Sentences with phrase «indigenous policy level»
At the broader Indigenous policy level, capacity building is seen as an important component of social and economic development.
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«Indigenous people are telling us rainfall and river levels have changed; the fires they're dealing with are different now; and the climate systems they used to depend on for growing crops have become unpredictable,» said Steve Schwartzman, lead author of the study and director of tropical forest policy at Environmental Defense Fund.
In this regard, Canada should adopt measures to promote the active participation of indigenous women in the design and implementation of initiatives, programs and policies at all levels of government that are directed to indigenous women, as well as those that pertain to indigenous peoples more broadly.
It includes a commitment to «adopt cooperative approaches on policy and service delivery between agencies, at all levels of government and maintaining and strengthening government effort to address indigenous disadvantage».
By adopting the concept found in the government's broader Indigenous policy, of integrated planning at the local and regional level, the traditional owner structures can be integrated into the community and regional tiers of governance.
ATSIC should be the primary vehicle to represent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples» views to all levels of government and be an agent for positive change in the development of policies and programs to advance the interests of Indigenous Australians.
There is currently no transparent, rigorous process or mechanism at a national level to engage with Indigenous communities, where policies and priorities can be developed and which can hold governments accountable for their performance.
There are several levels of policy formulation in which an Indigenous perspective may be given expression.
Policy is being developed in a vacuum at the national level, with no connection to Indigenous experiences at the local and regional level and without applying the «reality test» that comes with Indigenous participation and local engagement.
Governments at all levels have a particularly important role which can be revealed by considering each of the principles in the light of the concepts, goals and processes that underpin the new arrangements in Indigenous policy.
That, in exercise of its coordination and monitoring role at a whole of government level, the Office of Indigenous Policy Coordination:
Some of the possible functions of a new National Indigenous Representative Body might include: delivery of government programs, advocacy, policy formulation and critique, contributing to legal reform, review and evaluation of government programs, being a clearing house, research, facilitation and mediation and contributing at the international level.
While these policies have occurred at the Commonwealth level, state governments have held their own in oppressing Indigenous Australians.
However, respondents were also apprehensive that where coordinating agencies, such as the new Office of Indigenous Policy and Indigenous Coordination Centres at the Commonwealth level, are not adequately resourced they will be unable to fulfil the coordinating role and parties will need to deal directly with the various agencies.
formal mechanisms, where the national body draws its members from national, state / territory or regional representative bodies, holds regular state - wide policy forums or develops other regional - level mechanisms based on boundaries used by the previous ATSIC Regional Councils or based on Indigenous geographic regions
(ii) national standards legislation (Recs 44 - 53)- such legislation, which would be more detailed and likely be binding at all levels of government, would aim to establish minimum and / or «best practice» standards in government / Indigenous community interrelations in respect of policy and legislative initiatives.
The Office of Indigenous Policy Co-ordination (OIPC) is the key agency responsible for co-ordinating and driving the government's Indigenous policy at the national level; developing new ways of engaging with Indigenous people at the regional and local level; brokering relationships with other levels of government and the private sector; reporting on the performance of government programs and services for Indigenous people to inform policy review and development; managing and providing common services to the Indigenous Co-ordination Centre (ICC) network; and advising the Minister and Government on Indigenous iPolicy Co-ordination (OIPC) is the key agency responsible for co-ordinating and driving the government's Indigenous policy at the national level; developing new ways of engaging with Indigenous people at the regional and local level; brokering relationships with other levels of government and the private sector; reporting on the performance of government programs and services for Indigenous people to inform policy review and development; managing and providing common services to the Indigenous Co-ordination Centre (ICC) network; and advising the Minister and Government on Indigenous ipolicy at the national level; developing new ways of engaging with Indigenous people at the regional and local level; brokering relationships with other levels of government and the private sector; reporting on the performance of government programs and services for Indigenous people to inform policy review and development; managing and providing common services to the Indigenous Co-ordination Centre (ICC) network; and advising the Minister and Government on Indigenous ipolicy review and development; managing and providing common services to the Indigenous Co-ordination Centre (ICC) network; and advising the Minister and Government on Indigenous issues.
43)- such legislation, which would be structural in form, would have the object of promoting self - determination through consultation and cooperation between governments and Indigenous peoples at community and regional levels in respect of the development and implementation of policy and legislation; and
So, for instance, Indigenous parties may be happy with an agreement reached with government at a policy level, but in the longer term may justifiably expect that the agreement will receive some legal protection (for instance, registration as an ILUA, or legislative protection).
At another level of governance, the Commonwealth has policies which impact the way in which mining affects Indigenous communities.
The new arrangements recognise that, in order to develop policies that are responsive to the aspirations, priorities and decisions of Indigenous people, there needs to be better community based structures at the local and regional level.
The participation of Indigenous Australians at the international level has been important in contributing to the development of human rights standards and learning from best practice to inform policy development in Australia.
OIPC will be responsible for coordinating whole of government policy, program and service delivery across the Australian Government; developing new ways of engaging with Indigenous people at the regional and local level; brokering relationships with other levels of government and the private sector; reporting on the performance of government programs and services for Indigenous people to inform policy review and development; managing and providing common services to the ICC network; and advising the Minister and Government on Indigenous issues.
the intersection between indigenous traditional knowledge and various areas of the law, such as intellectual property law, environmental law, heritage and sustainable development, and more recently climate change law and policy, at international, national and local levels
51), which provides conditions for placing Indigenous children through fostering, adoption or care and protection orders, and which now operates in every jurisdiction whether through legislative requirement (as in New South Wales, the Northern Territory, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria)[133] or at the level of policy (as in the ACT and Queensland)[134].
