Abstract: Ninti One’s organisational focus is on having a positive impact. This means generating things that contribute to and enhance social functioning and wellbeing for people in remote Australia. It means demonstrable improvements in people’s lives and expansion of their options. Many of Ninti One’s impacts are in the form of ‘public goods’ from which benefits are diffused widely among individuals and communities and over time, making them very difficult to measure. Even where tangible impacts can be readily identified, the sparseness of markets in remote Australia means that prices do not always show the value of alternative uses of those resources. Despite this, Ninti One has invested in detailed evaluation of the costs and impacts of selected projects. This evaluation shows that since its inception in 2003, Ninti One has generated over $239 million in economic and social benefits for remote Australia.
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