Our Values
NIECA values centre on strengthening community, culture, and Country. Core principles include respect, responsibility, and integrity.
Self-determination: NIECA supports independence and building capacity within Indigenous corporations and communities in partnership with them, empowering their leadership of their direction.
Community First: NIECA’s primary focus is on supporting community engagement, well-being in all aspects, and valuing community perspectives and respect for Indigenous knowledge holders. This includes commitment to the sustainability of culture, ecological systems and the environment, led by cultural integrity.
Respect: Relationships with stakeholders and communities are based on mutual respect, with valuing the perspectives of others.
Integrity: Honesty, transparency, accountability, cultural authenticity and high ethical standards apply to all NIECA operations, strategy, activities and relationships.
Cultural Continuity: Business practices are grounded in traditional knowledge, values, and cultural protocols in alignment with NIECA’s commitment to embodying cosmology, epistemology, ontology, and axiology in all aspects of its work, leadership and interactions.
Sustainability: Creating long-term benefits for Indigenous communities, with a focus on empowering future generations. NIECA is committed to integrating the empowerment of future generations in all aspects of its work, decision making and representation.
Self-determination: NIECA supports independence and building capacity within Indigenous corporations and communities in partnership with them, empowering their leadership of their direction.
Our Vision
To provide a platform for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander institution leaders and representatives, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander scholars and Indigenous knowledge holders to develop, define and lead our destiny with a unified voice across church, society and politics. Defined by a future founded on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander traditional knowledge to create stronger, healthier communities that are self-determining.
Our Mission
Through presenting a united voice, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander institution leaders and representatives, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander scholars and Indigenous knowledge holders will call for action to address historical and continuing injustices and shape ministry, leadership and pathways to higher education. By amplifying our ancient wisdom, stories and ways of knowing, being and doing via connection to our law, language and ceremony, this will ensure self-determination for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, now and into the future.
Purpose
To equip and empower Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander institution leaders and representatives, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander scholars and Indigenous knowledge holders to pursue truth, justice, reparations, reconciliation and ecological well-being through deep listening and higher education.