Before we proceed any further, I like to acknowledge the traditional owners on the land where we are beaming in from. In particular I like to acknowledge our elders past and present and emerging and I'm talking from Wajak Nunganah Buja which is based in Perth. Firstly I would like to hand over to Sharon and Donna who's the co-presenters to introduce themselves and Lee who will be gathering questions and comments and who will be facilitating a short Q&A at the end of the presentation. So welcome aboard and over to you Sharon. Hi everyone, thanks for joining. I'm Sharon, I'm a non-indigenous working, a non-indigenous woman and it's my great pleasure to work in a First Nations organisation and alongside colleagues like Doyin and our First Nations Research and Evaluation Fellow Donna. I'm living and working on Ngunnawal in the Nambri country and I pay my respects to elders past, present and emerging. Over to you Donna. Thank you, thanks Sharon and Doyin. My name is Donna Stevens. I'm a Moran woman from the northwest of Arnhem land. My language group is Iwaja. I'm actually on Arndaland today and pay my respects to elders past, present and emerging and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and other First Nations people who are joining our meeting today. Thank you so much for being with us. Leah, did you want to jump in? Yeah, I will. Hi, my name's Leah Gage. I'm a senior researcher for Community First Development. I'm really happy to be here and it's so good to see so many faces. I'm a Pahlua woman from Tasmania and as Doyin said, I'll be relating the Q&A at the end of our session today. Thanks Leah and I'll just a quick shout out to everyone if you're not presenting, if you wouldn't mind turning your mics off. Doyin, I'll just bring up the slides for you. Okay, before we get into the research with the 11 communities that we work with, some of you may be familiar with Community First Development and some may be new to the organisation. I'll provide a quick overview before we dive into the research and practice and findings of our recent pedestrian action research project. Community First Development, as people know, we're a First Nations national community development research organisation and our vision is to see First Nations people and communities thrive and that's very important. We promote skills, talents and culture strength of our people and facilitate activities that lead to positive change for our communities and the approach that we take, we actively listen and we share our learnings. We also take the time to understand the community's challenges and vision and build on local strength knowledge and resources and work with communities to match school volunteers to the activities designed and driven by communities. We also acknowledge that we work at the community's pace when we develop in these projects so that's very important. We don't just go on with our own agenda, we work at the community's pace and that's very, very important when you're working in the community development space and research area and from the very beginning we embed with the community the monitoring and evaluation of our activities with the communities with volunteer input and participation. You can move over to the next slide. Okay, now this is the model that we work to, it's our community development framework, it's very important. We've only just released it on our website last week and we're we're going to talk further on another webinar about our framework and how it all works so this is the key to our success and how we work with communities. So it is a practical well documented approach that has potential to apply to a range of co-designing collaborative settings with First Nations people. We invest a lot of time in the first two stages and building understanding. It's very important to build the understanding and the key thing is relationships. Relationships are very important. We just don't jump in and start building. A lot of ground work is laid out first before we start working with communities and that key fundamental is is is developing those relationships and building that trust. When we work this way over time we are building trust and that's key trust and building relationship with community members is very important. This is critical to the way that we work and if we work with First Nations people it's a key fundamental. It's building that trust and relationship with communities but also understanding understanding what the community needs are. So here are a couple of quotes have taken from our research report where the community has explained to you how we work and partner with them on community development activities. The next section we've got a short video of our team and community members we have worked with and talking about our approach and ensuring that self-determinations at the core of the business that we work with in the way that we engage and work with communities. Everything we do is based on people's self-determination. It really is it's about being able to be decision makers for your own life. One of the reasons why I work with community first development is to get back what we lost over time to get our self-determination our pride our thoughts and to be first people as we were 200 years ago. I think it's like that they understand self-determination that their specialist professionals have had a lot of training in culture and how to work with Aboriginal community members that they don't actually dominate the conversation that they let us tell them what we need and they come along for the ride so they bring their expertise into it but they very much let us determine how a project should go. I think there's an expectation or an idea of what it is to be an Aboriginal person and we're very self-determining and we want people to know our individual stories and I think you just have to go in with an open mind and just to listen. The organisation that we have community first development understands what's needed and we don't impose anything so they don't feel like they're doing things to people and they understand the values of the organisation it really is about nothing about us without us you know it really has to be driven from community. Okay self-determination is very important and and and how we work with communities it's that the forefront of how we work. We're a national organisation and our community development team members are based in six locations over the past 20 years we engaged with over 800 communities and completed 5 000 community development projects. In 2019 to 20 we engaged with 159 communities across Australia on 209 community development activities so it keeps our work keeps us pretty busy and there's a high demand out there in the communities in the work that we do. And part of our and as part of our monitoring and evaluation journey as a not-for-profit we have an ongoing focus to strengthen our monitoring and evaluation capabilities. We kick off with a monitoring and evaluation and learning review in 2014 to 2017 and more recently we focus our learning through this three-year pedestrian action learning project with 11 communities. We'll be sharing what we learned in this research project about governance throughout this presentation. So just just to talk a little bit more about community first development we were actually a learning organisation so the key fundamental is that we learn as we go to improve how we work with communities and to catch the information how we work with communities and the data and information. The next slide is about our story of change. The story of change is the theory we work to so in our theory of change governance is one of the building blocks in the poor communities to be able to achieve that long-term future dreams. So the research project tested this theory to learn more about the different forms of governance and governance practice. We dramatically changed the story of change as part of a research project and it was originally a linear approach a more traditional formal project logic. Our team challenged this approach and as it did not show the interconnected nature of how we work and so we redesigned our approach so it's more organic like an ecosystem. Nothing's ever in a straight line we found and there's something that challenged us over the over the last three to four years and this is this is our story of change. The next I will hand you over to Sharon to talk further about the activities that we're going to be talking in this seminar. Thanks, Doyen. It was good fun redesigning this story of change. It was really something else. Hopefully we get a chance to talk a bit more about that at the end when we're taking a few more questions but do keep firing your questions off. As we move through I think they are sitting there ready to collate them all and we're hoping to have a bit of time to talk again and I think Donna's got a few reflection points throughout the presentation as well where you can engage with us because I know we often feel like we're just sitting here talking at a screen all day or particularly in a webinar just to be listening but yeah there is an opportunity to engage throughout if I keep the questions coming. So picking up where Doyen left off from about governance this is a snapshot of the types of projects communities have been requesting over the past years the past five years four years as you can see there's been a growing interest in