
Brophy Family and Youth Services
Education
A collaborative response to youth disengagement in regional Victoria
ProjectYorta Yorta Informed Consent for National Parks on Country
Amount$81,220 (total)
Date2008 & 2009
ProgramPast Programs | Environment
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.
Education
A collaborative response to youth disengagement in regional Victoria
Community
Supporting the long term recovery of bushfire affected communities in Rural and Regional Victoria
Past Programs | Arts and Culture
Enabling artists to rebuild after natural disaster
Past Programs | Environment
Protecting endangered species and habitats across South Gippsland
Past Programs | Health
Building organisational capacity to enable sustainable growth
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