MCC — Mob and Country Connections

MCC — Mob and Country Connections — is IRAAC's flagship capability program, and the clearest expression of what its whole body of governance work is for. Having invested in its own foundations — Board reporting frameworks, compliance calendars for ORIC and ACNC, a shared digital office, and hands-on training for staff — IRAAC's next step is to share that same foundation with other Aboriginal Community Organisations across the sector.

MCC is the vehicle for that: an Aboriginal-led, peer-to-peer capability initiative in which the systems and training IRAAC built for itself become a resource for others, carried between organisations by people who have actually lived the work rather than delivered as an external consulting product. The knowledge moves the way knowledge has always moved in community — through relationships, at the invitation of the people receiving it.

MCC also carries a deliberate research question inside it: does peer-to-peer capability building genuinely improve governance outcomes across the sector? Because every engagement runs on the same reporting backbone Sebenza maintains with IRAAC, the program can honestly track what was delivered, what changed, and what funders and regulators saw at the other end.

If the model works, MCC becomes the template for IRAAC's larger ambition — operating as a capability hub for smaller Aboriginal organisations across NSW, with evidence behind it rather than good intentions alone. That evidence-first approach is also what makes MCC fundable: agencies can see not just what the program intends, but what it can demonstrate.