projects that lead to stronger governance. This is one of the reasons that we decided to focus the recent research project on gaining a better understanding of governance with 11 of the communities we were partnering with. When we started the research project all of the 11 communities had an existing relationship with us so we were already working with them on community development projects at the time the research project started. So the communities are spread across urban regional and remote locations and we've been partnering we had been partnering with half of the communities for three years or more at the time the research project started. We were really stoked when 11 communities wanted to partner with us on this research we didn't even know when we started if there would be an interest or an appetite for this work but there was. After phase one one of the big discoveries was yes there's common knowledge that there are two forms of governance in operation in the communities but there was confusion around the term governance. For us this would felt like a bit of a what we call a fail forward moment. We felt that some of the methods we'd used had really stifled the conversation that we were having with communities and as a result we'd not learnt much about the First Nations governance systems in the communities and the discussion around western governance had really dominated the conversation. In phase one we'd jointly completed a written matrix with communities on governance and we'd also taken a formal approach to our research using a semi-structured interview. So we mixed things up for phase two after our fail forward we adapted and we applied what we'd learnt so this involved returning to what we were more familiar with here at community first development and that was organic and rich conversations. We framed this by creating a yarning tool which had some visual prompts and questions and the questions also had short explanations on what each question was about or what it was getting at. This yielded much richer conversations particularly using the visual prompts were really helpful. We also tried different approaches to court co-authoring case studies throughout the project. Towards the end of the project we think we had a more engaging way of interacting with communities using prompt questions and informal conversations together with staff where appropriate. This is something we're still learning about but it really was through a research yarning approach that we really started to unearth some of the challenges that occur in that interacting space between First Nations and Western Governance and I think Donna is going to talk a little bit more about that now. Oh your mute's on. There we go thanks thanks Sharon and Doyin. So as Sharon and Doyin suggested the community first development staff were exploring governance with organizations and there were different ways the term governance was framed by organizations and the people working in them. It was a really layered space that organizations were working in and in particular how governance was discussed and I guess one illustration which is up on the screen at the moment of why or how this occurs can be taken from the work completed by Aboriginal researchers at Yundamu together with Dr Lisa Watts in 2017 and this work was a part of a whole of community research on education pathways and as a part of looking at education pathways they explored some of the roles and responsibilities that people in community had. So Yundamu is a medium-sized remote community in Central Australia with around about 800 to a thousand people at the time of the research in 2017. The community had a strong record of community achievements which is sometimes lost in media. They also had quite a number of community focus boards and organizations around about 14 key different boards and organizations within their community which addressed areas from aged care to education to health and media. So the slide we're looking at here was produced as a part of their work and it shows the network of activities and the boards in the community which was around 16 at the time. In this community 12 to 14 percent of the community people were actually involved in these boards and many of them were on two or more boards and one person was on 17 different boards one being external to the community. The boards themselves varied in size from three to 25 members and while I mentioned that most had at least that most of the people who were on boards were on at least two boards some people around about 19 were on three or more boards and five people were on five or more boards. So out of the 118 people involved none were in leadership or management roles and most were in low-level jobs and most of the board members were actually volunteering their time and were in unpaid positions. So I guess this comes back to as the Walgreens researchers noted in their report the contrast between the board level responsibilities and the employment level is stark but it also I suppose tells us a little bit around Aboriginal communities and the complexity of the term governance and how they engage in governance within their communities. So we're just going to stop there I suppose and just see if there's any questions or reflections so far and I know we've got a few questions there Lee. Okay so one of the questions I mean it's great we're getting quite a few questions and they're really good questions as well like they really get you thinking. Just to go back a little bit could one of the panel please have a bit of a talk about how the story of change was developed I think that's quite important there's a few I think that would be quite interesting just the process or what made the organisation develop that yeah. Yeah I really enjoy this story I'll jump into it and then I'll throw it at you if that's okay because I'll own my fail forward as a non-indigenous person I put together a quite a basic program logic that served a purpose for us to start our I guess monitoring and evaluation structure and you know I got feedback straight away it's not right it's not right and we needed to work with it to structure some things to start with and so it was really really fantastic as part of this research project where we had a little bit of luxury of time to build it into looking at governance so we were looking at governance and originally in the program logic governance was quite if you were looking at inputs outputs outcomes I think governance was down the bottom somewhere wasn't it doing which acknowledged that it was really significant in our model but it still wasn't quite right so that's when I had feedback it needs to be circular it needs to be interconnected and as a non-indigenous person I'll say I struggled with that I was saying what does that mean explain to me what does that mean so we had a lot of yarns around this and really it started by sketching it as a circle and truly it was really funny for me because as soon as I put a circle it just started playing with it everyone jumped in but before that it was like oh what's that what's that ugly thing so look I think fail forward is important because without that we wouldn't have had those discussions I could have just dug my heels in and said look no this is what we're having and then yeah Doyne and then Donna chimed in as well so do you want to pick up from there you two on our ecosystem approach yeah um I'll talk because I I knew it wasn't living here because of the challenges communities face and there was more organic and I think donna come up with the ecosystem design approach and which fitted the purpose because just because a plus b plus c equals d that wasn't necessarily the approach the challenges based in communities could be so much different and it didn't always work out that way and I knew that wasn't I knew that wasn't the case and the circular approach was kind of always been the thinking around well it's more circular and it's more interconnected but the organic the organic and ecosystem was um was um Donna discussed that with Sharon and and that's how we just that's how it was come up with and I'll let Donna talk a little bit more about that um thanks Doyne I think um one of the things that we really talked about and what struck me um about the work that community first development does um is the relationships and um I think we were having a conversation at an AES conference or something around this and it really did come back to the relationships and so that fitted really nicely with um the way that community first development um works because you know as Doyne pointed out before um the relationships and going in and actually building those relationships first um and then the second part it comes from a strengths model because um I guess you know when we're thinking around um how ecosystems work one part um you know if one part isn't working well it does actually affect all the other parts and so I think our conversations really um you know centered around some of that around um when communities are are working when they're thriving those different parts of the community are building on their strengths and and how do we show that in a in a you know two-dimensional model yeah awesome thank you do you guys have time for one more question before we move on or do you just want to move on yeah I think we've got one time for one more okay um I'm sort of there's one question here around