Two more graziers wanted to beef up LDC panel

THE priority of the Burdekin Major Integrated Project (BMIP) is to deliver enduring and sustainable land management within the communities of the Bowen, Broken and Bogie (BBB) catchment.

In turn, this will help improve the productivity of grazing enterprises, reduce the loss of sediment and particulate nutrients, and decrease the impacts on important wetlands, coastal aquatic habitats and ecosystems, and the Great Barrier Reef.

The BMIP, renamed locally as Landholders Driving Change (LDC), represents a unique way of addressing land and water quality issues in a Great Barrier Reef catchment.

As the project title suggests, NQ Dry Tropics and our consortium members have taken a ‘from the ground up’ approach to program design and have involved landholders from the very start of the process.

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BBB LANDHOLDER REPRESENTATIVES

THE project panel is made up of representatives (pictured on this page) that include landholders, NQ Dry Tropics, scientists and technical experts, local government and the Queensland Government.

Landholder representation is important for strategic and management oversight of the project, particularly the BBB Grazier Support activity area – to maintain community ownership and a focus on locally relevant and practical program delivery, but also to provide critical input to all other activity areas.

According to the project panel’s Terms of Reference, landholders must make up at least 50% of the project panel. Up to four project panel meetings are scheduled each year.

Project panel members not employed by the Queensland Government, NQ Dry Tropics or who are contracted to the LDC project or related projects, are recompensed for time and travel.

ROLE OF THE PROJECT PANEL

WHILE formal accountability for delivery of the LDC project rests with NQ Dry Tropics, the project panel provides a steering function, within an agreed Terms of Reference that defines the membership, scope, role and operating rules of the panel.

The role of the panel includes:

• reviewing key LDC project strategy documents and oversight of their implementation;
• reviewing annual work plans and progress reports;
• guiding and advising on communications activities; and
• Identifying and facilitating links, projects, research, policies and programs relevant to successful delivery of the project.