With funding from the Cooperative Venture for Capacity Building, we examined the capacities of regional NRM bodies and their service providers to undertake more sophisticated planning and prioritisation for their investment of public funds in the environment and natural resources.

Detailed case studies of two regional bodies, based on large numbers of focus group discussions

Seymour, E., Marsh, S., Pannell, D., Ridley, A., and Wilkinson, R. (2007). "Exploring needs to build capacity for Natural Resource Management in the South Coast region of Western Australia", SIF3 Working Paper 0703, Future Farm Industries CRC, Perth. Full paper (478K)

Seymour, E., Marsh, S., Pannell, D., Ridley, A., and Wilkinson, R. (2007). "Exploring needs to build capacity for Natural Resource Management in the North Central region of Victoria", SIF3 Working Paper 0705, Future Farm Industries CRC, Perth. Full paper (426K)

A survey of 18 regional NRM bodies nationally regarding capacity needs

Seymour, E., Pannell, D., Ridley, A., Marsh, S., and Wilkinson, R. (2007). "Capacity needs for technical analysis and decision making within Australian catchment management organisations", SIF3 Working Paper 0702, Future Farm Industries CRC, Perth. Full paper (404K)

Two-page summary of results

Summary of results from CVCB project on capacities of regional NRM bodies for planning and prioritising their investments (2 page pdf file). (Based on working papers 0702, 0703 and 0705).