Partnerships are a crucial to successful outcomes through the Walk Together Design. The Indigenous groups that CSCPL has worked with have been open about this. They state their need and desire to draw on and learn from the skills of non-Indigenous people and entities. What they don’t want are partners who challenge the basis of who they are: who challenge their identities and seem to be enforcing a form of assimilation.

Working with the Walk Together Design in communities and townships, or across regions, creates the need for partnerships in that locality. A simple yet very practical and effective example is a partnership between a health service and the school in Wiluna to enhance the learning opportunities for children.

Which partnerships are developed, why and how, are the authority and responsibility of the groups undertaking the change process through the Walk Together Design. change. They will know, better than any outsiders, where the strengths and potential for success lies, and how to generate new and exciting steps with partners rather than competitors and rivals