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ICV & DKA Collaborate in Communities
Jul 25, 2019
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DKA has signed an MoU with Indigenous Community Volunteers to strengthen the desert
Desert Knowledge Australia (DKA) and Indigenous Community Volunteers (ICV) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on initiatives that impact positively on social and economic development in remote Australia. The two organisations share values, priorities, and ways of working, and will partner on projects that strengthen Central Australian communities.
Following a number of successful ICV supported projects in Aputula, a landscaping project was developed with local community members to support the Aputula Aboriginal Corporation’s plan to have a tourist walk for visitors to view prime heritage buildings within the community.
Desert Knowledge Australia (DKA) and Indigenous Community Volunteers (ICV) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on initiatives that impact positively on social and economic development in remote Australia. The two organisations share values, priorities, and ways of working, and will partner on projects that strengthen Central Australian communities.
DKA is a national not-for-profit organisation based in Alice Springs. It was established to encourage learning, research and sustainable socioeconomic development in desert and remote Australia. DKA’s programs focus on desert leadership, renewable energy, digital innovation and desert research. DKA is the landlord of the Desert Knowledge Precinct, 73 hectares of Arrernte land in Alice Springs where a group of organisations are striving to make the desert a better place to work, learn and live.
ICV is a First Nations organisation working with First Nations communities across Australia. Communities invite ICV to work with them on their priorities. ICV and communities work together to co-design and deliver community development and research activities drawing on the expertise, strengths and assets of communities. ICV then provides access to skilled volunteers in places where communities have identified that education, healthcare and employment opportunities are limited. ICV works to develop human and community capacity to improve quality of life, health, social and economic wellbeing and participation in society.
“DKA has extensive knowledge about remote Australia that ICV can draw on for community-led research and to inform the design of community-led development activities,” said ICV CEO Stephanie Harvey.
“DKA and ICV share vision and values, we both work in a collaborative way to maximise shared impact. This is a partnership with limitless potential to strengthen remote Australia,” said Ms Harvey.
The two values-based organisations will share the lessons learned from previous projects and work together to develop research, undertake evaluation and impact measurement and inform program and policy development.
“ICV has done some really impressive work around designing community development projects as well as evaluating their success, and we’re keen to learn from them,” said DKA CEO Dr Dan Tyson.
“DKA is committed to sustainable socioeconomic development in the desert, and developing resources that help us and other non-profit organisations fulfil our vision for stronger desert communities is part of that work,” said Dr Tyson.
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