A re-focus of Indigenous Knowledge is a multi-layered healing aspiration of TKRP, which steers the direction of the project towards traditional ways of dealings. The majority of Indigenous Elders in Communities understand the problems with the Community and Environment and bear the frustrations of not being able to re-apply traditional values.

The Elders have voiced many concerns to government and industry relating to the lack of cooperative management regimes, and the lack of recognition of their inherited knowledge system as being of true value to contemporary outcomes.

There is no doubt that in today?s society Elders need new tools and assistance to pass on their traditional values to younger generations.  To support this, there is the need for collaborative recognition from other authorities currently responsible for land and community management.
 

This project is based on

1. ensuring the survival of cultural knowledge; and

2. the opportunity to demonstrate practices that have the ability to ?innovate?
    contemporary management and community outcomes for the benefit of all
    generations to come.

TKRP seeks to support Indigenous Elders to mentor the process of Indigenous Knowledge Research and recording throughout Australia and with interests Inter-nationally.  The Initiative  is rapidly disbursing its recording and mentoring methodology into other regions.  The project has a demonstrated record of success, with a focused methodology, that has been built over time from grass roots communinties. 

The Project is achieving the following:

1. Transfer of Traditional Knowledge from the Elders to their young people based
    on the traditional methods as determined by the Elders.
2. Digitally recording this Traditional Knowledge before it is lost forever.
3. Storing knowledge onto multi-versions of a digital knowledgebase.
4. Incorporating traditional knowledge in cooperative land management strategies
    and building this practice into ?Best practice principles? in all land management.
5. Building and improving the profile of Indigenous Knowledge and its appreciation
    with other land managers and users both nationally and internationally. (Eg,
    pastoralists, government and the general public).
6. Creating practical action, research-driven, projects as live case studies to
    better collaborative land and community management.

TKRP is continuing to develop by assisting the Elders to conduct their own research on their own terms.  The Elders need vital assistance to pass on their knowledge and most importantly, to practically implement their inherited cultural responsibilities in a race against time to rehabilitate our communities and environment.