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- Reference # AHT.7.2021025
- Project Status Current
- Timeframe 3 years (2021 - Sept 2024)
- Project manager Sarah Docherty
- CRCNA Funding $530,000.00
- Total project value $898,000.00
- Project research participant Kimberley Pilbara Cattlemen's Association (KPCA)
- Research Programs 4. Building industry and capacity in Northern Australia
- Location Northern Australia
- Agriculture
- Strategic policy development
Summary
Building on the CRCNA’s earlier de-risking work in the Northern Territory, this project will focus on addressing an identified need to lift the ability of landholders, industry bodies and development services to be development and investment ready.
It will examine and detail the needs assessment of landholders in this context, build partnerships and an evidence-based co-design of appropriate capacity building products to address these needs. The research team will trial the delivery of and evaluate these emerging products relative to landholders needs. Coordinated across the north by Northern Territory Farmers Association Incorporated (NTFA), the project will also significantly partner with Queensland Farmers Federation to ensure strong coverage across northern Western Australia (WA), the Northern Territory (NT) and Northern Queensland (NQ).
This research will:
- Research the capacity development needs of landholders and their service providers in developing and progressing quality development applications
- Building the partnerships required to co-design the development of an appropriate short-course and micro-credential approach to lifting that capacity
- Trail and evaluate the delivery of this capacity-building approach.
This approach aims to achieve a long-term focus on lifting the capacity of industry bodies, landholders and their service providers across this space.
Expected outcomes
This project will deliver a formal industry-based Program Translation Plan and Capacity Building Program for use by Indigenous and non-Indigenous landholders, development service providers, industry bodies and government regulators.