Janet Hunt
The benefits of Caring for Country in NSW
Wednesday, 8 April 2009
There exists a growing body of literature about the benefits to Indigenous people, as well as to the environment, of living on and caring for land and sea country. However, most of these findings emanate from Northern Australia, where Aboriginal people are usually working on their own Aboriginal-owned or -controlled land. NSW is the state with the largest absolute number of Indigenous people, but their landholdings comprise less than one per cent of the state.
'Development' in Indigenous Australia: international meanings and local approaches
Wednesday, 11 June 2008
There is growing recognition that a 'development' approach to Indigenous communities could be useful, in contrast to (or to complement) a service delivery approach to Indigenous Affairs. But what does a development approach mean? There are many different ideas about what 'development' is and how it is achieved, and hence many different approaches to 'development'. This seminar will canvass some approaches to 'development' common in the international arena and critically explore how they are being articulated in Indigenous Australia, explicitly or implicitly.
Failure, Evidence & New Ideas
Topical Issue 1 / 2008
March 2008 - Failure, Evidence & New Ideas
Jenny Macklin, the federal Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, delivered a directions speech entitled 'Closing The Gap' to the National Press Club on 27 February 2008. This is Janet Hunt's response, first published in The Canberra Times on 29 February 2008.
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Strengthening Indigenous Community Governance: a step towards advancing Reconciliation in Australia
Topical Issue 4 / 2005
April 2005 - Strengthening Indigenous Community Governance
'Strengthening Indigenous Community Governance: a step towards advancing Reconciliation in Australia', a paper presented at Peace, Justice and Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific Region Conference, April 1-3 2005, Queensland University.
Capacity development in the international development context: Implications for Indigenous Australia
Discussion Paper 278 / 2005
Abstract:
Capacity development has become a key concept in international development in recent years. Older approaches involving technical cooperation, in which knowledge and skills were to be transferred to developing countries, have been unsuccessful. In contrast capacity development is viewed as an endogenous process within organisations and communities which are themselves embedded in wider systems. Understanding the features of these systems which might support rather than inhibit capacity development is therefore important.
Janet Hunt, Fellow CAEPR
Janet Hunt has worked in international development since 1985, specializing in non-government organizations in the Asia-Pacific region, as well as gender and development. She has been the Executive Director of the Australian Council for Overseas Aid, the peak body for international aid and development NGOs, and the International Women's Development Agency, and has worked extensively in the Asia-Pacific region. Since 1999 she has spent considerable time working with and researching local NGOs in East Timor. She has lectured in International Development at Deakin and RMIT Universities.
CAEPR Publications & Research Outputs:
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Contested Governance: Culture, power and institutions in Indigenous Australia
Research Monograph 29 / 2008
ISBN 9781921536045 (Print Version)
ISBN 9781921536052 (Online Version)
Abstract:
It is gradually being recognised by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians that getting contemporary Indigenous governance right is fundamental to improving Indigenous well-being and generating sustained socioeconomic development. This collection of papers examines the dilemmas and challenges involved in the Indigenous struggle for the development and recognition of systems of governance that they recognise as both legitimate and effective.
Building Indigenous community governance in Australia: Preliminary research findings
Working Paper 31 / 2006
ISSN 1442 3871
ISBN 0 7315 4930 9
Abstract:
This is a preliminary research report from the first year of fieldwork conducted by the Indigenous Community Governance Project (ICGP). The Project is exploring the nature of Indigenous community governance in diverse contexts and locations across Australia through a series of diverse case studies—to understand what works, what doesn’t work, and why. A comparative analysis of the Project’s case studies is revealing that governance and decision-making in Indigenous community governance is shaped by multiple historical, cultural and political relationships.
Indigenous Community Governance Project: Year two research findings
Working Paper 36 / 2007
ISSN 1442 3871
ISBN 0 7315 4935 X
Abstract:
This is the second research report by the Indigenous Community Governance Project (ICGP). The ICGP is exploring the nature of Indigenous community governance in Australia—to understand what works, what doesn’t work, and why. The first report, based on 2005 fieldwork, was published as CAEPR Working Paper No. 31/2006.
This report brings together findings from the fieldwork conducted during 2006, based on evidence drawn from case studies of Indigenous governance in action within differing community, geographical, cultural and political settings across the nation.
