BUILDING SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES

Priority Issues:
The following have been identified as processes that threaten the building of sustainable communities:

• Community burnout
• Low levels of understanding
• Resourcing limitations
• Ineffective policy and legislative frameworks, planning and coordination
• Lack of monitoring and evaluation.
  

To adequately tackle capacity building in the Region there are two issues that need to be simultaneously addressed. The first involves a range of actions to engage the community and business in NRM activities and to support them in undertaking NRM action, while the second involves investing in NRM leadership and overcoming institutional and regulatory frameworks that restrict NRM action. In conjunction with these two issues is the role of communications in conveying the NRM message to engage stakeholders and the wider community.