Munarra:
Centre for Regional Excellence, Numurkah Road, Shepparton, Victoria
Munarra Project Partners
The vision of Munarra, (the Munarra Centre for Regional Excellence, or MCRE) is to combine Indigenous education, culture, the arts and sport to develop pathways to empower, educate and develop the local Indigenous community; creating healthy people, healthy communities and the leaders of tomorrow.
The Rumbalara Football and Netball Club proposal founded the project which was granted $25M for the development of MCRE, to be operated and managed by the Indigenous community.
The project vision incorporates partnerships between Rumbalara Football Netball Club, the Yorta Yorta community, Elders, Kaiela Institute, University of Melbourne, Greater Shepparton City Council and the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet.
With complex stakeholder issues, multiple project owners and sometimes competing desired outcomes, Urban Neighbourhoods was brought in to support the community and provide independent advice in the consultation process of design, development and operations of the centre.
The vision of Munarra, (the Munarra Centre for Regional Excellence, or MCRE) is to combine Indigenous education, culture, the arts and sport to develop pathways to empower, educate and develop the local Indigenous community; creating healthy people, healthy communities and the leaders of tomorrow.
The Rumbalara Football and Netball Club proposal founded the project which was granted $25M for the development of MCRE, to be operated and managed by the Indigenous community.
The project vision incorporates partnerships between Rumbalara Football Netball Club, the Yorta Yorta community, Elders, Kaiela Institute, University of Melbourne, Greater Shepparton City Council and the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet.
With complex stakeholder issues, multiple project owners and sometimes competing desired outcomes, Urban Neighbourhoods was brought in to support the community and provide independent advice in the consultation process of design, development and operations of the centre.
Team and system development
Urban Neighbourhoods also managed project workshops functions and managed navigating for the technical, architectural and planning teams. For future stages we developed and created new systems processes for handover to the internal development team, thus ensuring their knowledge capture and systems design were retained in-house.
Project advice and support
Urban Neighbourhoods provided management support to the Indigenous community and navigated the journey, communicating between the complex stakeholder requirements and project partners.
Our role was to interpret and provide simple, clear communication to all competing stakeholders in the development process, so they had a clear project understanding of the vision and delivery process, timing, budgets and development outcomes.
Clearing the fog
When working on a project such as this with different project partners, stakeholders and government agencies, there is always a certain amount of complexity and the potential for confusion.
The complexity of the development itself as well as the project deadline meant stakeholders were often confused by stages and timelines. Our task was to provide a clear pathway through the fog, so the Indigenous community were able to know at a glance how the project was progressing.
We provided:
- a single point of contact, advice and management
- regular discussions and collaboration with stakeholders
- clear communication of all information.
Our task was to provide a clear pathway through the fog of complexity on this project.
Let us clear a path for you through the fog of development complexity.
