Challenges and Strategies for Indigenous Australian Governance

This report provides an executive summary of the challenges and strategies for Indigenous Australian governance. It explores the concept of community capacity building, indigenous community governance, and programs aimed at strengthening governance capacity. The report analyzes challenges faced by the Australian government and other organizations in implementing effective governance, including issues like welfare dependency, local participation, and the need for intercultural understanding. It examines programs like COAG trials and Shared Responsibility Agreements, and discusses the importance of proper decision-making processes, cultural values, and accountability. The report also addresses capacity intensification programs for indigenous organizations, highlighting issues such as literacy, numeracy, and lateral violence. The conclusion emphasizes the need for effective strategies to strengthen the capacity of corporate governance within Indigenous Australian communities.

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Executive Summary
The report helps in understanding the different requirements of the Indigenous Australians as to
properly develop the effective governance in Australia. The report will revolve around the
different challenges that have been faced by the Australian government along with other
organizations in making such change and implementing such changes in the society as well.
The main aim and purpose of the report is to understand about the challenges faced by the
individuals in Australia to develop the effective as well as efficient governance in the respective
state. The changes that re required have to be analyzed as well.
The conclusion will be based on the analysis along with proper implementation of the strategies
that will help in bringing some changes in the indigenous Australia as well. The conclusion will
help in discussing the requirements in strengthening the capacity of the corporate governance as
well.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Concept of community capacity building........................................................................................3
Concept of Indigenous Community Governance............................................................................4
Programs related to Indigenous Governance Capacity-Strengthening............................................6
Capacity intensification programs targeting aboriginal organizations............................................8
Consideration of conditions of challenges by Indigenous Australian in development of effective
governance.......................................................................................................................................9
Promising approaches in Indigenous Australia.............................................................................11
Different Success Facilitators........................................................................................................12
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................12
References......................................................................................................................................14

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Introduction
The expression capacity strengthening is used for the analysis of the strength based
perspective wherein the different individuals in the organization are having proper knowledge
about the skills wherein there can be improvement in the growth of the individuals. This is the
time wherein the individuals will properly learn proper engagement in different kinds of
activities that will help in contributing towards the well being of the individuals as well as the
prosperity.
The main aim of the report is to properly analyze the different requirements of
Indigenous Australian to properly develop effective governance as this will help in driving the
own development. The main purpose of the report is to understand the proper condition wherein
the people of Australia are challenged in order to properly develop effective kind of governance
in the respective state.
The structure of the report includes the concept of the capacity of the community building
as this will help in improving the indigenous governance that has entered into the policy arena of
Australia in the year 1996 with proper context of reducing the welfare dependency that is
indigenous in nature along with fostering the participation that is local in nature for proper
decision making. The new approaches that are trailing have to be included as well in the
coordination as well as partnership across the government.
Concept of community capacity building
The concept of capacity building of the community is introduced in order to reduce the
welfare dependency that is indigenous in nature. Proper strengthening of the capacity of the

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organizations in indigenous Australia is intercultural phenomenon that requires proper alteration
between the indigenous individuals and commitment in the society that is wider in nature. For
few decades, indigenous leaders are generally concerned regarding different number of
representatives of the government who consults them regarding the entire development of the
objectives in piece meal process (Jennings, Spurling and Askew 2014). This objective focuses on
the requirements of the internal administration and they do not involve the effect as well as lack
of the different efforts along with lack of well designed development.
There have been several attempts in order to properly improve the community
governance that is indigenous in nature in Australia. This kind of objectives includes proper
working with different managers of the organizations in Australia that are indigenous in nature.
This is done in order to facilitate the greater jurisdiction over different matters that affect the
people who are indigenous in nature by proper application of the flexible arrangements of
funding as well as developing processes along with structures in proper accordance with the
cultural systems as well as processes that are indigenous in nature. In order to gain and get
proper balance between the political support, operational autonomy as well as accountability and
performance has been critical in nature.
Concept of Indigenous Community Governance
The governance refers to the proper process of evolving relationships, institutions as well
as structures wherein a group of individuals, community as well as the society properly
categorize themselves in a collective manner as this will help in achieving things that matters to
them. It helps in encompassing both the informal and formal structures along with different
processes. In the setting of indigenous community of Australia, community governance

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appropriately involves into proper strengthening of the decision making process that are
indigenous in nature. This has full control over the organizations along with the building proper
skills of the individuals as well as collections that are collective as well as personal in nature.
The indigenous decision making process helps in sharing proper commitment to the governance
process of the organization as this will help in identifying the goals, processes as well and this is
important in nature as well in improvement of the delivery of the service as well as raising
proper prosperity and health of the indigenous communities in Australia.
There are fundamental challenges in the community governance that is indigenous in
nature that includes lack of understandings that will be agreed in nature. There are different
communities that are different from one another and the decision making is done:
 Proper identity and group membership wherein who will be self in their governance
 Who has the full authority in the group (Prince et al. 2013)
 Proper approved rules and set of laws as to make certain authority that has to be exercised
properly and the individuals making decisions will be accountable in nature
 To understand the process of enforcing the decisions
 In order to understand the interests and rights with other individuals are negotiated
 Lastly to understand the arrangements that will be made and will be best in nature as this
will help in achieving specific goals
Proper governance is crucial issue and this is defined with the values that are based on
culture and codes that are normative in nature as this helps in understanding the right way to
perform the right things. It is agreed that proper governance helps in comprising proper power,