um which I think is quite a it's a good question because I know lots of people would be wondering is that when we have um First Nation communities involved and participating in the projects and plus the research one of the questions was is that do they get paid for their expertise but I think it's also important to talk about the relationship with the First Nation communities that community first development has as well if you guys can share about that as you know or how that works that process works and how the engagement happens yeah I think um we're in a position where we go in by invitation from the community so we just don't go in and come in with our own agenda we actually get invited in the community so we're welcome in to support what we do and that makes our work a lot more easier in in a sense of of um the community wants us there it's not we come in and and stamp our foot and say this is the way you do it we're actually invited by the community so the community actually wants us in there so it makes our work a lot easier and and building that relationship and everything it's all part of and trust it's all part of that um next step in in developing activities or projects but I'll let Sharon talk a little bit further uh yeah picking up where Doyle and left off I guess monitoring and evaluation has been important for us for quite some time now and we've really done a lot of investment into monitoring and evaluation so doing the research was was quite new to us and so we went through the IATSES um ethical research committee and um did the process for that and I guess as part of that we were challenged to think about the what are the benefits to community for the research so we we landed back where what Doyle and said you know community development projects is the core the core benefit and their projects that have been requested by communities um so that's the key benefit but then we're also hoping that you know obviously inviting communities to opt in so it was their choice to to be part of the research and in that we're hoping they saw some benefit for them um one of those was the case studies that we were hoping would be able to be used for um say funding applications or partnership development or general communications and marketing um so the short answer is no we didn't um pay communities for their expertise but I would highly recommend that as an approach um in I guess that it is suitable and would be a great thing to do in other contexts but for us using this participatory action research approach it was able to be embedded into a project or program that communities hadn't requested and we hope was was intended to benefit communities and with that community request so that's a long answer for a short for a short response really which is no we didn't um going Donna did you have anything to add to that um well I think we possibly will talk about that in the next couple of slides but um I do think that uh the approach that community first development took um throughout the whole process was actually um a side-by-side model and one of the things that kind of came through from the um from the data was that um in the busyness of of governance of running communities of everyday kind of work that um there isn't always time for people within the organizations to stop and reflect and think around what we're doing and how we're doing it and what impact is that happening what what impact is that having on our organization and on our community and um and I think that you know if if payments can be in many different ways and so the space that community first development created in actually working with those people who wanted to work with them on this project it was an opportunity the payback was that space and time to really reflect and talk about governance for themselves and I think that there was there was probably quite a number of um learnings that happened um through that process um particularly you know going back and writing the case studies and that sort of work that community first development did. Thank you um I think we can move on now that would be awesome.  I guess the next slide um really talks a little bit about some of these insights um that the research findings from the community first development action research project found and you know that as Sharon and Doyne have said early analysis and some of our early underlying assumptions suggested that um the community first development uh partner communities um that uh two-way governance um could be one way to describe the governance in their communities um and you know this is the picture that we've got here this this bridging governance was our early understanding um but in actual fact the the two-way governance required um quite a bit of quite a bit of work and um is there another another bit to that Sharon is there a click on that on this bridging governance one yeah okay lovely um so the two yeah the two-way governance really really required required um navigation um it required navigation of people terms language reporting um both within their communities and with external organization and funders um this early kind of understanding of governance required negotiation of timeframes of outcomes of expectations and people um and it it really came from the necessity it comes from necessity um to achieve the social economic health and community develop outcomes that um all of these communities are wanting and uh what we did was we really unpacked this through um this underlying assumption of bridging governance and in this space communities were doing a lot of the heavy lifting um that two-way governance was really an assumption that needed to be challenged and one that suggested a current different model of working which um Sharon's possibly um and so here are a couple of the uh interviews um snips that we got from some of the community members that actually suggested um you know that this two-way governance model um really needed to be challenged and some of the assumptions around it um needed to be explored and if we just move on to the next one so we kind of went back and proposed a different model of governance one that um looks a little bit more like this um so what was initially thought of as bridging governance the model from community first data suggests that this is a more model a more current um uh illustration there is no bridge into the third and intersecting space only expectations and rules to be negotiated and navigated participating communities in the action research are seeking a more balanced model one that particularly recognises the need for deep listening for adaptation it is place-based and it respects the cultural knowledge and practice um of each of the communities and so we want to move from this model which is kind of where we're at at the moment to one that we call right-way governance so right-way governance provides an opportunities for communities to explore and strengthen community governance and um we did actually put in a research application and unfortunately weren't able to get the funding so that we could really explore this right-way governance a little bit more and um we had three communities who who really wanted to work with us um and unfortunately we we couldn't get the funding it's not that the work is not going to continue though um so what does right-way governance do right-way governance holds accountable um the western governance and that previously assumed bridging governance model and it asks the western governance this uh to listen deeply and to give time to listen deeply it asks for a bottom-up approach built on mutual trust mutual respect and community ownership um it values uh community ownership and within that it values the monitoring and evaluation from community that has community let outcomes and measures of success uh right-way governance understands the role of community ownership and delegated authority and um we will stop again here um just on the next slide to have a have a picture or have an opportunity for you as an audience to think about this process of right-way governance and how it how it might be enacted I suppose within your own research and evaluation models that you work from and if anybody's got any questions you know we're going to have a little moment here to have a chat yeah there's a um there's a couple of questions once actually on the research itself is um would you be able to sort of share a little bit more um you briefly talked around applying for funding for the research would you like can you share a little bit more around the effects of the actual research project and what that looks like and how that happened yes so yeah it took us through quite a journey uh didn't it Doyen so we thought we had a really good idea cooked up and then then we went through the research and ethics committee process and that was a huge learning curve for us as a organization we got some really great feedback I mean we I would call us a values driven organization so the ethics in this organization continued to astound me from the top to the bottom and back again um at every level and so as someone that's I guess working with the community development team to design monitoring and evaluation approaches and all the rest I'm always encountering values and going well but does that align with our values and you know is it by community request is it community driven is it top top down um is it providing the flexibility