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Aboriginal Landcare Education Program (ALEP)
Greening Australia's Aboriginal Landcare Education Program (ALEP) supports Aboriginal communities across the Top End.
Established in 1994, ALEP recognises the intrinsic link between social and community health and well being, and caring for country, for indigenous communities and culture. The strength of ALEP lies in the broad network it has in Top End remote communities and the trust it has built up with these communities over its fourteen years of operation.
Through working with communities on project development, education and training, planning and supplying linkages and network opportunities ALEP has been able to develop holistic projects that meet communities’ needs and achieve integrated outcomes. ALEP is successful as it employs aboriginal people and works within the Aboriginal world view in partnership with Aboriginal groups.
ALEP Vision
Indigenous land management independently funded and controlled by Aboriginal people with the capacity to make management decisions using both traditional cultural practices and contemporary land management information.
ALEP Mission
ALEP works with Aboriginal communities and people to build their capacity, by working with organisations, to undertake natural and cultural resource management through:
- Two way education and training
- Development of sustainable vegetation related businesses
- Assisting access to resources
Learn more about ALEP by contacting Don Duggan (ALEP Coordinator) via email. Purchase a fantastic Green Cadets – Grinwan Geing learning guide. They are for Certificate 2 level units in the Horticulture and Conservation and Land Management. Go to our Education and Training page.
Project Achievements
Through projects based around the core services described above, ALEP delivers:
- Increased social and community health and wellbeing
- Increased capacity and confidence of communities to undertake land management projects
- A sense of community pride in communities
- Integration of traditional knowledge into mainstream NRM through contributing to the Transforming our Landscapes vision
- Indigenous enterprises developed and increased employment opportunities on country
- Indigenous youth engaged in land management education
- Greater capacity of communities to make the best use of funding opportunities available to them.
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