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PROJECT NUMBER • 2023-200
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Community Sentiment Survey

Australia’s Commonwealth, state and territory governments together with regulatory bodies and local authorities have worked in partnership with the fishing industry, scientists, economists, environmental non-government organisations to establish management frameworks for fishing in...
ORGANISATION:
Intuitive Solutions
Communities
PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-075
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Aquaculture-Community Futures: North West Tasmania

This report discusses a study conducted by the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies at the University of Tasmania on marine and costal wellbeing and how it can be considered in regional marine and coastal development decision making. The need for this project arose from a desire by selected...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)

FRDC Community Engagement Strategy Evaluation Framework

Project number: 2018-201
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $89,891.00
Principal Investigator: Victoria Pilbeam
Organisation: Clear Horizon
Project start/end date: 14 May 2019 - 31 Oct 2019
Contact:
FRDC

Need

The objective for this project is to design and pilot an M&E framework and toolkit for fisheries and aquaculture community engagement. The M&E Framework support a more systematic approach to industry evaluation and generate useful information to support industry decision-making by clearly articulating priority outcomes. While the evaluation toolkit will provide industry organisations with practical resources for planning, conducting and learning from the evaluation of community engagement processes

Objectives

1. Design and pilot an M&E framework and toolkit for fisheries and aquaculture community engagement
2. The M&E Framework will support a more systematic approach to industry evaluation and generate useful information to support industry decision-making by clearly articulating priority outcomes.
3. The M&E toolkit will provide industry organisations with practical resources for planning, conducting and learning from the evaluation of community engagement processes.

Final report

Author: Clear Horizon
Final Report • 2020-12-01 • 3.30 MB
2018-201-DLD.pdf

Summary

This report outlines the process and outcomes of the Community Engagement Monitoring & Evaluation Framework and Toolkit project that the FRDC contracted Clear Horizon Consulting to complete.

Our Pledge: Australian seafood industry response to community values and expectations

Project number: 2017-242
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $153,484.97
Principal Investigator: Jane D. Lovell
Organisation: Seafood Industry Australia (SIA)
Project start/end date: 14 Aug 2018 - 30 Jul 2019
Contact:
FRDC

Need

Despite considerable investment in RD&E to understand why the Australian seafood industry has been experiencing diminished levels of socio-political and community acceptability, there is still uncertainty regarding the significant values of different segments of the Australian community for coastal and marine systems, their management and industry (Essence Communications 2015). Further, there is evidence these values and associated expectations are highly changeable and can have significant individual, business and national repercussions. While the seafood industry already operates from a strong values-based position of its own - ‘sustainability’, there is evidence the community's concerns have expanded to include animal welfare, supply chain integrity, modern slavery for example.

Understanding community values and expectations is important but not enough. Industry must articulate and demonstrate its commitments to addressing kncommunity expectations. This is critical to breaking the reactive negative cycle that threatens resource access, mental health and viability of our industry. A means of monitoring and tracking industry's success in responding to the community's changing expectations and values must also be developed.

Seafood Industry Australia's (SIA) members have identified social licence. This project is a tangible commitment to a national conversation and action to address community values. It is an opportunity to build seafood industry unity on the basis of a set of shared values and supporting practices.

Australian Council of Prawn Fisheries (ACPF) has initiated a lot of this listening and values-related work relevant to wild catch prawns. ACPF is ready to design, implement and evaluate activities that embed these values as messages and convey the supporting or changing behaviours as proof. ACPF needs to ensure that its outputs reflect the direction of the Australia seafood industry and sees advantages in liaising with SIA as it produces outputs at sector level. In doing so, it will provide a test case for how other seafood industry sectors can undertake to acknowledge and respond to community values and expectations, and make a national set of shared industry-community values their own.

Objectives

1. Identify values of major segments of the Australian community for fisheries resources and seafood industries, and expectations of industry behaviours that support those values
2. Identify values of the Australian seafood industry that are common across the industry at national and sector/regional scales
3. Establish industry response to community values and expectations, including measurable benchmarks of industry behaviours and performance that demonstrate commitment
4. Demonstrate and evaluate the effectiveness of a community engagement and communication strategy that is built on recognised shared values and committment to supporting industry behaviours (Extension proof of concept – Prawns)
5. Increase capacity of industry's current and emerging leaders to engage in values-and-behaviours conversations with community leaders on an ongoing basis

Report

Author: Futureye
Report • 2020-09-07 • 1.02 MB
2017-242_Review of Community Attitudes.pdf

Summary

Seafood Industry Australia commissioned Futureye to review existing research into the Australian communities attitudes toward seafood, as well as other market research, that has been undertaken since 2014. The findings from this review were used to make recommendations to Seafood Industry Australia about what to address in their pledge to demonstrate the industry’s intent to earn its ‘social licence to operate.’

