvement in crime and the criminal justice sector into pro-social living and a life without offending, utilising networks gained through the first evaluations; and
 to go beyond documenting problems and gaps, towards providing examples of Māori succeeding as Māori. (From the document). Record #5567