Abstract:
Western Innovators is a mentorship program run by the Western Catchment Management
Authority (CMA) which aims to support enterprise development and practice change being
implemented by landholders living in the Western Catchment of far west New South Wales.
This program has been established with the intention of providing landholders with a fresh
form of capacity building and support to achieve improved natural resource management.
The program also looks to establish a network of landholders to provide support in
implementing practice change and assist in increasing the social capital of the participating
landholders and in turn the social resilience. This paper will outline the process that the
Western CMA undertook in implementing the program and explore the key elements of the
program design. Discussions with mentees will also be used to form examples of the
enterprise change and development being undertaken as a result of the program.
Australian Rangeland Society
17th Biennial Conference
Kununurra, Western Australia
23 - 27 September 2012
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