........both concepts come into the considerations of Ardern’s Treaty-sensitive government
“Empowerment” is a bit like “Treaty partnership”. Just a decade or so ago you would rarely have heard of it.
Since then, its use has burgeoned and its meaning – like the meaning of the Treaty of Waitangi’s three simple clauses – has evolved to be applied to whatever the government wants to validate.
In a book titled Empowerment: The History of a Key Concept in Contemporary Development Discourse, Anne-Emmanuelle Calvès writes:
