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Rubbish: The women were particularly concerned about how rubbish relating to vehicle maintenance was piling uparound houses.The main dangers in their assessment are from snakes nesting in old cars in the yard, glass and sharp metal, batteryacid in old batteries, and the risk of heavy objects falling or collapsing.4.4.4 Links between the focus group findings and the LIPIn this section, we describe the strategies and actions defined under each Activity statement of the LIP andprovide a commentary on the relevance of the focus group findings in each case.LIP Activity. Economic Participation Priority 1: Local people in local jobs (Commonwealth of Australia 2010)Strategy 1.1: Local businesses and jobs are developed.Action 1.1.11: Explore partnership opportunities in the private sector, with a particular emphasis on building formallinks with industries operating in the region. These partnerships could include (but not be limited to) training,employment, infrastructure and community development.Strategy 2.1: Ntaria residents acquire the skills required to find and take up jobsAction 2.1.7 Ntaria community members learn safe driving practices, access driver training and acquire driver’slicencesAfter enquiring, researching and reflecting upon the findings from the fieldwork from Research Cycle 1.1: SafeDriving Survey at Ntaria (Lovell et al. 2011) and 1.2 Vehicle Safety Focus Groups (Lovell et al. 2012), Ninti OneNtaria Research Team recommends that Wurla Nyinta request an investigation of how a combined serviceapproach, as represented by the RSD NPA, could support developing a local garage. The outcome might be linkedwith LIP actions that support adult training outcomes, employment, local business development, youth diversionand community service orders, men’s programs, Job Service Providers services and support, driver licencetraining, tourism, and preventative driver training programs for young people.The team has identified the following actions for progressing safe driving futures in the community of Ntaria:1. Wurla Nyinta asks the government to engage people in the community to participate in developing aviability study and business plan for a garage at Ntaria or Tjuwanpa.Wurla Nyinta requests the viability of a commercial and training garage be investigated as a first step toestablishing a safe choice for repairs and maintenance of vehicles within the community.2. The social, economic, governance and health needs of the community are considered in the viability andbusiness planThe community should be engaged in all aspects of the process of investigating and developing a strategic plan fora local garage.54 Final Report: Strengthening Community Research in Remote Service Delivery at Ntaria