Indigenous nutrition and governance resource sheets

Two new resource sheets have been released by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare this week:

Healthy lifestyle programs for physical activity and nutrition
This paper assesses the evidence regarding the effectiveness of physical activity and nutrition programs for Indigenous Australians, and identifies strategies that have been demonstrated to be effective. It also reviews strategies that have the potential to be effective, based on their short-term effect or their effectiveness in non-Indigenous populations.

Improving Indigenous community governance through strengthening Indigenous and government organisational capacity
This paper found that strategies that worked to strengthen Indigenous organisational capacity included long-term partnerships between government and Indigenous people, those that recognised local contexts and took a developmental approach, and those that had clarity of purpose.