Ngurra-kurlu (the way yapa life is governed)

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- 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

Your culture

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers should be aware that this video may contain images and voices of persons who have passed.

Steve Jampijinpa, Warlpiri educator and scholar, explains the five pillars of Warlpiri culture—the land, law, ceremony/performance/dance, language, and families in skin groups—all of which connect together to govern Yapa people’s lives.