Approximately 30 participants at the Summit expressed their interest to carry the work forward as part of the "Progress Team".
Meeting #1
The First Progress Team meeting was convened on 5 June 2023 to continue the dialogue around regional collaboration. This meeting aimed to (1) revisit some key concepts from the Summit, (2) share new information and examples of collaborative partnership governance arrangements, (3) provide activities that enabled participants to start to experience real collaboration and decision-making in practice, whilst starting to land some key elements of the work.
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Working Group Meetings
Two working groups were formed to finalise the Vision Statement, Principles and Governance Design for our place-based strategy.
These groups met in July with the objective to take back their work to the Progress Team meeting #2.
Vision Statement Working Group Summary(PDF, 571KB)
Governance Design Working Group Summary(PDF, 2MB)
Meeting #2
The second Progress Team meeting was held on Tuesday 8 August 2023 at the Tara Soldiers Memorial Hall. This meeting aimed to (1) continue learning from other examples of place-based change initiatives, (2) review the work that was progressed by the 2 x working group's established at the previous progress team meeting, (3) continue design work on the governance structure, principles and vision.
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Meeting #3
The third Progress Team meeting was held on Tuesday 17 October 2023 at the Chinchilla RSL. This meeting aimed to (1) continue to deepen the understanding about what is needed for genuine collaboration, (2) create a shared understanding and language on how to hold multipe perspectives in shared decision making, role and authority, and to (3) finalise input on principles. A project plan working group was formed at this meeting to submit a funding application to Advance Queensland as a step towards standing up an initiative under the Western Downs Futures.
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