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leadership and legitimacy along with accountability. On the other hand, meager governance is
generally identified with factors that include favoritism, nepotism and public officials as well.
Programs related to Indigenous Governance Capacity-Strengthening
The strengthening programs of the capacity in Government
In the year 2004, the approach of the whole government in the indigenous development
was properly recognized through policy coordination of indigenous office. The concept of the
whole of the government helped in aiming in strengthening different capacity of the communities
that are indigenous in nature and helps in negotiating with the governments as this will help in
addressing the priorities of the local community along with capacity of the government to work
in innovative (Karmel et al. 2014). This will help in making the capacity in a coordinated and
flexible manner by properly addressing the fragmentation as well as lack of coordination of then
programs of the government (Bodkin-Andrews and Carlson 2016). There has been a different
opportunity that has been created by the high level representation of the government for the
indigenous groups as this will help in tapping into skills as well as proper base of funding of the
different administration departments in an easier way. The government of Australia properly
implemented two reforms that are interrelated in nature that are COAG trials as well as Shared
Responsibility Agreements.
SRAs need indigenous community by making proper certain commitments in achieving
appropriate objective in return for the management committing diverse services and financial
support. There were different attempts that has been made early in implementing capacity
building through SRAs that has resulted in confusion as well as tensions about the proper
meaning of the implementation of various efforts for the indigenous government as well as

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organizations and proper analysis is done regarding providing proper leadership for these
initiatives (Brown et al. 2014). The systems that are non indigenous in nature tend to bound
rather than enable the entire capacity of the indigenous institutions along with different
communities. For proper and successful building of capacity there are different substantial
changes that are required that involves:
 Proper assessment of the constraints that are real systematic in nature as this will help in
strengthening the capacity that is indigenous in nature
 Proper development of the goals as well as approaches that are agreed in nature between
the representatives those are justifiable indigenous in nature as well as the governments at
different levels
 A proper shift in the entire power
The main motive of COAG trails intended to discover the different ways that are newly
placed for the entire government in order to work efficiently and together along with other
communities as this will help in addressing the different needs of the organization as well as the
individuals in Australia who are indigenous in nature. A suitable outline review of the trails of
COAG has found that the focus was different from one another and the implementation was
different from one another as well. The key needs are as follows:
 A proper deferential interaction between the indigenous communities as well as the
Australian government (Bennett-Levy et al. 2017)
 Proper focus on the solutions that are locally responsive and the responsibility that is
shared (Buergelt et al. 2017)

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 Proper and organized changes in the decision making as well as the coordination
mechanisms for the practice of whole of government (Clifford, Doran and Tsey 2013)
 Proper training in all levels of community companies as well as government in analyzing
the performance of the whole of government (Short 2016)
These are the different kinds of task that requires proper pattern shift as well as change
that is systematic in nature (Gibson et al. 2015). There are different frameworks of the program
that constrain the ability of the civil servants who are responsive locally in the financial and
political management. The distant service providers perceive the program devolution that has
increased red tape and the current funding situation was worse than before (Brusse et al. 2014).
With the help of proper illustration of the tension between the independence as well as
accountability along with the service providers from distant areas who easily deliver more
twenty performances as well as financial reports per year, they are the ones who assert the
funding arrangements that are flexible as well as long term in nature will help in improving the
stability of the entire organization and this will help in increasing the effectiveness of the
outcomes of the meeting programs.
Capacity intensification programs targeting aboriginal organizations
The capacity of strengthening of leadership is a long term process and the organizations
that are indigenous in nature provide various important economic, social as well as cultural
services in the communities (Sushames, Engelberg and Gebel 2017). The proper research that
has been done through indigenous community Governance project helped in documenting the
indigenous communities and organizations that are highly competent in nature as this will help in
balancing the imperatives that are cultural in nature. This will help in practicing within the

