Strategies

Since its establishment, WoMEDA has launched a number of landmark reports.

In 2022, WoMEDA became a project partner in the Skills and Jobs for the West VU Rise program. This project investigated the future jobs needs of employers in Melbourne's west, in three target industry sectors – infrastructure, digital economy and social services and care.
In 2021, WoMEDA released the report Werribee Precinct: A Vibrant Satellite City for Melbourne, which identified Werribee, with its booming population, as a logical location to develop a new satellite city in Melbourne’s west.
In 2020, WoMEDA released Investing in a New Hospital for Melton, which outlines the importance of a new Melton Hospital to the local economy and explains how the hospital will create jobs for the region, as well as a preferred site analysis.
In 2019, WoMEDA expanded on Sunshine, and released Sunshine: Daring to be Great - Economic Development and Jobs Strategy for the Sunshine Gateway Precinct. The report details how economic growth and job development should be supercharged off the back of the significant State Government investment heading into the region over the next two decades.
In 2017, WoMEDA released Investing in a Health Cluster in Footscray.  The Centre of Policy Studies undertook an analysis of one of WoMEDA’s proposals for the Footscray employment hub - to co-locate the proposed new Footscray Hospital with Victoria University at Footscray Park, to create a unique health, sport and active living precinct.
In 2017, WoMEDA launched The Economic Development Strategy for the West of Melbourne, with the focus explicitly on strengthening employment in the west, focused on three major employment hubs - Footscray, Werribee and Sunshine.