Flagship Advisory Council

The Water for a Healthy Country Flagship is guided by a Flagship Advisory Council which provides strategic advice to assist CSIRO achieve tangible outcomes through:

• focusing the research and development effort within the Flagship on those areas that are key to achieving the goal
• establishing effective partnerships between research and water management sectors; and
• delivering innovative, world-class science that can be used in community and policy decisions.

The Flagship Advisory Council also advises the Flagship Director on strategic directions and management of the R&D (research and development) agenda for the Water for a Healthy Country Flagship with particular emphasis on:

• what research will be required to support decision makers at a range of scales to achieve a quantum change in water benefits
• issues requiring new approaches
• the policy and management environment into which the R&D is directed, thereby maximising progress towards achievement of the Flagship's goal
• the opportunities to build and maintain effective partnerships
• evaluation of the degree of uptake by decision makers at a range of scales and a peer review of the contribution of the Flagship to increased benefits from water in Australia in 2007 and 2011.