we need so the research and ethics committee I guess we went into it with a an assumed knowledge oh they should get all that but no we really had to document and evidence how we were doing those things and so that took time and it took patience especially because we were learning along the way so thank you to our access as we the ethics committee as we did our learning with them um and I guess for us as I mentioned one of the things was uh discovering through that process how to think about how the research would benefit communities so um that was really valuable so I would recommend the process I think um it was tricky and that I think in some ways so back to I recommend it I think it is really helpful it was a fantastic process one of the challenges was actually I think we tried to be something we weren't um we found ourselves getting caught caught up in all sort of sorts of technicalities that tripped us up in the first phase um so I think we learned a few things in that about just being true to what we know works in in our model and not letting that I guess stifle the amazing work that our CD team is already doing I don't know Doen did you have anything to add to that um yeah just with the ethics it was yeah I knew it was very challenging um I don't know whether I'm answering this right um it was very challenging and and a little and part of the process of all the way through that we had to learn and adapt our thinking all the way through the research project so we discovered a lot of things which now we we have adapted in our community development practice but also in capturing um and monitoring projects and thinking differently so um and we done that through a lot of uh challenge ourselves through reflective thinking going back rethinking stuff um and even even the just even going back to that story of change you know that that challenged us in how we adapt this model it's about adapting and and improving the way that you do work when you're working with First Nations community don't assume that your way of thinking is the right approach sometimes you got to adapt and and bid in with the current environment when you're working with First Nations community and that's the challenging environment that don't you gave me wrong because there's a lot of barriers impacting on communities we work with even even just um you know we want people to thrive and grow and there's challenges and we've got to think outside the square and be solution focused and and I suppose a part of this research project is that we had to rethink a lot of stuff so I hope that catches what you're talking about um do you have time for one more question or would you like to move it along I look I'm looking ahead at the slides and thinking I don't want Doyne to um miss out on important storytelling time so I think we move along I'm looking at the next slide and getting a bit excited about this story over to you Doyne okay I suppose when you're looking at a pathway to right-wing governments governance is that one of the ways that First Nations organisation bridge into the third space is through a delegated authority and there's a number of reasons for that one of them is precious put on boards and and and people are spread out there's a lot of demands put on community organisation for instance a place like Jigalong they had something like 80 odd agencies going through there through what in just one year only so sometimes to bridge into that third space what a lot of communities do is use a delegated authorities and and a delegated of authorities are individuals that have highly developed schools in brokering partnership sourcing funding and also navigating through that western governance system um they're being delegated authority by the elders or those in authority in the community um to act on their behalf and there's a and it is very important responsibility that comes with this role and it's an expectations undertaken you know you've got to do things the right way and we are calling it this the right way governance the key component of their roles is soliciting and engaging with the wider community and also facilitate and understanding community consensus that's very important and understanding the defined goals and navigating pathways through the western governance to treat us um all while shielding and maintaining the community's cultural values practice and meeting also making cultural obligations um it's the delegated authorities and connect through their community through western governance um through a legal entity or other structures um for here we had um here's a picture of um Thomas Cameron now we've worked with him for seven years to get back uh Littlewell um Littlewell Reserve which is on the border of Eminyu and WA it's a former reserve and many of the former residents um were part of the stolen generation and they were spread out um and the Littlewell working group nominated uh Thomas to become their delegated of authority and part of his role was to not only talk to the community but also operate in that third space and part of that was developing a MOU with the Shire or many you to protect um to protect and put an interpreted trail on the Littlewell reserve it was very emotional time for them for the Littlewell mob um seven years work and part of that seven-year journey though they were awarded the NAIDOC 2009 in Care and For Country Award um it was a very emotional time as but also part of that journey was healing but Thomas lived out of a suitcase traveling many miles to make sure that he was engaging with his own mob and telling and getting their feedback um of what they wanted on the reserve and also as part of that they become the spokesman or delegated authority and not only enough it's um out of the 11 communities who work but this is the only um organization that wasn't a um incorporated body but they were still able to achieve that by um finding other ways or solutions to get back Littlewell so at the moment Littlewell is preserved for future generations um and that's that short story of a delegated authority and importance of them um stepping into the into that third space to to to benefit the broader community to step up to the mark um the next slide I hope I catch that right um the next slide is um is is um this is Devin Kumara um bending over with his son talking to Uncle Colin Peterson and this is a slightly different model they have a council of elders and he was delegated been given a delegated authority by the senior elders in the community and that was to start working towards developing Aboriginal males healing center he too like um Thomas stepped into that third space because of many of their um elders Martin, Yverley, elders um talking with government was um foreign to them and and Devin's role was to step step into that third space but also ensuring that the cultural values of of of what the old people one of the elders one of were incorporated in into that incorporated in their plan and their plan for the future so and doing the things the right way was was really great this is Colin showing um Devin on country um and telling him about the cultural value of the land and looking at stone artifacts and telling these stories and more importantly Devin has a cultural obligation um to those old people to ensure that he does things the right way and right way governance so um anyway um I'll look over to the next slide um we studied our approach and comments from the communities come up with this definition right way governance and practice um right way governance are actions approaches and behavior undertaken to empower people to meet community expectation right way is a familiar term used um across many indigenous communities and implied in different um different situation importantly right way governance are for everyone interacting in or with communities so right way and governance is very important for First Nation people um it's very important that because it's based on trust respect relationship integrity and shared understanding so it's very important um when we work on with First Nations people and that's one of the key findings that we come out of this at this research and um I'll hand you over to Sharon thanks Doyen um so some of the key learnings we thought as we're putting this presentation together are really relevant for us in the evaluation space so when we were working out what to say we thought I will dive straight into methods and approaches and then we thought hang on a second as Doyen rightly pointed out the finding very how do you engage with communities what do we personally know about First Nations governance practices um in particularly in a we're operating in a space where western governance really dominant dominates this is something that we can all learn from hopefully some of the insights communities have shared can have shared can guide and inform our practice so if you're interested in learning a little bit more there's two reports from the project and they're available on our website and we welcome you to have a read but we will now spend some time yarning about the practice learnings so we've picked up some of the questions along the way but we've left a bit of time here at the end not long now because we did take some of the questions throughout um to look at the methodology and the approaches and answer any questions um so we'll move along Leah as you know has been collating questions while we've been