Projects

YMAC’s Projects unit brings together a range of capacity support services for our Prescribed Bodies Corporate (PBC), Aboriginal corporations and working group clients. These includes heritage support services, PBC Executive Office, Land and Sea Management and a range of social, cultural and economic development projects.

Key 2021–2022 outputs included:

• Developing social surroundings capabilities within the Heritage team, in conjunction with the Research team. • Project management of the Plan for our Parks negotiations. • Strategic planning services for PBC clients. • Cultural mapping projects. • Developing the Land Administration

Governance Framework. • Building capacity to engage with the emerging renewable energy space. • Grant applications, implementation and acquittal. • Extensive advocacy, particularly around State heritage legislation.

Key highlights:

Nanda – Barrel Well Nanda Community Aboriginal Corporation (BWNCAC) YMAC worked with BWNCAC to develop and implement a Connecting to Country grant. The team undertook an on-Country camping trip to visit important cultural sites and engage in inter-generational knowledge transfer activities.

Ngarlawangga social surroundings The Projects and Research units delivered various stages of the Ngarlawangga social surroundings project, including on-Country field trips, workshops, meetings and reports. The aim is to understand the environment’s social dimensions and how this can be impacted by developments.

Strategic planning In the past year, YMAC has worked with Nganhurra Thanardi Garrbu, Yingarrda, Nanda, Budina and Malgana Aboriginal Corporations to design strategic plans that include their mission, vision and values.

Left: Nanda Country. Picture: José Kalpers