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Past Attendee, Building supportive funding arrangements & strengthening corporate governance workshop. June, 2010

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Past Attendee, Building supportive funding arrangements & strengthening corporate governance Workshop. June, 2010


Day One - Agenda
Masterclass time: 9am - 4.30pm

Morning tea, lunch & afternoon tea will be provided each day

8:30
REGISTRATION & WELCOME COFFEE
9:00
WELCOMING REMARKS FROM BERNIE YATES
MASTERCLASS PART ONE:
1 . Current relationships between organisations and government agencies

  • What’s working and where things are broken
  • Why government agencies and NGOs need to work and walk together
  • Are ‘whole-of-government’ or ‘whole-of community’ approaches a pipedream?
  • Closing the gap between rhetoric and practice
2. Implications and opportunities from COAG’s new Closing the Gap strategy and funding

  • Service delivery principles and funding for national partnership agreements
  • Joining in and shaping the reform process
  • The critical role of good community engagement
  • Building partnerships that count
  • What to do when problems arise?
3. Practising citizen-centred service delivery for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians

  • Remembering in whose interests we’re working
  • COAG principles for service delivery to Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders:
– Prioritisation, Indigenous engagement, access
– Sustainability, integration, accountability
– Strategies that work in urban, regional and remote contexts
4:30
CLOSE OF DAY ONE

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