Ministry Of Women’s Affairs Commission Research Project On Resiliance To Sexual Violence

The Ministry of Women’s Affairs (MWA) is leading a research project investigating resilience as a protective factor against sexual violence.

The project is titled ‘Staying Safe, Bouncing Back – Resilience in Young People’ and has a specific focus on young Māori.

This project seeks to provide a platform to explore the ‘grey zone’ of pressure and coercion in sexual relating, and what resilience means for young Māori in responding to this.

This project seeks:
• to find out what is known in New Zealand, particularly Māori perspectives, and international, that can inform our understanding on this topic, particularly for indigenous peoples
• to find an appropriate methodology of collecting data from young Māori
• to test this methodology with young Māori

The Ministry of Women’s Affairs is currently calling for RFPs. The deadline for this is 5.00pm on Wednesday 5th August 2009. For further information on this please contact Sonya Rimene on (04) 916 5848 or Rimene@mwa.govt.nz