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Memorandum of Understanding Between Oxfam Community Aid Abroad and ATSIC/ATSIS | ||
| Category: | Agreement | |
| Date: | 2003 | |
| Sub Category: | Memorandum of Understanding | |
| Location: | Australia | |
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| Subject Matter: | Employment and Training | |
| URL: | http://www.hreoc.gov.au/Social_Justice/sj_report/sjreport03/chap3.html | |
| Summary Information: | ||
| The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was developed between Oxfam Community Aid Abroad and ATSIC/ATSIS in early 2003. The MOU aims to integrate a capacity development framework into the service delivery of ATSIC/ATSIS through the undertaking of joint development activities with Oxfam International. | ||
| Detailed Information: | ||
| The purpose of this MOU is to upgrade the skills and training of ATSIC/ATSIS officers for working with Indigenous communities within a 'capacity development' framework. This aim is to be achieved through joint development activities with Oxfam Community Aid Abroad, a community-based aid and development organisation. The MOU will be trialed in three regional offices: Cairns, Queensland; Kalgoorlie, WA; and, Bourke, NSW. The training will consist of two stages. The first stage is for 'staff in regional offices to understand and implement a developmental approach.' The second stage is for 'regional managers and more senior staff to manage staff and programs in undertaking a developmental approach' (Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, 2003). Oxfam's capacity building approach is described as a 'process which engages those involved in the very substance of the development approach' (Oxfam Community Aid Abroad, September 2002). This is firmly centred within a rights based framework, whereby the five core rights are: (Oxfam Community Aid Abroad, August 2003) | ||
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| General Reference |
| Oxfam Community Aid Abroad (September 2002) Submission to the Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs: Inquiry into Capacity Building in Indigenous Communities |
| Oxfam Community Aid Abroad (29 August 2003) Comment on ATSIC Review Panel Discussion Paper |
| Oxfam Community Aid Abroad (2007) Website |
| Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (2003) Social Justice Report 2003 in 'Chapter 3: Indigenous participation in decision making -Transforming the relationship between government and Indigenous peoples.' |
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