Governance reference manual

Home
- Home
- About the Toolkit
- How to use this Toolkit
- Toolkit sections overview
Understand Indigenous governance
- Overview
- Defining governance
- Indigenous governance
- Governance lingo
- Self-determination and governance
- Effective Indigenous governance
Your culture
- Overview
- Centre your culture
- Culture-smart governance
Assess your governance
- Overview
- When to assess your governance
- Know your people
- Learn from history
- Assess your purpose and vision
- Recognise your internal culture
- Map your assets
- Monitor your wider environment
- Plan for the future
Build your governance
- Overview
- How to get started
- Choose your governance model
- Decide whether to incorporate
- Develop your rules or constitution
Your people
- Overview
- Your key players
- Members
- Board of directors
- CEO and managers
- Staff
- Relationships
- Diversity, equity and inclusion
- First Nations women in governance
Leadership
- Overview
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leadership
- Leadership styles
- Challenges of leadership
- Develop your leadership
- Succession planning
- Evaluate your leadership
Systems and plans
- Overview
- Policies and procedures
- Communication
- Meetings
- Decision-making
- Financial management
- Strategic planning
- Risk management
Conflict resolution and peacemaking
- Overview
- Understand conflicts, disputes and complaints
- Understand peacemaking
- Implement peacemaking processes
Self-determination
- Overview
- Self-determination for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
- Nation building, treaty and development
- Nation building in practice
Monitoring and evaluation
- Overview
- Introduction to monitoring and evaluation
- Why monitor and evaluate
- Phases of evaluation
- Approaches to Indigenous M&E
- Working with external evaluators
Governance Stories
Glossary
AIGI Publications
Other Resources
Useful Links
Factsheets
Animated Videos
Podcasts
Acknowledgements

Systems and Plans

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A simple list of contents for a governance manual is provided below. It will give you some ideas of the kinds of policy areas to include in your governance manual (pdf, 1011KB).

Governance-Reference-Manual-3.pdf