
Beyond The Bell
Program: Education
Building capacity for an ongoing complex systems change initative in South West Victoria
ProjectYorta Yorta Informed Consent for National Parks on Country
Amount$81,220 (total)
Date2008 & 2009
ProgramEnvironment
TRUST OBJECTIVES | PROJECT OBJECTIVES |
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These grants were approved under our previous grants policy | |
Rural and regional Victoria | Initiate best practice co-management in Victorian national parks |
Supporting Indigenous Victoria | Support Yorta Yorta family groups to negotiate and implement a co-management agreement |
Building organisational capacity | Build Yorta Yorta’s organisational capacity to negotiate and implement an ecological management framework with government |
Extending opportunity | Provide lasting socio-economic outcomes for Yorta Yorta people from employment in park management and associated Indigenous business enterprises |
Collaboration and partnership | Friends of the Earth, Yorta Yorta Nation Aboriginal Corporation, Department of Sustainability and Environment, Parks Victoria |
Yorta Yorta succeeds in creating Victoria's first jointly managed national park
HMSTrust funding supported the Yorta Yorta people to negotiate Victoria's first management framework with government.
Image Barmah National Park community meeting.
Website: www.foe.org.au
“HMSTrust's support enabled Yorta Yorta and Friends of the Earth to access resources to drive the consultation process, and assisted in creating the Yorta Yorta Traditional Owner Land Management Board which allows Indigenous people a say in how their country is managed.” Sam Cossar-Gilbert, Friends of the Earth Red Gum Forest Campaigner.
Program: Education
Building capacity for an ongoing complex systems change initative in South West Victoria
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