talking so over to you Leah with these prompt images up here these are the different things we touched on throughout so if the questions are about this great if they're not happy to field other ones and I know there's a few there so we did talk about this if we were we've had too many questions and we couldn't get to them all we'll endeavour to write up a blog and share it on our website and also as part of the AES blog series over to you Leah okay thanks Sharon I think we will be doing a blog um just so that we can answer some of the questions more in depth and we don't have time for that today but um one of the questions which is um really relevant is around the yarning and research tool is how how did you guys come about using that the yarning and research uh the yarning research tool um if you could share a bit about that and how that worked if there was any fail forwards yeah be good to hear Doen do you want to pick up on that I think um yeah I mean I mean as an organ as community development organisation and as community development practitioner one of the first things that we the yarning has always been a part of our approach how we engage with communities even just when you get out on on on to communities like for instance with Littlewell you know I walk through the long grass with um Thomas Cameron and and and some members of the Littlewell working group to start having a yarn about just walking through the long grass to understand the importance of Littlewell and and like with Devin Kumara with the Abyssal Males Healing Center it was already there it's already embedded you know we just brought it out a lot more and it developed a more um as part of the research a lot more um as part of um what we call you know sitting down and cup of tea like sitting down and yarning in a circle and having a cup of tea and having a yarn and talking about things so we went back to the more organic approach as part of the research and capturing the information and I and importantly we we recorded a lot a lot of these questions on what we found as part of the yarning and cup of tea approaches that will get a lot more richness in the information that was coming out of the data even through the coding and analysis and I think Donna can pick up a little bit on that um what she saw in the riches of the data by just yarning and and uh struct yarning and using different tools or pass it over to you Donna. Ah thanks yeah um I think one of the things that we did and and people have you know uh mentioned this is that um the way that community uh first development work um really kind of um provided a very easy platform to use yarning as a as a tool and um but a couple of the things that we kind of talked about so the in the first interview you know talking about that failing forward approach is that um community first development staff were kind of like I'm a I'm a um you know I'm a um I'm a staff member I'm not a I'm not a researcher kind of was what they were saying I'm not a researcher and I'm not an evaluator and so we did quite a bit of work I think um you know and Nicole Nim ran communities of practice and we were actually able to come in and and talk a lot more about um strengthening practice from the community first development officers and just really um using that strength to say how can we use those conversations that you have to inform the work that that you're doing and so um if we once we once they were kind of feeling a bit comfortable with that um I guess there are a couple of key things that we we talked about and um one of those was that um you know yarning provides a safe and familiar format uh that it is around providing the time uh you know as Doyen said going for walks in the bush and that kind of thing um is not traditionally where where research data is gathered um but it was also about um it was also about uh turning it around and understanding that yarning the the the person who's collecting the data doesn't have the control it's the person who's telling the story who has the control and the person who is um collecting the data their job is just to listen deeply and so um in listening deeply they're not listening for a response that they're wanting to get from the the people that they're talking to but they're listening for connections and they're listening for um you know for these kind of rich narratives so the way that we talked with the team was around how do you build on those responses can you tell me a little bit more about this you know um what do you think that connects to and so the kinds of questions that um the community first development staff started to ask in their you know in their um researching and evaluation um uh just grew richer through the discussions that we had as a team in those communities of practice does that I'm sorry did I thank you um do we have time just for one quick question it won't be a quick question but do we have time for proven out of time I don't think so we're bang on 130 so but we will we will write up a blog everyone I can see there's a lot of questions there so keen to engage with you all so look out for the blog it'll be through the AES blog series and we'll also put something up on our website um and there's actually some blogs sitting up there now already around um the seed to tree that you see up there on the screen story of change some of the case studies are available and of course the reports so we've got you covered there but also Donna and I worked on a project with better evaluation and some and some other amazing first nations women um was a couple of years ago now it feels like ages ago but anyway whenever it was the resources still there so that's another one um that you might like to check out and um a quick read a quick cap of what's next overview what's next for us do I mentioned at the start we've got a webinar launch of our cd framework next week so please do come along you can register at our website um and I think when AES might even be sending out a little um invite to that after this presentation as well so we're not done yet everyone we've got another action research project in the works um as Donna's alluded to we are looking for funding as well for for more opportunities to engage around um our research so if you if you know anyone send them our way but also I've put that little image down there in the base of the um bottom right hand corner we've actually done something had something really exciting happen just in the last few months we've got an amazing bidger man that works in our organization that has Wayne Harvey who's developed a an app in-house to that houses our monitoring and evaluation framework and this has just been moved to the cloud in this year so we're really excited about all of the potential for that for our field team to capture data in real time and also all the reporting capabilities so I'm sure you'll be hearing more from us on that um plenty of opportunities to keep connecting and engaging with you all but thank you so much for coming along um yeah it we're privileged to share an hour in your day


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Hello everybody, welcome back to another Adobe Premiere Pro 2022 tutorial and this one I'm going to show you how to do a clone effect What am I talking about here? Look on the left side here.  Okay, man. Maybe the guy he might have hit the pipe a little harder Maybe he ate the wrong mushrooms. Um, all good. Sometimes you got to vacuum the desert. So be it What have I done though? Well In uh, in honor of him tripping hard balls I've gone ahead and made multiple copies of this person Vacuuming the desert. So these are clones of him and you'll notice that I don't use blend modes. I'm using linked Compositions from after effects. So here's the original shot.  Well, let's start from scratch So I'm going to delete everything and we're going to go step by step all the way through it I'm going to delete all this stuff until we just have the video So here's the video first step drag and drop it into your timeline. Here we go. Excellent You'll see here that area is he's just going ahead and vacuuming the desert now because this is a very intensive CPU and GPU intensive Process I'm just going to reduce this down to two seconds because I'm just going to show you the technique But I don't you don't need me going into like, you know Hours and hours of masking and stuff like that. That's just crazy. So I'm just going to show you how it works So we've got two seconds of him vacuuming the desert the next step I am going to right click on this and I'm just going to nest it. Why not? Okay, and I'm just going to call it nested sequence who cares now Here's where it gets good right click on your on your on the on the footage And we're now going to go into after effects. So when you right click it you can now replace with after effects composition do that Good stuff. Now it loads up after effects and it'll look just like this And here we go. So here we go. We've got it in after effects. And yeah, there he is doing his thing And yeah, there we go. So now let's go ahead and we're going to do what's called rotoscoping And I'm going to do it very very quickly because I'm just going to show you the technique I'm not going to go like super fine tune it. So I'm going to double click on this here And then I'm going to go ahead and well, let me just do that, right? So I'm going to double click on it and then you'll notice here that I'm in the layer panel So once you're in the layer panel, you can now go up here to the top into your Your toolbar and select the roto brush tool or option w now What I'm going to do is I'm going to basically draw over top of this guy with my little green marker And what I want is I just oh, that's I'm out of bounds there. Never mind. I'll zoom in a bit Let's go zoom in and then I'm going to hold down the spacebar key to move it around And what I want is I just want to get him without any of the background So I'm going to hold down the alt or the option key if you're on a mac And I'm just going to draw that there. So I'm just going to get rid of this little piece that I don't want All right, come on Curtis. There we go. Something like that All right, it takes a few seconds because this is a you got to get this right at the beginning And then once you've got this right, then it's green and then it's just open season So there we go. I'm going to go ahead and select this. I'm going to select more of his shoulder here All right, that's looking pretty good. We're getting close And a little snippet there and I know that this is kind of tedious but Hey, this is the work that we're doing here. It's worth it in the end as you can see So I'm not going to bore you with all of this. I'm just going to go really quickly. Oops We hold down the spacebar key And let's see what we got here.  