Munganin – Gadhaba
‘Achieve Together’
Annual Work Plan 2016
DELWP Aboriginal Inclusion Plan 2016-2020
Our vision for Aboriginal inclusion
Working in partnership with Aboriginal Victorians across landscapes,
communities and natural resources, growing liveable, sustainable and
inclusive communities, and sustainable natural environments.WP
Aboriginal Inclusion Plan 2016-2020
OUTCOME 1
Principles
We respect and
acknowledge
Aboriginal culture.
We reject all forms of
racism and intolerance.
We recognise Aboriginal
people’s right to access
and role in Caring for
Country.
RECOGNITION AND RESPECT: Recognition and respect for Aboriginal peoples’ rights,
cultural and customary interests incorporated into DELWP’s integrated planning and
management for land, water and the built environment.
Action
1. Acknowledge and
celebrate the diversity
of Aboriginal culture
heritage across Victoria.
2. Embed respectful
relationships within
DELWP’s business.
3. Work with relevant
department/agencies
and Traditional Owners
to establish best practice
in the recognition and
protection of Aboriginal
customary knowledge.
2016 Priorities
Lead responsibility
1.1 Review Welcome to Country business rule and develop
department policy.
Communications
1.2 Develop an internal communication plan to promote awareness
and inclusiveness in promoting `Aboriginal business is
everyone’s business’; review DELWP web site, intranet and
social media links to reflect and highlight DELWP’s inclusive
culture.
Communications
1.3 Establish a communication protocol on the use and terminology
of phrases to ensure use portrays the diversity of our workforce
and celebrates Aboriginal culture across all DELWP regions.
Communications
1.4 Establish an events committee to assist in the planning and
staging of key events in the Aboriginal community calendar
- Reconciliation Week, NAIDOC Week, Mabo Day, Sorry Day.
People & Culture
2.1 Amend the department’s Diversity Strategic Plan to incorporate
key outcomes in supporting Aboriginal culture in Victoria.
People & Culture
2.2 Take up opportunities to engage with Aboriginal communities
to further promote the principles of the department’s Aboriginal
Inclusion Plan (for division and regional executives).
All business groups
2.3 Incorporate Aboriginal naming in DELWP facilities.
Facilities Management
in conjunction with
Communications
2.4 Establish Indigenous Speakers Series
Local Infrastructure
3.1 Develop and scope a project with input from the Arthur Rylah
Institute and Catchment Management Authorities on Aboriginal
ecological knowledge.
Land Management
Policy
3.2 Scope a project to establish best practice in recognising and
protecting Aboriginal customary knowledge.
3.3 Establish governance arrangements to provide leadership
and oversight for best practice in recognising and protecting
Aboriginal customary knowledge.
3.4 Evaluate internal practices and behaviour changes to achieve
key outcomes for Victoria’s Traditional Owners.
4. Ensure the right
people for country are
actively involved in
the management and
protection of Aboriginal
cultural heritage on land
and sea.
5. Develop an integrated
Aboriginal water use
policy.
4.1 Maintain relationships with key Registered Aboriginal Parties
(where determined) to engage with on matters of Aboriginal
cultural heritage within all areas of Crown land.
All regions
4.2 DELWP to coordinate consultations with other government
agencies to identify their role and responsibilities across our
portfolio areas.
Land Management
Policy
4.3 Develop centralised department policy for a strategy to manage
Aboriginal cultural heritage that determines our compliance and
obligations under Victorian Aboriginal heritage legislation.
Fire & Emergency
Management
4.4 Conclude the development and endorsement of the Standard
Operational Procedures for Request for Reinterment of
Aboriginal ancestral remains on Crown land by Victoria’s
Traditional Owners.
Land Management
Policy
5.1 Continue to increase representation of Aboriginal people on
Water Corporation and Catchment Management Authorities
boards and committees.
Water & Catchment
5.2 Create three Aboriginal Water Officer positions.
5.3 Develop funding guidelines for Aboriginal water project/s
with CMAs.
5.4 Continue work with the Murray Lower Darling River Indigenous
Network in developing the Murray Darling Basin Plan
– Water Resource Plan.
5.5 Initiate four specific Aboriginal water projects through the
CMAs that articulate the Traditional Owners’ aspiration towards
Aboriginal water use, including environmental, social, cultural,
spiritual and economic factors.
