Paper: ADVOCACY SUPPORT
Specialising In
- Natural resource and social planning
- Community consultation and facilitation
- Policy development
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- Sustainable Natural Resource Management
- Social Planning
- Community Consultation and Facilitation
- Consensus Building, Mediation and Conflict Resolution
- Advocacy Support
- Organisational Diagnosis and Development
- Provision of Policy Advice
Assistance with Advocacy
For community groups seeking to bring about change, we will help you to develop advocacy strategies which can be met within your financial and personnel resources.
Projects completed include:
WWF Australia threatened species recovery
Preparatory work and a facilitated workshop during 2004 to assist WWF Australia in developing a new approach to planning and implementing threatened species recovery in Australia. Using the parallels between human health care and ecosystem health care, this project resulted in a substantive internal report designed to assist WWF in advocating these changes.
Humane Society International (Aust)
In 2006/07 Community Solutions prepared for HSI (Aust) a review of the national State of the Environment Report 2006. The review provided HSI (Aust) with a tool to assist in its advocacy for improved species and habitat protection at the national level.
During 2000/2001, the partners in Community Solutions worked with the Humane Society International's Australian arm to develop a Report Card profiling the performance of State and Commonwealth Governments in meeting the goals and objectives of the National Biodiversity Strategy. That work was complemented by a detailed position paper on biodiversity conservation, presented to the Commonwealth in the lead-up to a Federal election.
A youth café for Bankstown
In late 1999, Jane Elix worked with the Bankstown Multicultural Youth Service (BMYS) to consult with stakeholders in the area on the establishment of a youth centre/café for the Bankstown CBD. This was in response to community concern about the number of street frequenting young people in the CBD who have nowhere to 'hang out'. Jane worked with BMYS in meeting with local businesses, government officers, other service providers, cultural organisations and the police. She also met with and surveyed street frequenting young people to ensure that the final proposals would meet their needs. The final report will be used by BMYS in pursuing their goal of a youth specific facility.
Shoalwater Bay Inquiry
The partners in Community Solutions worked with both the Australian Conservation Foundation and The Wilderness Society, to assist those organisations in putting their positions to the 1993/94 Inquiry into the future use of the Shoalwater Bay Military Training Area on Queensland's central coast. Community Solutions assisted with the preparation of submissions to the Inquiry, presentations to the Inquiry and follow-up work on behalf of the two organisations.
Jervis Bay Marine Park
The partners in Community Solutions worked with the Australian Conservation Foundation to assist with the development of a lobbying kit, promoting the declaration of a Marine Protected Area and opposing the placement of a naval armaments depot at the Bay. Community Solutions also worked with and provided advocacy training for staff involved in this campaign.