Our people, our community, are a primary reason for the Eyre Peninsula Natural Resources Management (NRM) Board's existence. Ensuring the Eyre Peninsula community are well informed, educated and involved is vital for the effective delivery of the Board's programs and sustainable natural resource management in the region.
The following programs within the 2006-08 Investment Strategy provide support for individuals, landholders, communities, industry and organisations with skills, knowledge, information and institutional frameworks to increase capacity to implement biodiversity conservation, and sustainable resource use and management.
Indigenous Engagement & Capacity Building (partial funding)
The Eyre Peninsula NRM Board acknowledges the traditional owners of the land and the importance of providing an organisational culture that supports and incorporates indigenous knowledge and practices to enhance our understanding and management of Eyre Peninsula's natural resources.
This proposed program builds on the work that has been achieved over the past 18 months. It aims to strengthen the level of indigenous engagement in the region in relation to NRM and provide a mechanism for the indigenous community to play a more active role in providing support and advice to the EPNRM Board in regard to indigenous cultural and heritage matters. This will be facilitated through the employment of approximately 0.5FTE Indigenous Facilitator.
For more information on the Indigenous Engagement & Capacity Building program see the 2006-08 Investment Strategy package.
Assessment of the community’s capacity to deliver NRM outcomes on Eyre Peninsula
This activity will assess the Eyre Peninsula NRM community’s capacity to achieve NRM outcomes and compare these capacities against those required to deliver on investment strategy targets. Capacity gaps will be identified through an audit of sub-regional areas, and a series projects proposed to bridge these gaps.
Since 2003, Primary Industries and Resources SA (PIRSA), Rural Solutions SA and the University of South Australia have been working to develop a capacity auditing tool, which enables communities to measure their existing capacity and to identify current capacity strengths and areas for further development.
The aims of this project are to:
- develop a series of social indicators to assist in capacity assessment;
- Identify the key capacities of communities directly involved in NRM;
- Audit sub-regional groups within the Eyre Peninsula NRM region using the key capacities and associated indicators identified in steps 1&2;
- Allow the sub-regions to make a self-assessment of those capacities requiring further development;
- Generate a series of graphs which illustrate the relative strength and contribution of each capacity to the NRM sector;
- Create a report of the capacity of the Eyre Peninsula NRM Board to deal with change in NRM; and
- Develop training guides and tools for facilitators.