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OUTCOME 2
Principles
OPPORTUNITY AND PROSPERITY: Improved access for Aboriginal people to employment
and capability building opportunities and strengthened Aboriginal prosperity through
improved economic participation.
Action
We recognise Aboriginal 6. Develop a DELWP
peoples’ rights to access
Aboriginal Employment
and role in Caring for
Plan.
Country.
2016 Priorities
6.1 Establish an employment target of 3%, to be achieved through
annual ‘step’ milestones.
Lead responsibility
People & Culture
6.2 Establish entry level targets of current designated roles as initial
pathways into permanent employment with the department.
6.3 Develop an understanding of existing Aboriginal employment
needs to retain ongoing employment and a career pathway.
6.4 Examine whether current leave and work time arrangements
suit particular cultural needs and activities.
6.5 Establish an Aboriginal mentoring program for all DELWP
Aboriginal employees, managers of Aboriginal staff and
Aboriginal board members
6.6 Explore a partnership approach within the `Partnership
Agreement’ between DELWP and DEDJTR and our portfolio
agencies (where appropriate) for traineeships, scholarships
and job opportunities.
We work together to
improve Aboriginal
participation.
7. Develop a process
to identify potential
Aboriginal businesses
and enterprises.
7.1 Collate a DELWP specific Aboriginal business directory.
8. Establish a workforce
development strategy
for business groups and
portfolio agencies to
target Aboriginal people
for board positions.
8.1 Connect DELWP’s recruitment efforts with Aboriginal job
seekers by writing advertisements to encourage participation
by Aboriginal people – for example, including the statement
`Aboriginal people are encouraged to apply’.
Business, Executive &
Ministerial Services
(BEMS),
Communications,
Finance & Planning
People & Culture
8.2 Develop a strategic approach to building staff capability across
DELWP and agencies to increase Aboriginal representation at
all levels across the organisation.
8.3 Rotate Aboriginal staff across all agencies and other VPS groups
to build scholarship/career development programs to provide
a supply of trained Aboriginal people to fill positions.
8.4 Identify opportunities for Aboriginal employment and
participation in Land Victoria programs and activities.
Local Infrastructure
Policy & Partnership
8.5 Create an Aboriginal Liaison Officer position in Local
Government Victoria to support and assist the local government
sector to deliver outcomes with and for Aboriginal Victorians.
9. Improve participation
through employment,
procurement and
partnerships, and support
Aboriginal skills and
capability development
in all aspects (including
influencing university
course development).
9.1 Establish an Aboriginal mentoring program for all DELWP
employees and board members.
10. Contribute to the
Victorian Aboriginal
Economic Development
Strategy.
10.1 Ensure department representation and input to strategy
development.
9.2 Sponsor places for Aboriginal corporations, registered Aboriginal
parties and Traditional Owner groups on training courses for
DELWP staff.
People & Culture
(in conjunction with
Business Executive &
Ministerial Services)
9.3 Sponsor students from Aboriginal communities in relevant
tertiary courses (TAFE, universities).
9.4 Partner with other government agencies (as appropriate)
for traineeships, study secondments etc.
11. Review the department’s 11.1 Subject to the Victorian Government Purchasing Board’s
procurement and funding
review of government procurement policies, identify potential
policies, guidelines and
amendments to DELWP procurement policies for Aboriginal
practices to encourage
preferred businesses.
procurement from
Aboriginal service
providers and businesses.
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Finance and Planning
(in conjunction with
Business Executive &
Ministerial Services)
Business Executive &
Ministerial Services
(BEMS)
Finance & Planning
OUTCOME 3
Principles
PARTICIPATION
ANDCOLLABORATION:
COLLABORATION:
Increased
participation
of Aboriginal
communities
PARTICIPATION AND
Increased
participation
of Aboriginal
communities
in
inthe
theplanning
planning
and
delivery
of
DELWP
policies,
services
and
projects
and
improved
and delivery of DELWP policies, services and projects and improved collaboration
collaboration
with DELWP’s
externalinservice
in creating
new opportunities for
with DELWP’s external
service providers
creatingproviders
new opportunities
for participation.
participation..
Action
We
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work together
together toto 12. Increase the capability
improve
Aboriginal
improve Aboriginal
of DELWP portfolio
participation.
participation.
agencies and local
government to fully
participate with
Aboriginal people
across the state.
