YMAC Annual Report 2022

Projects
YMAC’s Projects unit brings together a range of capacity support
services for our Prescribed Bodies Corporate (PBC), Aboriginal
corporations and working group clients. These includes heritage
support services, PBC Executive Office, Land and Sea Management
and a range of social, cultural and economic development projects.
Key 2021–2022 outputs included:
• Developing social surroundings
capabilities within the Heritage team,
in conjunction with the Research team.
• Project management of the Plan for
our Parks negotiations.
• Strategic planning services for PBC clients.
• Cultural mapping projects.
• Developing the Land Administration
Governance Framework.
• Building capacity to engage with the
emerging renewable energy space.
• Grant applications, implementation
and acquittal.
• Extensive advocacy, particularly
around State heritage legislation.
Key highlights:
Nanda – Barrel Well Nanda Community
Aboriginal Corporation (BWNCAC)
YMAC worked with BWNCAC to develop
and implement a Connecting to Country
grant. The team undertook an on-Country
camping trip to visit important cultural
sites and engage in inter-generational
knowledge transfer activities.
Ngarlawangga social surroundings
The Projects and Research units delivered
various stages of the Ngarlawangga social
surroundings project, including on-Country
field trips, workshops, meetings and reports.
The aim is to understand the environment’s
social dimensions and how this can be
impacted by developments.
Strategic planning
In the past year, YMAC has worked with
Nganhurra Thanardi Garrbu, Yingarrda,
Nanda, Budina and Malgana Aboriginal
Corporations to design strategic plans that
include their mission, vision and values.
Left: Nanda Country. Picture: José Kalpers