This figure describes an outcomes framework that supports the realisation of the New Zealand Disability Strategy. It is organised as a logic flow diagram, where the top area of desired outcomes is supported and contributed to by the layer immediately below it of influences on achieving the desired outcomes.

The top tier is desired outcomes: disabled people and their whānau have the same opportunities, choices, responsibilities and rights as other people living in New Zealand.

This means opportunities to fully participate in:

• learning and applying knowledge
• civic life (including political participation and exercising citizenship rights)
• their community (including cultural roles and recreational pursuits)
• relationships (including whanau, intimate partners, peers and friends)
• paid and unpaid work

like others at similar stages of life.

Disability supports help people overcome challenges they face in doing some or all of these things. They do this through supporting people to:

• communicate
• move around
• find out about things
• look after themselves and their family
• make decisions

like others at similar stages of life. These are the ‘fundamental activities’ of life.

The lower tier is influences on achieving the desired outcomes.
Government-funded disability supports do not act alone in overcoming the challenges. They interact with other enablers or influencers to achieve the desired outcomes. These influences include:

• natural support networks, including whānau and friends
• environmental and societal factors, including the physical environment, attitudes, policy, legislation and community
• personal circumstances, including health, wealth, accommodation and individual characteristics and resources (including confidence, experience and knowledge)
• government-funded mainstream supports, including health, education, public transport, income support, telecommunication, housing and other services.