2016 Priorities
Lead responsibility
12.1 Deliver the Aboriginal Local Government Action Plan, focusing on
council engagement with Aboriginal Victorians in their role as:
- employer,
- service provider (including procurement),
- planning authority (links to Registered Aboriginal Parties
and Traditional Owners), and
- local leaders.
12.2 Support regional local government and Aboriginal communities to
identify place-based opportunities for integrated planning and local
infrastructure initiatives to strengthen culture, build inclusion and
deliver economic participation opportunities as part of the Regional
Growth Plan implementation (with Regional Victoria).
12.3 Support the work of the Mildura Inter-departmental Committee
to improve access to mainstream services and increase economic
participation between Mildura City Council and Aboriginal community
controlled organisations.
12.4 Coordinate, monitor and report on Plan Melbourne short-term
actions to respect and protect our city’s Aboriginal heritage and
to encourage place names that honour local identity and history
(in Melbourne metropolitan region):
- continue an ongoing program of country mapping to improve
understandings and recognition of Aboriginal cultural heritage
values in metropolitan planning processes;
- update the State Planning Policy Framework to link to Aboriginal
country mapping;, and
- update place-naming to ensure that Aboriginal heritage can
be more easily acknowledged in new place names.
12.5 Profile Aboriginal inclusion initiatives delivered as part of Plan
Melbourne through the online Plan Melbourne Living History Library
of innovative delivery (in Melbourne metropolitan region).
Local Infrastructure
Policy & Partnerships
13. Ensure targeted
Aboriginal recruitment
to boards and
committees.
13.1 Engage with Aboriginal community groups to identify opportunities for
expressions of interest on relevant portfolio boards and committees.
13.2 Share case studies of boards and committees working successfully
with Aboriginal Victorians.
13.3 Use provisions of existing native title agreements to appoint
Aboriginal representatives.
Land Management
Policy
We
14. Build and implement
Werecognise
recognise
Aboriginal
peoples’
Aboriginal peoples’
participation strategies
rights
access
and
under the Traditional
rights to
to access
and
role
for
rolein
in Caring
Caring for
Owner Settlement Act
Country.
2010.
Country.
14.1 Develop a collaborative process involving all key DELWP business
groups towards planning and implementing native title settlement
agreement as set out in actions 14.2, 14.3 and 14.4 below.
14.2 Establish parameters around the roles, resources, settlement
implementation and governance arrangements.
14.3 Determine (and approve) key responsibilities, scope, delivery
indicators and key outcomes to be met within a implementation plan.
14.4 Finalise implementation plan and agreed process.
Land Management
Policy
We work together to
impro We work
together to
improve
Aboriginal
participation.ve
Aboriginal
participation.
15. Establish a clear and
meaningful Aboriginal
Engagement Framework
for clear and responsive
relationships.
Local Infrastructure
Policy & Partnerships,
Forward Policy &
Business Strategy
Planning (Planning Group)
Local Infrastructure
Policy & Partnerships
Forward Policy &
Business Strategy
Planning
(Planning Group)
Catchments
(Water & Catchments)
Land Management
Policy (in conjunction
with key agencies)
Land Management
Policy
15.1 Prepare and complete a Request for Quotation to engage consultants. Land Management
15.2 Develop an engagement framework that incorporates the
Policy
recommendations.
15.3 Establish a Project Control Group to oversee the project delivery.
16.1 Identify opportunities for shared outcomes, project coordination
16. Coordinate on shared
and goals.
projects and programs
that meet the guiding
principles under the
Aboriginal Inclusion Plan.
All DELWP Groups
17.1 In partnership with the Metropolitan Planning Authority, support
17. Improve working
Local Infrastructure
local government and Aboriginal communities to identify place-based
relationships with
opportunities for integrated planning and local infrastructure to strengthen
DELWP’s external service
culture, build inclusion and deliver economic participation opportunities.
providers in Natural
Resource Management, 17.2 Support the work of the Regional Management Forum, and from July
2016, the new Regional Partnership bodies, to investigate partnership
Planning and Local
opportunities - including those that celebrate cultural heritage and improve
Government.
access to services for Aboriginal people - through integrated making,
activation and local infrastructure delivery.
17.3 Support key directions of Plan Melbourne to work in partnership with
Aboriginal communities, local government and other government and
community agencies to support the development of and links between
Aboriginal community centres in the northern and western growth areas.
We thank the Taungurung Clans Aboriginal Corporation, representing Taungurung language
speaking Traditional Owners, for permission to use this Taungurung phrase.
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