Our partners and collaborators

Plan International Australia

PIA and GDAC have been working together since 2018. Last year we signed a 5-Year Teaming Agreement with PIA that provides core funding for purposes associated with our GDAC strategic plan that GDAC and PIA identify as our priority focus each year, as well as mentoring and advice on a range of functions to grow GDAC organisational capacity. GDAC provides advice/support PIA on reconciliation action and cultural competencies. Currently we are using this funding to support our new Mutjuŋ Rangers program.

Arnhem Land Progress Association (ALPA)

GDAC has been sub-contracted by ALPA to provide CDP activities in our Homelands since 2019. We are currently working in partnership on a Trial Pathways to Jobs On-Country program that is providing wage-subsidy, accredited and non-accredited training for up to 12 trainee rangers working with Mutjuŋ Rangers.

ARDS Aboriginal Corporation
Anglicare - NT

GDAC is partnering with ARDS and Anglicare to establish and develop on-country Child and Family centres and services in Gapuwiyak and our Homelands. ARDS and Anglicare are ‘guŋga’yunamirr’ (helpers and mentors) helping us to work closely with local community members to co-design of facilities and services ‘both ways’ and from the ‘ground up’, and to build our organisational capacity to run these.

Gapuwiyak Culture and Arts Aboriginal Corporation

We are working with GCAAC to strengthen local Yolŋu culture and develop cultural tourism opportunities in our Homelands.

Northern Institute

We are partnering with the Northern Institute (Charles Darwin University) and GCAAC on a 3-year research project, ‘Caring for Cosmologies: Making living maps for West Miyarrka’. This project aims to develop a new kind of digital mapping to document endangered forms of knowledge along a coastline under threat from climate change. It will draw on unique Yolŋu knowledge practices and representational systems - with Waṯaŋu Mala’ (Yolŋu traditional owners and managers) guiding digital media experts, rangers and artists.

We are also developing an MOU for a Homelands-based ‘bush university’ in our western Miyarrka Homelands.