This presentation explores what it takes to co-design at scale, Australia’s largest investment ($51.8m), dedicated to delivering the Reef Trust Partnership Traditional Owner Reef Protection Program in the Great Barrier Reef.
This presentation takes a closer look at a successful multi-year co-design initiative to heal Sea Country with Traditional Owners across the Great Barrier Reef. We share what it takes to host and facilitate co-design, including where and how we share power and responsibility for decision making and delivery. Importantly we show our working out – including what is possible, addressing literature gaps in how to design, lead and sponsor co-design and educate future funders of co-design and participants in what it takes and what red flags to look out for.
This presentation will promote that successful co-design takes courageous and ongoing systems and organisational leadership, having time and working to the pace of communities, willingness from Traditional Owners, prioritising Indigenous knowledge systems, having flexible funding, trusting emergence, working creatively in and around bureaucracy and building capability in communities to benefit from grants. It will also include new design elements that re-imagine existing models that are relevant in current co-design theory.