All right, we're getting close guys There we go something like that and Okay, now I'm just going to take this piece out And I'm going to take this piece out And what do we got? I think we're pretty close. I'm going to take this little piece out in between his legs here Even though that won't matter too much I'll take it out just in case so we have a pretty accurate selection. Let's go ahead and take that And now I'm just going to hold the spacebar down and again, this doesn't have to be perfect I just want to show you the technique. Oh, you'll notice here. I missed part of his face. So that's no good So let's get that and here we go one last thing. So there we go. Get rid of this little piece here All right, good enough now the next step is you want to move forward in time And you basically just want to make sure that you've got the right part So I'm moving it forward step by step And you'll see here as I go through it. It's not too bad Maybe I'll add in this part of his shoe here and this little white part of the vacuum Isn't quite the way I would like it Zoom up a bit That looks pretty good. And you want to basically zoom through And just make sure that you've got the right stuff in the shots. This is very tedious, but once you've got it right Yeah, it looks awesome So just assume that the rest of this is correct even though there might be a few issues But I just want to show you how to get on with the technique So I'm going to go to file and then I'm going to go to save once you save this It's now going to round trip back into premier pro and once we're in premier pro We can go ahead and do the final fun stuff. So now let's open premier pro And yes presto, we're going to go here where you'll notice that it's red So that means yeah, it's sort of thinking and it's and it's It's not fully rendered. So there you go. Now you can see that there's no background This is all transparent in the background and that's just him So what am I going to do the first step? I'm going to go ahead and move him up to video track two Which is fine And then I'm going to go ahead and grab the original footage and put it underneath it Because that way we can start making some fun and we'll have the background image or the background video as well So there we go. I'm going to make it the same size. So now we've got the original footage on track one We've got the rotoscope stuff on track two and now I'm just going to double click and now watch There we go. I'm going to move him over there And you'll see here when I run through it that they're both Now rolling and they're doing their thing and if you want multiple copies just hold down the altar the option key Push up and just make duplicates of this. So I'm going to go ahead and okay. I made a duplicate I'm going to click on that duplicate. It's going to take a second here hang on Because this is very very very very Program and processor intensive. So I'm going to go ahead and now let's see if I can move him There we go. I got another copy of him and I'm going to move him Somewhere down here and this is slowing down on my system quite a bit And I have a very heavy-duty system. So this is a brutal monster. So There you go. This is how we create duplicates and if you want to resize them You can always just double click and then just grab the edge and let's move it in and there you go You got a little guy Oops never mind And there you go. That's how you do it. You can make multiple copies of this as you see fit alt option Move it. There you go. You got another one. Click on this guy Move them. You got another one here. Put that guy there. You see what I'm doing guys That's how you make clones inside adobe premier pro and after effects and hopefully that wasn't too long So thanks for watching this tutorial ton more stuff coming up. Stay tuned


And we can even wire these memories together in the funky way, where it becomes stateful. So this here is a flip flop, where basically the D input is stored in the Q output whenever the clock goes to low to high. So here, you can raise the clock, and then after that, you can do whatever you want with D, the Q output will remain what it was when we raised the clock. Yeah, we can go. Okay. Next one. Yeah, so then an FPGA is basically something where you have these blocks and inside these blocks you can put your own Boolean functions that are internally built out from lookup tables that are internally built from these navigates. And then between them, you have these interconnects, and you can configure, so you can configure the content of each box, like what is the Boolean function inside each box, and there's a register inside each box, and you can configure the connections between the boxes. And you can configure, you can route some of those connections to these connectors to the outside world. Okay, so. And so how do you program this? Like what does it look like? Actually, first of all, you don't program this, it's on a computer, right? It's a circuit. So what you're doing is you're designing a circuit that is made up of the lookup tables and the register. And the model of designing the circuit that is most widely used is the so-called register transferred model. So what that means is that we pretend that we have registered the part between which size.  So you have these registers, and then you have a combinational circuit, so you have some functions. So this is just Boolean gates wired together, and then the function is fed the current value of the register and something from the outside world. And then the result of that combination circuit is fed back into the register. And of course, because we want this to be something useful, we also have some fact that we'll get the result of this. Of course, you can put this type either here or here, which means either we can get, you know, the value just as it's computed or just as it comes out of this circuit, or we can get it in the next cycle as it's already stored in the register. Yeah, so this is the model, and so we can build interesting and fun stuff just by choosing the right function and why we're going to be in a fun way. So yeah, then we can go on. So, yeah, this is all the Haskell stuff that doesn't matter for us. Okay, so what is the fun thing to do? What is something that's tangible and gives you immediate feedback and gives you an expectation about a game, right? So an FPG that plays a linear game means that you have a circuit that implies a particular game, so you're not building a computer. You don't have that right software for that. That's not what you're doing here. So instead, what we do is we take, we build the smallest, simplest possible game console. So these are the single button input and some video output, and it has a register containing the state of the game. And then we have some circuit between the logic of the game. So this is some combination of circuits, and then we have the video system. And then one of the output, so the video system has two outputs, the video signal, which will connect to a screen, and the other output is whether this is at the end of the frame. So, you know, because the TV is frame by frame, and in fact, we will make it a bit more constrained and we say that, okay, the only effect that the frame people have is that it enables the register update. So basically game logic runs, like we have to, sorry, doesn't run yet, that's a problem. So game logic is like this fixed circuit. The output is whether the button is present in the current game state, but we only update the game state, find the video hardware tells us that it's the end of the frame. So this way we have a regular time, like regular clock for how the game is set up, which is of course several levels of construction removed from the clock that drives the whole circuit. So what does it mean to generate video? So we want this thing to output the signal that can fly into the monitor, and then we get a game. So CRP, which is the old kind of screen, right? Okay, everyone knows that it can be very stupid, right, before as you do. The way that works is that