PBC Capacity Building Funding extended

Native title-holding corporations are known as Prescribed Bodies Corporate (PBCs). PBCs can access funding through the National Indigenous Australian Agencies (NIAA) Indigenous Advancement Strategy (IAS), called ‘PBC Capacity Building grant funding’. The funding can assist PBCs to grow their organisational capacity and generate economic benefits from their land.

This on-going funding opportunity has now been extended to the 2027/28 Financial Year. Check the funding guidelines and application form HERE and contact your local NIAA office to discuss your proposal.
Please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you need assistance with a funding application

Australian Heritage Grant funding available

Application are open for the new round of Australian Heritage Grant funding to conserve National Heritage Listed places. AHG funding helped many Indigenous Groups develop and review management plans and conserve listed places around Australia.
Submissions close on 25/10/2024. Please see the link for more information. If you need assistance with a grant or project please feel free to reach out.

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Mid-Term and Full Cycyle Review of Indigenous Protected Area Management Plans

Addressing complex systems like the environment, community and culture, plans of managements for Indigenous Protected Areas need to be adaptive - and as such reviewed from time to time to ensure that the plan is still appropriate for the context.

This PDF resource (DOWNLOAD HERE) shows how the tools of the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation / Healthy Country Planning can help Indigenous Protected Area projects through the process of monitoring, evaluation, reporting and improvement (MERI).

New publication: Incorporating uncertainty in indigenous sea country monitoring with bayesian statistics: Towards more informed decision making

The Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) have been engaged with the Bardi Jawi Rangers for many years and in this project explored how Bayesian statistics can help to incorporate uncertainty into viability rankings and indicators ratings of their Healthy Country Plan.

You can download the open source article in the Ambio magazine HERE. Many thanks to Katherine Cure, Jim Underwood and the Bardi Jawi Rangers to be part of this exciting publication.

New publication: Integrating Social Value in Landscape Planning: Experiences from Working with Indigenous Communities in Australia

Together with David Hinchley, Damien Parriman, Mike Heiner and James Fitzsimons we wrote a book-chapter titled “Integrating Social Value in Landscape Planning: Experiences from Working with Indigenous Communities in Australia” for the publication Social Value, Climate Change and Environmental Stewardship: Insights from Theory and Practice.

In this article we explore how Healthy Country Planning and Development by Design can assist Indigenous Groups in Australia increasing the Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) in the land-use decision making process.

Conservation Planning in the Dawna Tanintharyi region of Myanmar

Back from a very exciting Healthy Country Planning project in the Dawna Tanintharyi landscape of Myanmar to facilitate the development of the Kawthoolei Forest Department Strategic Conservation Management Plan

The strategic conservation plan will support the Kawthoolei Forestry Department, the Karen Wildlife Conservation Initiative and Karen communities to manage a culturally and bio diverse rich landscape strategically.