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This project is entitled "Ulkumantjuta Ukarratjuta* Together for Learning: Waltja and WAVE women learning and talking up about training" (*Pintupi-Luritja language, meaning 'adult women and young women').
This design of this application is intended to meet both the focus and the specified outcomes for the 2008-9 WLDP Grants in a double manner, that is, through mutual engagement and mentoring, to strengthen the capacity of both WAVE as a national women’s NGO and that of Waltja to ‘represent, advocate and improve service delivery’ – to the diversity of Australian women and especially Aboriginal women living in remote communities in Central Australia.
The aim of this collaborative project is to enhance the engagement between WAVE and Aboriginal women in remote communities in Central Australia, a severely marginalised group of Australian women in regard to access and equity within vocational education and training.
Through this project the Aboriginal participants will be supported to:
o Consult within their own communities on training issues and needs, to workshop that information with other Aboriginal women from across the Central Australian region, and to present that information to regional service providers
o Mentor young women from their communities to participate in this consultation and in regional forums, and to gain experience and new skills in multimedia and community development work.
o Identify and/or assist in the development of nationally accredited training relevant to Indigenous women’s leadership and mentoring
o Partner with WAVE in direct advocacy to government about vocational education and training for remote indigenous communities.
The project therefore supports Indigenous women's leadership at several levels: the interpersonal level of mentoring relationship between senior and young women, the community level where participants investigate and map training needs/issues, the regional workshops and sharing of information with other Waltja women leaders, the regional training forums where Indigenous women are able to present their identified issues/needs tolocal service providers and government, and the advocacy to government at the end of this project. At all stages the participants will be supported by WAVE and Waltja project Management Committee members and staff. |
