Ngaweeyan Maar-oo Workshop Facilitation
Closing the Gap funds allocated to the Victorian Government
Who funded the project
Karabena Consulting was contracted to facilitate the meeting of all members of Victoria’s Closing the Gap Partnership Forum, now named Ngaweeyan Maar-oo, to establish the self-determining priorities and driving implementation action on closing the gap. The meeting brought together the community controlled sector with the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet. It included a presentation on expenditure review by Inside Policy, considerations of the place-based partnership and data project, as well as presentations from the Hon. Gabrielle Williams, the Co-Chairs of First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria, and Pat Turner AM, the Lead Convenor of the Coalition of Peaks.
Summary
The aim of the project was to deliver the following activities:
The development of a paper on Collective Impact and place-based strategies
A discussion paper for considering the Aboriginal Early Years
Two days of facilitation
Feedback on key points of the two-day meeting.
Project Aims
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Facilitating group discussions and active engagement strategies
Data capture to support the secretariat write up a report of the meeting.
Methodologies
The workshop facilitated the Koorie Caucus to understand the imperatives of the Closing the Gao initiative and the representation to the Coalition of Peaks. It also helped to set up collective decision-making strategies for the Caucus going forward.
Project Outputs
Karabena Consulting delivered a report on the outcomes of the meeting for the consideration of the Caucus.
Project Outcomes
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