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The Avon Investment Plan 2006/08 identifies investment opportunities totaling $22.73m sourced from State and Australian Governments through NAPSWQ and NHT and supported by community funding for the 2006 to 2008 financial years. The basis for allocation of this investment has been drawn from the target prioritisation, asset and threat priority identification and budgeting processes developed in association with AIP 05/06.

This work alone was, however, not sufficient to enable a comprehensive two year investment plan to be developed and additional planning and development, including stakeholder and partner consultation was carried out over 4 months from December 2005 to March 2006. To improve the planning process an analysis of existing investment planning was also completed. This analysis highlighted the need to identify additional opportunities for investment in regional priorities (not funded by NAPSWQ/NHT), including research and development. These priorities have been identified by the ACC’s Blue Sky Working Group and will be acted upon in the coming two years. Indigenous issues were also inadequately addressed in 2005/06 investment planning and support has been provided to a representative regional Aboriginal NRM working group to identify the Aboriginal community’s NRM aspirations and priorities. This group has identified investment opportunities that have formed a new project proposal. The committee structure established to assist investment planning has also included an Investment Plan Working Group, comprising community, agency and Council representation to oversee investment planning and report to Council.

On ground investment will continue to be delivered through a series of projects and will be coordinated through four delivery programs that have been created to integrate activities across resource themes (Water, Land and Biodiversity). The programs are:

1. Integrated Water Management.
2. Sustainable Industries.
3. Natural Diversity.
4. NStakeholder Engagement and Partnership Development

The Stakeholder Engagement and Partnership Development Program has been developed for the current round of investment planning to coordinate and deliver monitoring and evaluation, stakeholder relations, indigenous NRM and building strategic partnerships, previously funded through a percentage allocation from all projects. The reporting of outputs from the previous functional management structure (funded from a percentage allocation from all projects) was considered to be limited and as such these positions have been incorporated into a single Program support project for 2006/08.