you have an electron beam that's like standing in the screen, and it goes like a typewriter. So it's in a first line, and then it goes like the second line, third line, and so on. And it does this, and basically when it gets here, it expects to get a signal that tells it to go back to the start of the next line. And when it gets here, it expects the signal to tell it to go back to the first line. So you just give it, you know, trigger here, here, here, and then eventually here. And the screen will make sure, like a circuit inside your TV to make sure that it does the scanning. And in particular, in VGA, which is an all-denominal video standard, that is, this sweet spot that is old enough that it's super easy to understand because it's based on how these old TVs used to work. So it's very widespread. So these days, we get screens filled up and VGA input, and you know, you can order, like, a typewriter, a gadget from AliExpress that you convert in VMA, VGA, and so on. And the other direction is much better. So, yeah, we can go on. So all we need to do is we need to generate the right horizontal and vertical pulse, and there's a, and there's a specification for particular videos. So for example, for our game, we want to produce 640x480 resolution at 60 frames per second, and then we can just look up, you know, the big group of VGA timings that it takes this many microseconds to wait, and actually, if you add those two together, that's how long you have to wait until you have this pulse. The pulse has to be this many microseconds long, that's all. And this looks quite complicated to implement. Like, like, yeah, all these weird, like 1.907 microseconds, how are we going to wait exactly that? So, first of all, what you can see is that, of course, because it's a rectangle, and the vertical thing will happen at the end of the line. So the vertical timings are naturally quantized to the time that it takes to draw a full line, full horizontal row, and, and, yeah. So we did the VJC moves, so it's kind of so called pizza clock, and basically everything is quantized to that. And now, instead of all those weird numbers, we actually get 640, 1696, and 48 pixels. So if you have a timer, a clock that runs at 15.75 megabits, then what we need to generate a very video signal is to count to 656, then count to 96 while we pull the signal low, then count to 48.  And then it has been played, but that doesn't matter first. Okay, so then, I have one more. Yeah, so this gives us a blank screen, right, and now we have a valid signal, you can connect it to the screen, and it will show you a black screen, but it will be a well-formed black screen, like it will, it will change the way it generates it. But first, that's enough. We want to be able to draw on the screen. So how do we draw on the screen? So as the electron beam is scanning the screen, we want to change its color. Now, the color part is a bit, so I said that CRPs are good because they really do explain. Let's forget about color. Let's just pretend that they have a gray scale TV, like the old black and white TVs. The color is just a bit more complicated. So if you have a black and white TV, then you just need to change the intensity of the electron beam as it scans the screen. So our output from our circuit is this horizontal convert of sync signals and also the intensity of the beam at any given moment. So if you want to draw with this, if only we know where the electron beam is scanning at any given moment, then we can just set the intensity to what we want to show at that given point. So if you want to have a fully black screen with a single white dot in the middle, then we just count, we keep time, we count okay, okay, so here, here, here, here, here. So if you want to get to the middle line, you have to keep counting, you keep counting, all of these seconds independent of us in the screen, but we keep time. And now we know, okay, so we're now in the middle line, we keep counting, we keep counting. Now we're in the middle of the middle line. Okay, now set the intensity to high instead of the lowest, which means it's going to be the white test. And so we take these counters that already used to generate the right sync signals, and we expose those counter to the rest of the circuit. Yeah, you can go. Yep. Okay, and then we can write some fun in the week. So, I was basically asked to talk about flash, which is a cast of refugee that has to be strange that like a 15 minutes hot. So what is the game that is simply not, but we can actually build it from scratch in flash has to in that much time. The bird is actually very, very simple game except for the bird is fair because like growing the bird is very tricky. So, so what's it going to look like so. Hang on. So okay so what we want to do right is we have three missing two missing pieces right, we have the game logic so we have this combination of certain that is fed the old state and the buttons and button press and then we have the one that takes my coordinate of the electron beam on the TV, or the screen, and then give us the color or the intensity. So now I'm switching back to color but color is three, because if a color is three black and white. And each one has like a foil, a color foil on it, right, they're just matched together. That's the complicated. And so, yeah, so we're going to make a very crappy very much like a bird so I don't like it like crappy bird because, and this is the bird and then the whole game is fully in the sense that the, that the pattern of the pipes is not random and it's just going to keep scrolling the same, but that's because you know, it's not a lot to do anything more complicated. And then when the game already just flashing the red background. Okay, so. Okay, and. So, so, so the game logic is my simple. How do we draw this. So remember we have from the video system you have the X and Y coordinate of the current. It's a long that being drawn just now. So, basically, if I want to put the bird somewhere, all I need to do is to make a circuit that compares the X and Y coordinate of the current we've grown pixel to the X and Y coordinate of the bird. And we know where the bird is because the game state has the high, the bird, like if you think about the perfect bird right state is, where are you vertically or something. Right vertically, you know, keep falling unless you press the button because then it's going out. So, so, so you just compare. Yeah, if X, like, or that is here, then you say, if X, like, or it is here, you say, and same way for the pipes, if the Y coordinate is below the high of the pipe, which you are, the pipes, of course, are also needed for the game logic, because that's how you know whether you died or not. So that's, that being here and then you can try to find that in green or blue. And then if it's the end of the game, instead of blue, you do red. So, okay, so but this looks even prettier than what I think the perfect word to look like turns out that you can make a very simple improvement, which actually doesn't really, you can't really see it on the project version, but you can see because what I do here is that the X coordinate after, you know, like division by 16, or whatever, yeah, nobody's the color is not the resolution that you see. So, but what happens is that yeah, we were white and then we have like a lighter or sorry black and then lighter green and then darker green based on the remainder of dividing X for that by 16. So it gives us, which I'm, yeah, you can't see it too, but I promise you, just to get it on the screen, then, yeah, using this nice, Super Mario line, JD, 3D effect of five. And of course, to get the new verse 16, it's crazy because you get the last four bits of the X coordinate, so you don't really need any complicated division and circle. Okay, so I guess I don't have a live demo. Can we open the YouTube video. Yeah, on the test. So here this is, yeah. So this is that this is an activity in that word that's completely working up for this project, by the way. And then. Yeah, yeah, and then you can't see anything like a resolution is going by a zoo, but but at least you can see something. You can see the community. So, so yeah, so it's a, so the end result of just to summarize is that every small circuit is really simple because all it is like two counters, you know, one of them is the horizontal counter and then it feeds into the vertical counter. And I mentioned a counter, then a bunch of comparisons to compare the output of the counter with some x like ordinates of the bird and be the pipes. And that's it.  