Welcome to the web page for our research project entitled:

Maximising the contribution NGOs in a new planning

framework for community services provision

This action research project aims to improve ways to harness non-government community organisations’ knowledge and increase genuine participation in newer planning models, such as the Friedman Results and Performance Accountability Framework. This project will work with a range of community services workers to identify the practice knowledge generated in local community based organisations. It will then explore how this local practice knowledge can be better recognised and enhance participation in the design and delivery of human services to increase the health and wellbeing of our communities.

Aims

 The aims of this research project are therefore:

·         To develop ways of identifying the practice knowledge generated and used in
local non-government organisations.

·        To identify, using critical discourse analysis, the conditions necessary for maximising the knowledge
contributed by non-government organisations to planning processes in order to deliver better services.

·        To test and develop, using participative action research, the Friedman framework’s capability in Australia
to bring forward, value and fully utilise the knowledge of diverse, often marginalised communities and
organisations to enable a more meaningful contribution to human services planning.

This three year research project is a partnership between the Illawarra Forum Inc., the University of Sydney and the University of Western Sydney. It is funded by an Australian Research Council (ARC) Industry Linkage Grant.

You can find out more about the project, our activities, publications and our team by clicking on the menu on the left.