Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands Agreements
Regional Partnership and Shared Responsibility Agreements
"Caring for Country" and "Youth Activities"
The partners
- APY Community
- Federal Government
- State Government
- Other private or not for profit organisations
The project
The APY Lands are situated in the Far North West of South Australia and have an average population of 2400 people.
The population is heavily biased towards the younger age groups with infants and children constituting approximately 40% of the population. The Pitjantjatjara Land Rights Act 1981 vests the land in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara(AP) under inalienable freehold title and the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Executive Board is the elected representative authority on the Lands.
The historical and contemporary context within which most Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in South Australia strive to attain and maintain wellbeing has created widespread social disadvantage and poor physical, social, spiritual and emotional needs.
Our project was initiated as a response to the Central Desert Petrol Sniffing Strategy. The aim of the project is to establish Regional Partnership Agreements in the areas of "Caring for Country" and "Youth Activities" and to develop a series of Shared Responsibility Agreements with individual APY communities.
Our Role
We were engaged as independent partnership brokers to assist the potential partners in creating and developing agreements that strengthen and build on existing relationships and partnership arrangements as well as resulting in real and sustainable improvement in communities.
A positive outcome from this project has been the establishment of an APY Sports League for both men and women on the APY Lands.
For more information on Regional Partnership and Shared Responsibility Agreements please refer to the Office of Indigenous Policy Coordination website.
http://www.oipc.gov.au
