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2007/08 NEW PROJECTS
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Project Name: Hands Across the Desert: Linking
Desert Aboriginal Australians to the Bush Foods Market
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 Client Name:
DAFF
Outcomes: Facilitation of the transfer of
knowledge between Aboriginal groups and the bush foods industry in
desert regions of Australia and to connect Aboriginal entrepreneurs
with the bush foods markets
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Project Name: Information = Power: Walk the
value chain
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 Client Name:
Natural
Resource Management Board (NT) Inc
Outcomes: To build knowledge and capacity of
central Australian Aboriginal participants of the bush food
industry to enable greater opportunity for the development of
successful business enterprises. This project links to ‘Hands
Across the Desert’.
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Project Name: Stories inLand
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Client Name: Rural Industries Research &
Development Corporation
Outcomes: Stories inLand is directed at
improved economic outcomes for landholders in remote desert
Australia and the communities they belong to through involvement in
a portfolio of NRM activities. The project will study the
development, adoption and impact of a group of four to five
Aboriginal communities who create and locally distribute stories of
traditional land management using short video and slide/narration
media, and learning how this communication among Aboriginal land
managers can contribute to improving effectiveness of land
management.
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Project Name: Evaluation of Parents and
Learning (PaL)
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 Client Name: Rio Tinto
Ltd
Outcomes: Evaluation of the PaL program and how
it contributes to the development of individuals and the community.
In addition it will look at the lessons learned and how they can be
used to improve and expand the program.
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2007/08 CONTINUING PROJECTS
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Project Name: Implementing ACRIS
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 Client Name:
DEWHA
Outcomes: The Australian Collaborative
Rangeland Information System (ACRIS) reports and interprets change
in the rangelands based on national and jurisdictional datasets.
ACRIS is a partnership between the Australian Government and
State/NT governments with responsibility for rangeland issues.
(
Link to report)
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Project Name: Review of the Kimberley
Indigenous Management Support Services (Cattle and Country Pt
2)
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 Client Name: WA Department of
Agriculture and Food and the Indigenous Land
Corporation
Outcomes: A review of the KIMSS program, and
development of the annual monitoring and evaluation framework, will
help to identify how to get greater engagement of Aboriginal people
in the pastoral industry
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Project Name: Indigenous Pastoral Employment
Review (Cattle and Country Pt 1)
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 Client Name:
Indigenous Land
Corporation and Meat and Livestock Australia
Outcomes: A review of past and current
initiatives, programs and models of Aboriginal involvement in
pastoralism across arid Australia will help to identify how to get
greater engagement of Aboriginal people in the pastoral
industry
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Project Name: Indigenous Pastoral Program
Review (Cattle and Country Pt 1)
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 Client Name:
Indigenous Land
Corporation
Outcomes: An evaluation of the Indigenous
Pastoral Program in the Northern Territory to provide key learning
for the future success of this and similar programs
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Project Name: WaterSmart Pastoral
Production™
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Client Name: DAFF
Outcomes: This project combined grazing
management with water management and monitoring technologies to
reduce costs in pastoral enterprises, improve stock management,
control total grazing pressure and ultimately enhance the
sustainability of enterprises
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Project Name: Central Australian Grazing
Strategies
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 Client Name:
DAFF
Outcomes: This project sought to demonstrate
property-scale trials of rotational grazing and intensification
options that will result in improved productivity, environmental
health, profitability and, ultimately, sustainability of
enterprises. The work is carried out with producers to ensure
on-ground relevance and implementation.
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Project Name: Enabling the Market: Incentives
for Biodiversity in the Rangelands (final report in press)
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 Client
Name: DEWHA
Outcomes: The project reviewed existing
incentive schemes and opportunities for rangelands, developing a
rangeland condition metric, and designing a conceptual market-based
scheme for environmental stewardship
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Project Name: Cross-jurisdictional Management
of Feral Camels to Protect Natural Resource Management and Cultural
Values
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 Client Name:
DEWHA
Outcomes: This project is designing effective
long-term cross-jurisdictional strategies for feral camel
management in arid Australia
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Project Name: People, Communities and Economies
of Lake Eyre Basin
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 Client Name: DEWHA
Outcomes: This project is developing tools to
improve sustainable natural resource management at local levels in
the multi-jurisdictional system of the Lake Eyre Basin. It will
define pathways for building community capacity for sustainable
natural resource management.
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Project Name: Development of a Fire and
Vegetation Management Strategy for Uluru–Kata Tjuta National
Park
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 Client Name: Parks
Australia North
Outcomes: This project developed a management
strategy and operational plan for the management of fire in a
highly-visited national park with cross-cultural management
objectives
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Project Name: Growing the Desert: Effective
Educational Pathways for Remote Indigenous Peoples (final report in
press)
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 Client
Name: National Centre for Vocational
Education Research (NCVER) with additional funding from
Australian
Flexible Learning Framework
Outcomes: This project investigated education
and training pathways and access for Aboriginal people across the
desert regions in central Australia, with a view to generating
information about successful practices across a range of pathways.
This included an analysis of flexible learning and adult and
community education, with a focus on accredited vocational
education and training.
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Project Name: Evaluation of the Minerals
Council of Australia and Australian Government Memorandum of
Understanding on Indigenous Employment and Enterprise
Development
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 Client Name: Minerals Council of Australia
Outcomes: Evaluation and assessment of the
robustness and effectiveness of the MoU rollout and the process of
engagement between industry, business, government agencies and the
Aboriginal communities to achieve the aims of the MoU
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Project Name: Alice
Springs: Solar City
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 Client
Name: Department
of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts - Australia's
Solar Cities
Outcomes: As part of the consortium that won
the Alice Springs Solar Cities bid, DKCRC will undertake two
activities:
- implementation of a retro-fitted sustainable house to
illustrate reduced water and energy use, and
- sustainable arid-zone living in an average suburban house
monitoring and evaluation of the Solar Cities initiative.
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