Jawun: 2017 Learnings and Insights

Working across local

organisations and in place,

Jawun fosters greater

collaboration within regions,

across regions, and across

sectors—which plays a critical

role in Indigenous empowerment.

Key to Jawun’s empowerment model is the

facilitation of connections, leading to collaboration.

This may be between Indigenous leaders and regions,

or between Indigenous stakeholders and their

government, corporate or philanthropic counterparts.

Collaboration is a source of social capita

and,

according to Empowered Communities leaders,

the ‘collective agency’ critical for true Indigenous

empowerment

For them and Indigenous leaders

and organisations partnering with Jawun,

The network is the most powerful thing about Jawun. The individual

Indigenous leaders that are part of the Jawun story, and people

involved in the Jawun story at all layers, have seen their networks

expand. The people they know, the companies they know, the people

they can telephone, the people they bump into, the people that ask

them to join things, and so on, that’s the biggest single impact.

—NOEL PEARSON,

JAWUN PATRON AND FOUNDER OF CAPE YORK PARTNERSHIPS

FIGURE 8:

JAWUN—EMPOWERING COMMUNITIES THROUGH CONNECTIONS

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2017 LEARNINGS AND INSIGHTS