MLDRIN requests a dedicated joint workshop to work through the Akwé: Kon Guidelines with State, MDBA and other Indigenous representatives. This is required because of the detailed nature of the guidelines. Their application in particular contexts therefore needs to be discussed and understood by all parties. National Water Initiative Module: Engaging Indigenous Peoples in Water Planning and Management The National Water Initiative (NWI) sets out a number of requirements that all jurisdictions need to achieve, including requirements covering Indigenous participation in water planning and management. These are important procedural requirements for jurisdictions to consider. The Module is intended to: ‘further assist jurisdictions in developing and implementing inclusive water planning and management processes that support Indigenous social, spiritual and customary objectives.’ It includes guidance on appropriate engagement approaches and methodologies for incorporating Indigenous values into water planning. Basin Plan Requirements Basin Plan: Chapter 10, Part 14 specifies a number of matters in relation to which Aboriginal people’s and organisations’ knowledge or opinion needs to be sought or incorporated into planning. The scope of these matters is open to some interpretation. The MDBA’s Yarns Woven report provides an in-depth analysis of the meaning and application of some of these terms. MLDRIN recognises that an understanding of ‘objectives’, ‘outcomes’, ‘values’ and ‘uses’, and how they interrelate is important to guiding good engagement. The following summaries taken from Yarns Woven offer a suggested interpretation of these terms as they relate to water resource planning: Objectives: aspirations, goals, often expressed as a broad concept or wish. Outcomes: practical results on Country, the practical results of realising the objective. Outcomes allow values and uses to be safeguarded and enhanced.
MLDRIN requests a dedicated joint workshop to work through the Akwé: Kon Guidelines with State, MDBA and other Indigenous representatives. This is required because of the detailed nature of the guidelines. Their application in particular contexts therefore needs to be discussed and understood by all parties. National Water Initiative Module: Engaging Indigenous Peoples in Water Planning and Management The National Water Initiative (NWI) sets out a number of requirements that all jurisdictions need to achieve, including requirements covering Indigenous participation in water planning and management. These are important procedural requirements for jurisdictions to consider. The Module is intended to: ‘further assist jurisdictions in developing and implementing inclusive water planning and management processes that support Indigenous social, spiritual and customary objectives.’ It includes guidance on appropriate engagement approaches and methodologies for incorporating Indigenous values into water planning. Basin Plan Requirements Basin Plan: Chapter 10, Part 14 specifies a number of matters in relation to which Aboriginal people’s and organisations’ knowledge or opinion needs to be sought or incorporated into planning. The scope of these matters is open to some interpretation. The MDBA’s Yarns Woven report provides an in-depth analysis of the meaning and application of some of these terms. MLDRIN recognises that an understanding of ‘objectives’, ‘outcomes’, ‘values’ and ‘uses’, and how they interrelate is important to guiding good engagement. The following summaries taken from Yarns Woven offer a suggested interpretation of these terms as they relate to water resource planning: Objectives: aspirations, goals, often expressed as a broad concept or wish. Outcomes: practical results on Country, the practical results of realising the objective. Outcomes allow values and uses to be safeguarded and enhanced.
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