Project products

Report • 2020-09-07 • 354.06 KB
2017-242_The Pledge - Industry Values & Practices.pdf

Summary

Seafood Industry Australia commissioned Sea Change Consulting Australia to review values statements and recorded practices of 52 Australian seafood organisations. This review collated the most common Australian industry values and underpinning behaviours (practices), which provides evidence to demonstrate the industry’s effort and performance regarding to meet shared practices and values to earn its social licence to operate.

Report • 2020-09-07 • 1.12 MB
2017-242_Community Sentiment Research.pdf

Summary

Essence was engaged by Seafood Industry Australia to undertake a research program to help inform the development of a pledge to the Australian community and provide a benchmark of community sentiment towards the Australian seafood industry.

Final Report • 2020-09-15 • 3.70 MB
2017-242-DLD.pdf

Summary

The Australian seafood industry has clearly identified social licence and community perceptions as critical issues for its ongoing viability and prosperity. This is because current research shows substantial proportions of the Australian public are concerned or knows little about the ethics, environmental impact and governance of the seafood industry. To help improve industry’s social licence, this project aimed to develop a clearer understanding of community and industry values and underpinning behaviours to identify both threats to social license and behaviours community would like to see reinforced by industry.

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PROJECT NUMBER • 2020-058
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Communications Program – Increasing community understanding, trust and acceptance for the Western Rock Lobster industry

The original intention of the Western Rock Lobster (WRL) Communications Program was to deliver its communications and engagement activities over four years from 2021 to 2025. However, as investigations progressed additional information about the communication and engagement needs of stakeholders...
ORGANISATION:
Western Rock Lobster Council Inc (WRLC)
Communities
PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-172
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Methods to profile and connect the provenance of wild caught prawn fisheries and their values to the community

The wild prawn industry, as a key influencer of the community's (sustainability) perception of the Australian seafood industry, has addressed identified risks to social license so that it can protect its legal license to operate in public waters. This report provides the results and conclusions on...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Council of Prawn Fisheries Ltd (ACPF)

Bursaries to fund three South Australian Recreational Fishing community members to attend the National Recreational Fishing Conference 2019

Project number: 2019-154
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $4,994.78
Principal Investigator: Sam Stone
Organisation: Department of Primary Industries and Regions South Australia (PIRSA)
Project start/end date: 2 Feb 2020 - 29 Apr 2020
Contact:
FRDC

Need

Co-management is an arrangement whereby responsibilities and obligations for sustainable fisheries management are negotiated, shared and delegated at appropriate levels between government, recreational fishers, Aboriginal traditional fishers, the commercial fishing industry and other key stakeholders such as conservation groups (Neville 2008).

The Minister’s Recreational Fishing Advisory Council (MRFAC) was formed to improve dialogue and communication between recreational fishers and Government. The primary role of the MRFAC is to provide feedback and advice to government on recreational fishing development issues, initiatives and policies that impact the recreational fishing sector. The MRFAC strives to pursue opportunities to improve the co-management arrangements for the recreational fishery.

In 2010/11 an engagement project was undertaken by PIRSA to better understand what recreational fishing means to people and what future they want for their sector. Discussions generated consistent themes and issues of concern to recreational fishers, including sustainable fishing, ongoing access, funding and leadership, governance, education and promotion of the sector.

The outputs from this project identified opportunities for incorporating 'grass roots' input from the recreational sector into fisheries management processes in South Australia (Rowling et al. in prep) must include public consultation opportunities and participation in (1) technical working groups; (2) regional recreational committees; & (3) community forums.

This project aims to enhance these jurisdictional-based opportunities by increasing national-level capacity building opportunities for members of the South Australian community. In addition to the personal development aspect, the ability to create connections and links to the recreational community leaders from other states and territories will be invaluable to the future stewarding of the South Australian Recreational Fishing community.

Objectives

1. To ensure increased participation of South Australian Recreational community members in national Recreational forums
2. Increased provision of pathways and opportunities to assist in better representing the Recreational community on both a state and national level.
3. Increased education and knowledge building opportunities for individual members of the South Australian and Australian Recreational Fishing Community
4. Increased capacity building opportunity for members of the South Australian Recreational Community
5. Support in increasing attendance and networking opportunities for the recreational community across states and territories with a view to increase linkages and information sharing nation-wide

Community Trust in Rural Industries - A framework for advancing social acceptance of the agriculture sector in Australia - A joint RDC initiative

Project number: 2019-042
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $105,000.00
Principal Investigator: Jenny Medway
Organisation: AgriFutures Australia
Project start/end date: 30 Jun 2019 - 30 Jun 2023
Contact:
FRDC

Need

AgriFutures Australia, on behalf of the RDC funding partners, is seeking to develop a sector wide understanding of community trust in rural industries. This scope includes identifying key and material issues with industry stakeholders in order to effectively baseline community sentiment quantitatively. This baseline will then provide data against which additional data collection activities in years two and three may be used to assess sector initiatives designed to improve trust, monitor changes in community trust and its drivers due to external factors, and clearly communicate sector sustainability narratives to key external and internal stakeholders. Moreover, there is significant power in approaching this as a collective of agricultural industries to develop a consolidated, consistent framework for community trust that may then be used in industry-specific ways as required.

