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Dry Tropics is working with the community, in a planned way, to
address natural resource management issues across the
Burdekin Dry Tropics Region and beyond.
All
members of the community are valued resource managers. The
community includes traditional owners, landholders, community
groups, not for profit organizations, schools, local government,
industry, business and the general public.
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Dry Tropics informs, consults, involves, collaborates with and
empowers the community through a range of activities that bring
people together. These activities raise awareness and knowledge,
increase the participation of the community in natural resource
management activities and increase the participation of the
communtiy in natural resource management decision making
processes.
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Dry Tropics undertakes capacity building activities that help
people to better understand and manage their changing
circumstances. The emphasis of capacity building activities is
co-learning - everyone learning together - with an outcome of
increased awareness, skills, knowledge, motivation, commitment and
confidence.
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Dry Tropics’s Community Engagement Team, Program staff, CEO,
Board and all staff contribute to community engagement and capacity
building activities.
Our Community Engagement Team
The Community Engagement Team
supports the communtiy engagement activities of the organisation.
The Community Engagement Team includes the Manager - who
focuses on the strategic communtiy engagement direction of the
organisation, a Land and Sea Coordinator - who focuses on
traditional owner engagement and capacity building across the
region, and four Community Support and Engagement Facilitators
- who focus on engaging with and supporting the community across
four different 'zones' of the region.
There are three sub programs that support communtiy engagement
and capacity building across the organisation. These are:
