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dc.contributor.author | Prior, Julian C | en |
dc.contributor.author | Lobry De Bruyn, Lisa | en |
dc.contributor.author | Lenehan, Joanne R | en |
local.source.editor | Editor(s): Greg Mills | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-03-14T16:42:00Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | 2011 APEN National Forum Proceedings, p. 141-141 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/12296 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The Catchment Action Plan (CAP) of the Border Rivers-Gwydir Catchment Management Authority (BR-G CMA), like many other regional organisations around Australia, sets community capacity building targets through its Training and Education program (TEP). This program intends to increase the engagement of the community in "translating ideas into actions on-the-ground". We use an analogy to explain how training and education events (TEEs) can be designed to increase the likelihood of achieving behavioural objectives, as well as enable the assessment of both immediate and long-term impacts on landholder behaviour. This analogy is that the organisation, or BR-G CMA, is a 'fabric' composed of warp and weft threads. The warp threads are the programs (e.g. on-ground works, training and education and community engagement) which run vertically, and the weft threads, which run horizontally, are holding the warp threads together and keeping the organisation (fabric) strong. Without weft threads, the organisation (fabric) would unravel or become directionless. Based on our research, involving in-depth analysis of four TEEs with 326 attendees over 28 days, interviews with trainers (n=7), analysis of Training and Events Database (TED) surveys (n=220), and 61 in-depth interviews with attendees of TEEs a year to 18 months after the TEE, we would suggest that there are four strong weft threads. The four weft threads are: contract specifications (obligations of trainer and CMA staff), TED, the trainer, and the Community Support Officer (CSO). These four weft threads must have clearly defined roles, responsibilities and functions to avoid an ad hoc, output-orientated Training and Education Program (TEP) that lacks integration with other CMA programs. Although TEEs were well-received by attendees, there was little documented evidence of change in landholders' behaviour with regard to natural resource management, as a consequence of their TEE participation. A pervasive theme emerging from the research was the need for greater follow-up extension support with landholders after the TEE had concluded. The CMA should influence and invest in the contract, TED, trainer and CSO, and thereby improve their functionality and ability to contribute to improved community capacity-building outcomes. Thus by improving the weft threads it will produce a stronger fabric. | en |
dc.language | en | en |
dc.publisher | NSW Government, Department of Primary Industries | en |
dc.relation.ispartof | 2011 APEN National Forum Proceedings | en |
dc.title | Weaving a Stronger Fabric: designing educational and extension activities for regional NRM organisations that can lead to demonstrable practice change | en |
dc.type | Conference Publication | en |
dc.relation.conference | APEN 2011: Australasian Pacific Extension Network National Forum: Hitting a Moving Target - Sustaining landscapes, livelihoods and lifestyles in a changing world | en |
dc.subject.keywords | Environmental Monitoring | en |
dc.subject.keywords | Sustainable Agricultural Development | en |
dc.subject.keywords | Continuing and Community Education | en |
local.contributor.firstname | Julian C | en |
local.contributor.firstname | Lisa | en |
local.contributor.firstname | Joanne R | en |
local.subject.for2008 | 070108 Sustainable Agricultural Development | en |
local.subject.for2008 | 130101 Continuing and Community Education | en |
local.subject.for2008 | 050206 Environmental Monitoring | en |
local.subject.seo2008 | 960604 Environmental Management Systems | en |
local.subject.seo2008 | 930101 Learner and Learning Achievement | en |
local.profile.school | Office of Faculty of Science, Ag, Business and Law | en |
local.profile.school | School of Environmental and Rural Science | en |
local.profile.school | School of Environmental and Rural Science | en |
local.profile.email | jprior2@une.edu.au | en |
local.profile.email | llobryde@une.edu.au | en |
local.profile.email | jlenehan@une.edu.au | en |
local.output.category | E3 | en |
local.record.place | au | en |
local.record.institution | University of New England | en |
local.identifier.epublicationsrecord | une-20130308-100621 | en |
local.date.conference | 28th - 30th November, 2011 | en |
local.conference.place | Armidale, Australia | en |
local.publisher.place | Australia | en |
local.format.startpage | 141 | en |
local.format.endpage | 141 | en |
local.title.subtitle | designing educational and extension activities for regional NRM organisations that can lead to demonstrable practice change | en |
local.contributor.lastname | Prior | en |
local.contributor.lastname | Lobry De Bruyn | en |
local.contributor.lastname | Lenehan | en |
dc.identifier.staff | une-id:jprior2 | en |
dc.identifier.staff | une-id:llobryde | en |
dc.identifier.staff | une-id:jlenehan | en |
local.profile.orcid | 0000-0003-0173-2863 | en |
local.profile.role | author | en |
local.profile.role | author | en |
local.profile.role | author | en |
local.identifier.unepublicationid | une:12502 | en |
dc.identifier.academiclevel | Academic | en |
dc.identifier.academiclevel | Academic | en |
dc.identifier.academiclevel | Academic | en |
local.title.maintitle | Weaving a Stronger Fabric | en |
local.output.categorydescription | E3 Extract of Scholarly Conference Publication | en |
local.relation.url | http://www.apen.org.au/national-forum | en |
local.conference.details | APEN 2011: Australasian Pacific Extension Network National Forum: Hitting a Moving Target - Sustaining landscapes, livelihoods and lifestyles in a changing world, Armidale, Australia, 28th - 30th November, 2011 | en |
local.search.author | Prior, Julian C | en |
local.search.author | Lobry De Bruyn, Lisa | en |
local.search.author | Lenehan, Joanne R | en |
local.uneassociation | Unknown | en |
local.year.published | 2011 | en |
local.date.start | 2011-11-28 | - |
local.date.end | 2011-11-30 | - |
Appears in Collections: | Conference Publication School of Environmental and Rural Science |
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