Regional Landcare Partnerships Core
Delivering Regional Landcare Partnership Services to achieve environmental and agricultural outcomes.
Natural resource management planning and prioritisation of management actions.The core services include natural resource management planning and prioritisation of actions, supporting Landcare, Indigenous communities, and industry to participate in the delivery of projects, coordinating the delivery of projects, monitoring and reporting, and more.
Healthy Land & Water is responsible for the delivery of the Regional Land Partnerships (RLP) component of the National Landcare Program in South East Queensland.
Starting back in 2018, the program, focused on national priorities, is carried out over five years and is made up of three main components.
The Core component is a set of Core Services aiming to achieve specific Environmental and Agricultural outcomes. Those services include natural resource management planning and prioritisation of actions, supporting Landcare, Indigenous communities, and industry to participate in the delivery of projects, coordinating the delivery of projects, monitoring and reporting, and more.
The program focuses on:
- Planning and prioritising natural resource management.
- Support the community in projects delivery.
- Coordinate projects’ delivery, monitoring, and reporting.
- Undertaking Regional Landcare Facilitator (RALF) services.
- Designing and proposing projects.
What we are doing
Providing designated Regional Agricultural Facilitators as a central contact point for farmers, industry, and Community Groups to support agricultural services.
Healthy Land & Water has been delivering Core Services for the SEQ Management Unit under the RLP Program.
The Core Services are the overarching or the RLP and include multiple projects all driven to deliver environmental outcomes on different levels to achieve environmental outcomes.
Measuring success
As a result of the program, the following will be achieved:
- Natural resource management planning and prioritisation of management actions.
- Supporting the Community, including Landcare, Indigenous communities, and industry to participate in the delivery of Projects.
- Undertaking regular public communication of organisational and project progress and performance and undertaking communication with the Department.
- Coordination of Projects’ delivery.
- Monitoring and reporting.
- Providing designated Regional Agriculture Landcare Facilitators (RALFs) as a central contact point for farmers, industry, and Community groups to support agriculture services.
- Development of detailed Project Designs and/or high-level Project Proposals.
Why this project is important
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In August 2018, Healthy Land & Water was contracted as the deliverer for the South East Queensland (SEQ) Management Unit under the Regional Land Partnerships (RLP) component of the National Landcare Program’s second phase. The Regional Land Partnerships (RLP) Program is a core component of the Government's $1 billion investment under Phase 2 of its National Landcare Program. Projects delivered under the RLP focus on recovering vulnerable ecological communities, protecting threatened species, and reducing threats to our globally significant wetlands. Additionally, the RLP includes sustainable agricultural projects to improve soil quality, assist farmers in adapting to climate change, and respond to evolving market demands. |
Project snapshot
What's next
There is huge potential to build on the successful work.
Project collaborators
This five-year program is part of the 1 billion investment across the nation from the Australian Government’s National Landcare Program, to deliver environmental and agricultural outcomes.
The projects are being delivered alongside amazing partners including private landowners, land managers, local Landcare groups, and Traditional Owners.
