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Executive summary

IX

Key insights

X

About this report

XII

Summary of the 2015 Learnings and Insights report

XIV

Jawun - a history

XVIII

Capacity building - a pathway to Indigenous empowerment

1

1. Empowering Indigenous leadership

3

1.1 Secondee support for leadership

5

1.2 Emerging Leaders

9

1.3 Indigenous Corporate Leadership program

17

1.4 Stories of Female Leadership network

20

2. Strengthening Indigenous organisations

23

2.1 Applying the 7-S framework to capacity building

25

3. Accelerating Indigenous-led enterprise

38

4. Enabling Indigenous-led reform

47

4.1 Holistic, community-wide reform in Cape York

49

4.2 Issue-specific reform in Shepparton

51

4.3 Nation-building reform by the Ngarrindjeri peoples

52

4.4 National reform through Empowered Communities

53

5. Supporting collaboration

59

5.1 Collaboration within regions

62

5.2 Collaboration across regions

62

5.3 Collaboration across sectors

65

6. A new dawn for Indigenous aspirations

71

Figures

VI

Figure 1: Returned secondees’ skills, and benefits to corporate and government partners—2015 survey results

XV

Figure 2: Corporate and government partners’ engagement with Indigenous Australia—2015 survey results

XVI

Figure 3: Returned secondees’ engagement with Indigenous Australia—2015 survey results

XVII

Figure 4: The Jawun footprint

XIX

Figure 5: The Jawun empowerment model

XX

Figure 6: Operational focus of Jawun’s partners

25

Figure 7: Jawun’s adaptation of the ‘7-S’ framework for organisational effectiveness

26

Figure 8: Jawun - Empowering communities through connections

60

Feature

VI

Shane Phillips, Tribal Warrior Aboriginal Corporation—building a strong community in inner Sydney

34

Case studies

VI

Gutjapin Gumana - stepping into new leadership in two worlds

6

Paul Briggs and Simon Factor - skilled support for leadership

8

Rarrtjiwuy Melanie Herdman - a rising Yolŋu voice

14

Derek Walker, Ngopamuldi Aboriginal Corporation - jobs for a nation

44

Sean Gordon, Darkinjung Local Aboriginal Land Council - collaborating for community

66

Vignettes

VII

Indigenous Corporate Leadership program - Andrea Mason

18

Indigenous Corporate Leadership program - Chris Ingrey

19

Indigenous Corporate Leadership program - Brad Cooke

19

Kirsty Broderick

21

Kimberley Land Council

27

Nirrumbuk Aboriginal Corporation

28

Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority

29

Dhimurru Aboriginal Corporation

30

Western Desert Dialysis

30

Darkinjung Local Aboriginal Land Council

32

Cape York Institute

33

Indigenous-led enterprise - Wild Eats

41

Indigenous-led enterprise - Cape York Conservation

42

Empowered Communities in the East Kimberley

55

Empowered Communities in the West Kimberley

56

Empowered Communities in Inner Sydney

57

Collaboration across regions - Paul Briggs and Ian Trust

63

From opportunity to empowerment - Megan Wilkin and her family

68

Notes

76