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requirements of the programs of funding of the government as well as incorporation (Chapman,
Smith and Martin 2014).
There are different other indigenous organizations that fail in low level of the literacy as
well as the numeracy and the risk of the teaching programs under the proper guise of the building
capacity are used as the substitute for the proper as well as sound kind of education from primary
to the level of tertiary (Zwar et al. 2017). There are other challenges as well that includes
violence that is lateral in nature such as gossip and jealousy. There has been a different program
that has been developed in order to educate the directors as well as the managers of the
aboriginal organizations as this will help them in understanding the statutory obligations as well
as in order to strengthen the administrative skills (Stefanelli et al. 2017).
Consideration of conditions of challenges by Indigenous Australian in development of
effective governance
There has been lack of proper programs of training in order to properly teach the different
members of the board as to deal with the difficult issues in the business that can be related to
legal issues as well. There were another issues as well that was related to the handling the
stakeholders of the company (Thomas et al. 2014). The office of the registrar of the indigenous
communities developed as well as provided proper range of the training programs that was
related to corporate governance for different indigenous communities as well as for the
governing boards or committees.
The different international studies of the different capacity strengthening initiatives
helped in making successful leaders who have the following qualities:

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 Properly persuade others with the positive energy even in difficult situations (Reilly et
al. 2016)
 Properly think creatively as well as strategically about the development of the capacity as
the proper way of improving the performance and making it better
 Proper usage of informal networks as well as contacts along with social standing as to
properly safeguard the entire organization (Zorbas and Elston 2016)
 Proper adoption of the style of leadership as there is a growth in the entire organization
Proper legitimacy as well as power in the aboriginal settings comes out from traditional
as well as informal with the enhancement of the capacity that generally evolves from
experimentation or in the form of incremental or pragmatic process. The most essential
component of the strengthening of the capacity is the development of proper leadership. In
Australia, there is a proper substantiation that the aboriginal leaders are properly required to
balance as well as negotiate the obligations in the mainstream along with the networks in the
indigenous communities. According to (), he described the indigenous ethnically based doctrine
that helps in providing internal mechanism for properly monitoring the structure of supremacy
such as:
 Proper respect as well as involvement to familiar good in return for self-sufficiency
 Proper interconnections between the land, waterways as well as humans (Glover et al.
2015)
 The critical nature of the inter relationships of the humans replicate in the systems that
are composite and there is impact of these systems have community control that is
successful in nature
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The leaders are properly connected with one another with the help of informal networks
that are extensive in nature. The leaders who are more visible are the ones who able to exercise
the proper authority with the help of different networks. On the other hand, the recognition of the
indigenous networks those are informal in nature in Australia is barely understood by the ones
who are outside it (Kapellas et al. 2014). There are different forms of the ability strengthening of
the organizations wherein the capability of the supremacy is strengthened by the persons who are
indigenous in nature and they create their own rules as well as strategy along with policies as this
will help in scheming the mechanisms that are local in nature as to put in force different
regulations and the leaders are held responsible as well. The key principles of designing good
governance are as follows:
 Proper governance that is networked in nature that takes into account the requirements of
the individuals (Slatyer et al. 2016)
 Proper cultural geographies of the governance
 Proper emphasis has to be given on the internal relationships as well as the connections
that are shared in nature for proper determination of the self governance as well as
representation
 Lastly, the shared responsibility is the basis of the distribution as well as clarification
roles, powers as well as decision making in the different social networks and groups
Promising approaches in Indigenous Australia
There are different approaches that are promising in nature and these starts with a proper
emphasis on the basis of the individuals who are performing in order to improve the aboriginal
governance as well as their attempts in order to add proper value to the strengths as well as

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capacities that already exist in nature (Barney, Shannon and Nakata 2014). A proper range of the
different models as well as approaches that are used has to be analyzed properly that includes
participatory methodologies in order to generate proper learning. There are different measures to
improve the governance with the help of imposing approach of one size fits all as this will help
in addressing the aboriginal governance that are unlikely sustainable in nature.
Different Success Facilitators
There are different facilitators to success for strengthening the organizational capacity as
this will help in improving the aboriginal community governance that are as follows:
 Proper commitment at the higher levels of the government that is in partnership with the
National Congress of Australia’s individuals as well as other indigenous communities
and organizations to create an approach that is long in nature along with flexible
arrangements of funding
 Proper achievement of the partnership that is real in nature along with community
ownership
 Proper understanding of the indigenous contexts that are complex in nature along with
the service requirements as well as with the use of the steps in building confidence as
well as trust
 Proper approaches that are tailored in nature that properly includes focus on the soft as
well as hard capacities

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Conclusion
Therefore, it can be inferred that the local and global evidence shows that will help in
improving the indigenous health, quality of the life of the individuals as well as wellbeing of the
individuals as well. The governance that is good and appropriate in nature is relevant for the
COAG building blocks that are endorsed in nature in order to reduce the indigenous demerits
such as early childhood, economic participation as well as leadership health as well.
Lastly, proper strengthening of the organizational capacity that is indigenous in nature is
the concept that is context dependent. It has to be properly carried out within the development
criteria that require proper collaboration as well as long term commitment as well. The
strengthening of the capacity of the government as well as indigenous managers is beneficial in
nature and this will help in improving the society governance that is aboriginal in nature. This
will be done in a recurring procedure of development and this is the precursor for sustainable
development.

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