Similarly in late June 2005, all Australian governments reaffirmed their commitment to «advance reconciliation and address the social and economic disadvantages experienced by many indigenous Australians» at the meeting of the Council of Australian Governments.38 This Communique © from COAG commits to indigenous participation at all levels; engagement with representative organisations; flexible approaches and adequate resources to support capacity at the local and regional levels.39 The Communique © also recognised the importance of a learning approach to service delivery and policy development.
The Report covers a broad range of issues extending from the local level (with Indigenous perspectives on Shared Responsibility Agreements), regional and national levels (considering the capacity for Indigenous participation and engagement in federal policy making processes), through to the international level (with a review of developments on Indigenous human rights over the past four years).
One of the major problems with Indigenous policy making in Australia is that it is not sufficiently targeted to overcome the existing level of inequality and discrimination experienced by Indigenous peoples.
This will be important for ensuring consistency between program delivery by these bodies and the work of the new National Indigenous Representative Body, particularly in terms of linking national policy development with regional level program implementation.
In doing so, the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (Minister for Indigenous Affairs) stated the commitment of the Government to «explore the potential for more effective arrangements for ATSIC at the national and regional level» with a «forward looking assessment which addresses how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people can in the future be best represented in the process of the development of Commonwealth policies and programmes to assist them» (1).
Furthermore, given the young demographic profile of Indigenous communities across Australia, there is a clear role for policy makers to play in providing coordinated program funding for leaderships development, mentoring and succession at the community level, to foster the next generation of leaders.20
Kerry McCallum, Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies at the University of Canberra, and Lisa Waller, a former print journalist now doing a PhD at the University of Canberra, say that media logic — defined as «involving a range of skills and tools to monitor, pre-empt and react to news media representation of their policy field» — has permeated the practices of Indigenous affairs policy professionals at every level, from minister to junior bureaucrat.
He released an Indigenous Business Sector Strategy, designed to «support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander business owners and entrepreneurs in a culturally relevant way», praised the performance of the Indigenous Procurement Policy (which has lifted the level of federal procurement contracts won by Indigenous business from $ 6 million to $ 1 billion) and announced the trial of a new Indigenous Grants Policy.
Frequently the native title context is defined by ongoing litigation; differing State government policies for dealing with native title processes; the Commonwealth Indigenous policy framework and at a local level, the relationships between Indigenous groups.
to establish a more coherent policy framework across the whole of the Northern Territory government in relation to Indigenous economic development at the Territory - wide and regional levels.
These procedural rights are particularly significant in determining whether and at what level Indigenous people are engaged in negotiations concerning state - wide land use policy including water management, infrastructure, national parks, agricultural activities etc..
The Shared Framework was developed by the Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada, Canadian Child Care Federation, Childcare Research and Resource Unit, and Campaign 2000) with significant input from indigenous representatives, policy researchers, early childhood educators and many others, and is addressed to all levels of government across Canada.
Big funding cuts and changing government policies have had an impact, and the head of the Tackling Indigenous Smoking initiative Professor Tom Calma has conceded Australia won't meet its target to halve 2008 Indigenous smoking levels by 2018.
He influenced politics and policy in unprecedented ways and hewas a voice representing Indigenous diversity at many levels.
Furthermore, at the local level, treaty - making is already entrenched in Australian public policy and practice through Indigenous Land Use Agreements (ILUAs).
The failure in Australia to perceive native title and land rights as the basis on which to address Indigenous economic and social development has been evident at legal, policy and administrative levels.
Indigenous women's sessions were very enlightening, challenging us to think and act differently if we are not to replicate oppression - not just at policy level (for example, get rid of Basics Card) but also at family violence practice end (include men).
Embedding this critical step into the reality of policy development and implementation will require a framework or mechanism for Indigenous engagement at the national, regional and local levels.
Governance and Policy: Establishing policy that reflects the Indigenous community maintains service level agreements and increases capacity governance building for both the community and indivPolicy: Establishing policy that reflects the Indigenous community maintains service level agreements and increases capacity governance building for both the community and indivpolicy that reflects the Indigenous community maintains service level agreements and increases capacity governance building for both the community and individual.
The Office of Indigenous Policy Coordination has described the options for participation of mainland Torres Strait Islanders in the new arrangements at a regional level as follows:
While most of the focus throughout the last 12 months has been on developing local and regional representative models there has been very little consideration given to ensuring national level input of Indigenous peoples into policy making processes.
The South Australian government's Doing it Right policy is aimed at targeting the needs of Indigenous South Australians on a local and regional level.
Cooperative approaches on policy and service delivery between agencies, at all levels of government and maintaining and strengthening government effort to address indigenous disadvantage.
The Commonwealth, State and Territory governments have also responded to the alarming levels of disadvantage in Indigenous communities with policies aimed at economic and social development for Indigenous people.
establish a more coherent policy framework across the whole of the Northern Territory Government in relation to Indigenous economic development at the Territory - wide and regional levels.