How we include children and young people in the Wheatbelt NRM Strategic Plan review was the topic of the day.
Youth voice and engagement is a thing, but how do we ensure it is engaging, age appropriate and built around what children can do in meaningful ways.
A tour of the Wake up the Snake exhibition at Boorla Bardip WA Museum was the perfect way to start the day to look at ways young people can meaningfully participate in the big issues. This MK supported project embeds indigenous children
and young people and sharing the things they love about being on Country and how they want to care for water now and in the future.
The afternoon was spent around the table, action learning, co designing a process to answer the big question ‘how can we create a thriving sustainable environment in the Wheatbelt by 2070?’. This work will directly inform upcoming Wheatbelt NRM workshops, delivered in collaboration with Millennium Kids, to support development of the Regional NRM Plan. Focusing on 4 key areas the team nutted out a plan based around Education, Deliberation, Influence and Action, because at the end of it all children and young
people want to be part of the solution. Watch this space. Workshops being rolled out across the Wheatbelt during Science Week.
