Wunambal Gaambera

The Wunambal Gaambera people have worked collaboratively with researchers to develop the Uunguu Monitoring and Evaluation Committee (UMEC). The aim of UMEC is the monitor and evaluate the Wunambal Gaambera’s Healthy Country Plan (HCP). Wunambal Gaambera people developed the HCP to help keep Country and culture healthy for future generations. As Wunambal Gaambera explain:

“Embedded in the plan, and part of the healthy Country work, was the commitment to ongoing review and a mid-term evaluation to enable adaptive management through the assessment of the effectiveness of the HCP’s strategies … Other motives for evaluation were to appraise the need for adaptation due to any major shifts in context (for example, fluctuations in financing, changes in government policy and new threats to values), contribute to the evidence base concerning Wunambal Gaambera Country and report on achievements to both traditional owners and external stakeholders.”