Victorian First Peoples Affairs Landscape
To support us to deliver on this Strategy, we will incorporate the Victorian Government First Peoples Affairs commitments and policy which recognise the need to invest in practices and initiatives to achieve greater First Peoples employment outcomes across government.
Transport and Planning Portfolio Aboriginal Self Determination Plan 2020-2023
Our Transport and Planning Portfolio Aboriginal Self Determination Plan outlines the Portfolio’s commitment to working in genuine partnership with First Peoples Victorians to maximise benefits from the Victorian Government’s transport investment pipeline towards outcomes for First Peoples communities.
The Plan is the Transport and Planning Portfolio’s Delivery on Self Determination and Reform Framework commitments for Departments to respond to the Victorian Aboriginal Affairs Framework (VAAF).
First Peoples Victorians are critical partners of this Portfolio in managing the planning and delivery of the Victorian Government’s $80 billion transport investment pipeline. This will empower First Peoples Victorians to make decisions about transport issues that matter to them.
People
- Work with First Peoples organisations to build a culturally safe workplace and ensure our workforce has a strong understanding of self determination
- Work with First Peoples staff and community members to develop and implement strategies that attract, recruit and retain First Peoples within the Transport and Planning Portfolio
- Increase the number of First Peoples Victorians on Victorian Government transport boards to embed First Peoples leadership and decision-making across the Transport and Planning Portfolio activities.
Systems
- Ensure transport polices, resources, services and opportunities are culturally safe and accessible to First Peoples Victorians.
- Work with First Peoples stakeholders to design and implement coordinated whole-of-transport approaches to engaging with First Peoples Victorians that enable First Peoples decisions-making, leadership and strategic service provision to be embedded across Transport and Planning Portfolio activities.
- Through the new whole-of-transport and planning model of engagement develop Regional chapters (action plans) at the local level, capturing self-determined activities that leverage the Transport and Planning Portfolio as a whole to deliver on the unique needs and aspirations of Victorian First Peoples communities.
- Extend an invitation to Registered Aboriginal Parties to develop co-designed tailored partnership agreements as a mechanism to support more strategic conversations in relation to delivery of Transport and Planning Portfolio projects and other Traditional Owner priorities.
- Update internal Transport and Planning Portfolio procurement approaches to enable a whole of transport and planning approach to progressing procurement outcomes.
Outcomes
- Trial new pooled, outcomes-based funding models that build the capacity of First Peoples Victorians to lead procurement of services they believe best deliver agreed transport outcomes.
- Ensure Regional chapters and co-designed tailored Registered Aboriginal Party agreements incorporate close links to VAAF goals and outcomes and transport and planning policy and legislative requirement
Accountability
- Establish clear governance arrangement with First Peoples representation to drive delivery and reporting on this plan, including its Regional chapters and co-designed Registered Aboriginal Party agreements
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