All the buttons to go out to ease the button to start. And that's it. You know, that can be answered in a smaller timeframe. What did you do. Oh, so actually, so it's not going to bunch of FG board to run on anything as long as so good to the way trash works and it's very long, which is one of the industry standard. So, or HDL so so you can synthesize anything as far as the IO, the only IO you need is video output and the single button. So, the, in this video I'm using the next three states that are completely over a field, and the video one is a good one because it's like so ancient and so so small, but I have a like that. The one that had the open source chain, you know what I, I see ice party. Yeah, so that means has some guests and so I have now with them work for that as well but I haven't infected yet. So, I think that would be a very nice work for this because it has an open source chain. So, like, why did you do it on the game. Why did I, but the whole point of this was to originally was to give a demonstration of flash is something that is simple enough that it can be fully realized. Okay, so like, if you're asking like, if you want to play, that's important. And, you know, you don't have an icon that's going to work. There are simpler ways to get to the point where you can play it when building an FPGA. I give you guys right, but this is the other way around this is more like, Oh, what is a fun thing you can. I can build an FPGA that is simple enough that it can be done in a day and explain in an hour and that's something that's recognizable. Yeah, this is not just a random circuit. You really can't all this is perfect for like, even if I didn't tell you that right if you just saw the yellow thing going with the green thing, you would have said, Oh, that's. No, so I didn't implement even that. It really is a crappy bird. It's not that bird. So this is completely like hard wire. So if I can see here, I think you can see better than in the video. It could be random. I wouldn't take much right, but it would have taken like, let's say 10 minutes of time. So yeah, and there are lots of things you can do that could be about this. And of course there's no good reason that the playfield should be the exact way from the screen so there's no good reason that anything that moves out here immediately comes back. You could have something longer. This is all everything is simplified to just make certain description. So I have often for my entire life. Maybe one hour max of experience. So, why would you go to write this project in a store and then and then custom quality. So I assume we weren't here at the previous time. Okay, so if you can actually do like this size is pretty fun. Yeah, so basically I won't go into your question. So basically, all the sense of very long and the other two mainstream part of it. The ones that are used by all the vendor tools and so on and flash compiles to very lots of it can be packed to these days. And very long and they are not used languages. If you come to it from a point of view of like a summer, someone who works with languages, and not an electrical engineer. I mean, you love it because they don't necessarily know better. The same way that I don't like, you know, the same way that I have no idea like what the power is actually where it certainly is right because I don't care. Yeah, same way. There are aspects of language design that could actually help you and make you more productive and give you more tools of attraction. So for example, I really like how using Haskell, I can write these reusable components. So this of course is itself a thing because I don't want to make it. But if I were doing it for real, I would, for example, use a reusable video signal director, where the type of it ensures that if I use Haskell, I can't use it from the wrong block. And also the type of it, you know, telling me that it's going to be 640 by 80. So that's what the next four minutes are going to be and I can't accidentally try to do anything with it. Right. So, so you have all these typing constraints that that you can use those on your stuff and the. Okay, then for example, in the, in the Intel AT-ATC that's written in Haskell, the microcode is set to be at compile and by time checking the microcode, we can ensure that there's no situation where you want to read and write at the same cycle from some memory address because there's a machine that we are re-explanating, which is, some people are too long to read and single-port read. So in any cycle, you can either write to it or read from it. And that's something that we can ensure that the microcode has this invariant at synthesis time, which is Haskell. That sounds very nice. It sounds very nice. But I can tell you, it's under any more committee. So look at my slides after this when you have time and look at the actual code that we have to write. The actual Haskell that we have to write to get where it's going. And then you will see it's very high-level, simple. It doesn't exactly what you want it to do without having to worry about one of the things that we don't want to worry about. So like, for example, we just, so to make it to counter, right, we just write the polymorphic function that accounts to anything and then we just instantiate that twice because that's for countered. And then by saying that the VJ signal generator needs you a 640 by 48 visible coordinates. Yeah, that time itself can drive the, so we have to write the comparator that we, for example, compare the counter to 640 to see if it's in the first half that invisible or the second half where you need like the same figures that get that's proven by the times. So there's lots of like neat things that you actually need to be aside, but I don't have time. And then yeah, this is not the only way to sell on flash and Haskell. So that's why I said, you know, I'm going to just talk about that.


The only place that safeguards have been established within the UNFCCC are in the context of REDD Plus. So the establishment of safeguards attached to REDD Plus is quite an advancement in terms of the climate negotiations to begin with. Different people break the safeguards out into different categories. I tend to view them in three categories. So social safeguards, environmental safeguards and governance safeguards. There are seven REDD Plus safeguards. There's a safeguard concerning full and effective participation of stakeholders including Indigenous peoples and local communities. There's a safeguard concerning conservation of biodiversity. There's a safeguard against conversion from forests to plantations, for example. There are safeguards concerning improvements of monitoring systems. So they're broken out into seven categories. Now the discussion at the moment within the UNFCCC is focused on the monitoring and reporting, or perhaps some again. Different people view these things differently, but essentially it's about the way in which the safeguards are monitored and reported on. So in order for there to be a system in place for the implementation of the safeguards to be monitored and reported on, there was an agreement reached in Cancun which established what's known as the Safeguards Information System. Now there was some guidance put in place which is quite broad concerning the Safeguards Information System. And so there's going to be consideration at the conference in Lima as to whether or not that guidance is adequate, whether or not over the past few years, while countries have had an opportunity to work with the guidance as it currently exists, whether or not there's a need for additional guidance. And so there's a discussion that's happening in that context and so there's a submissions process throughout September and then there'll be some discussion at the next conference specifically on safeguards and whether or not there should be additional guidance and what type of information should be provided in the context of the Safeguards Information System. My guess is that Red Plus will be a mechanism in the new climate agreement. So a good comparison there or a bad comparison may be the clean development mechanism. So that's a mechanism that exists under the convention in the context of implementation. So my guess is that there is a high possibility that there will be a Red Plus mechanism and the new climate agreement will in effect bring in all of the agreements and sort of the framework that exists, not word for word but there'll be I guess a way of wording it in treaty language which will bring the Red Plus framework perhaps by making reference to the Warsaw framework for example that will bring Red Plus into the new climate agreement as a means of implementation and as a specific mechanism. In terms of financing Red Plus, I think that there has been an overemphasis in the discourse on the necessity for markets to be providing finance to Red Plus. When you look at the numbers and 30, 40 billion per year expected to be required to finance Red Plus when you look at that in comparison to international finance, international public finance going to other things it's not very much money and so it's not so much a question as to whether or not it's possible for public finance to be allocated towards the forest sector and reducing emissions from the forest sector. We call it Red Plus, call it whatever you like. We're talking about reducing emissions from the forest sector with the additional non-carbon, so livelihood, tenure, with all of the other components that come along with it. So when you're talking about whether or not public money exists for this, I think the answer is that it does. The question is why is it not prioritised and allocated to this by the governments or by the countries who have the capacity to be allocating or prioritising their public money to be going to saving forests effectively and reducing emissions from the forest sector. So that's something that I find a bit frustrating in the discourse concerning Red Plus is this overemphasis on markets and I think that it's been counterproductive in that it's created a lot of fear within communities on the ground that Red Plus is going to result in and it may well result in a markets focused process that has the potential to be detrimental to communities.


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