People Development Program: Building seafood industry representational capacity

Funded Activity Summary

The major need this project will aim to address is to build and enhance seafood industry representational capacity at the local and regional level. To achieve this, the project will meet the following specific needs for:

• novel ways to address barriers to the uptake of representative roles
• an entry through to intermediate-level training program which is a precursor to leadership training, and therefore contributes to a structured leadership training pathway
• training opportunities to upskill industry and non-industry representatives in areas of fisheries management principles, governance and decision-making processes, and basic representational skills, which use effective training delivery mechanisms and are supported by viable funding models

The needs this project targets are drawn directly from needs articulated in the background section of this proposal and in the following two reports.

Firstly, the FRDC’s People Development Program Plan 2008-2013has identified that there is “an urgent need to develop people within all sectors who have the skills to effectively contribute to debate and policy development for significant challenges confronting industry”. One of the objectives of the Program is therefore to “build industry capacity to drive change to achieve goals”.

To achieve this objective, the Program has recognized the following needs:
• strengthen governance and representational capabilities of industry organisations
• increase the capacity of industry organisations to represent the views of members
• enhance industry’s ability to contribute to debate and policy development
• build industry committee member competence and confidence

Secondly, the FRDC TRF Final Report ‘Understanding the Drivers of Fisher Engagement in Industry Bodies’ (Project 2009/335) has identified the need for the following:
• governance training program for fishing industry associations;
• industry associations to focus on representation as their major role;
• leadership training to be developed for teams of industry, and to be strategically funded.


Objectives:
1. Identification of key knowledge areas and skill sets needed by fisheries resource users (commercial, recreational and indigenous fishers and marine farmers) and managers taking up representative roles at the local and regional level
2. Identification of novel ways to address barriers to the uptake of representative roles at the local and regional level for each sector, including effective training delivery models, viable funding models and other support mechanisms
3. Production of a comprehensive multi-level training tool-kit for the development of representational capacity at the local and regional level which is non-proprietarial
4. Provide the first steps of a structured leadership training pathway by conducting eight pilot training programs in four locations for over eighty members of the Australian seafood industry

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-04-2010

End Date: 28-08-2012

Funding Scheme: Funding Scheme not available

Funding Amount: $209,339.00

Funder: Fisheries Research and Development Corporation

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Other Keywords

Capacity Building | Extension & adoption | Indigenous | Resource Access And Allocation | Wild Catch

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