Objectives

1. A stakeholder engagement process to determine the industry’s key social license issues
2. An annual quantitative benchmark survey of community sentiment, including issues identified in the stakeholder engagement process
3. Pathways and models for improving community trust and acceptance over time
4. A report outlining the social insights and trust building strategies
5. Supporting communication material to facilitate interpretation of the data insights and research outcomes

Fact sheet

Fact Sheet • 2020-05-13 • 342.96 KB
2019-042-CTRI Fact Sheet-DLD.pdf

Summary

Rural industries (fishers, farmers and foresters) have collaborated to develop a pathway to proactive, transparent, long term engagement with the community via a three-year research program into the drivers of community trust.

Project products

Brochure • 2020-05-13 • 250.76 KB
2019-042-CTRI Infographic-DLD.pdf

Summary

Rural industries (fishers, farmers and foresters) have collaborated to develop a pathway to proactive, transparent, long term engagement with the community via a three-year research program into the drivers of community trust
Fact Sheet • 2020-09-01 • 198.61 KB
SEP20028 Community Trust - Infographic Mk4.pdf

Summary

The Community Trust in Rural Industries project aims to understand the nature of the relationship between Australia’s rural industries and the community, uncovering the real drivers of trust, risks and opportunities and the connectedness of the sector. It also aims to build capacity of rural industries to improve levels of community trust in their activities and people.
Fact Sheet • 2020-09-03 • 303.89 KB
SEP20028 Community Trust - Fact Sheet MK5.pdf

Summary

The Community Trust in Rural Industries project aims to understand the nature of the relationship between Australia’s rural industries and the community, uncovering the real drivers of trust, risks and opportunities and the connectedness of the sector. It also aims to build capacity of rural industries to improve levels of community trust in their activities and people.
Film/Video • 2020-11-18

Summary

Webinar presentation, designed for fisheries managers, on the results of the first stage of the research into understanding community trust for rural industries - fishing and aquaculture results.
Film/Video • 2020-11-24

Summary

Webinar, designed for presentation to industry, presenting the finding from 'Understanding community trust for rural industries - fishing and aquaculture results'. 

Fact Sheet • 2021-12-31 • 2.83 MB
2019-042-DLD_2.pdf

Summary

The Community Trust in Rural Industries project aims to understand the nature of the relationship between Australia’s rural industries and the community, uncovering the real drivers of trust, risks and opportunities and the connectedness of the sector. It also aims to build capacity of rural industries to improve levels of community trust in their activities and people. This fact sheet reports the findings from the second year survey.
Final Report • 25.41 MB
2019-042-DLD_3.pdf

Summary

The Community Trust in Rural Industries (CTRI) project has been conducted since 2019, almost 20,000 Australians projecting their voices into the heart of rural industry decision making via a representative annual national survey. The longitudinal nature of this research has provided a rich set of data, illuminating the dynamic nature of community sentiment, the pathways to deeper trust in and acceptance of rural industries, and the challenges that rural industries must continue to focus on.
Fact Sheet • 2022-09-26 • 592.86 KB
2019-042-SEP22040-CTRI-Infographic-Fisheries-MK6-A4.pdf

Summary

Year Three Key Insights – September 2022
 
Rural industries (fishers, aquaculture producers, farmers and foresters) have collaborated to develop a pathway to proactive, transparent, long-term engagement with the community via a three-year research program into the drivers of community trust.
Report • 2024-03-04 • 13.61 MB
2019-042_AgriFutures_CTRI_Year4_20231220-0112.pdf

Summary

This is the fourth year of the Community Trust in Rural Industries (CTRI) project. To date we have heard from over 22,000 Australians through our nationally representative annual survey. Over time, we have collected a robust set of longitudinal data that sets out the ways in which rural industries can meet industry challenges and create a deeper relationship with the Australian community based on trust.
Publication • 2024-03-04 • 3.97 MB
2019-042_CTRI_Y4_2023_summary.pdf

Summary

Expanding our understanding with two new sets of measures that were investigated in 2023:
  • A) Investigating how people are looking for, thinking about and perceiving rural industry information.
  • B) A deep dive into trust and acceptance of retailers to understand differences in trust and acceptance of these groups compared to Rural Industries as a whole.
Publication • 2024-03-04 • 1.46 MB
2019-042_CTRI_Y4_2023_Infographic.pdf

Summary

This document provides a visual summary of the achievements and progress made in the CTRI project during the fourth year of its implementation. It highlights key outcomes, milestones, and insights gained in building trust within rural industries and offers a snapshot of the project's impact and contributions toward fostering trust and collaboration in rural communities.
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