New Commonwealth funding agreements with Aboriginal organisations delivering services in remote NT will be bound by strict governance and accountability mechanisms to help ensure the $842 million would directly benefit remote communities.

Eight new funding agreements between the Federal and NT government have now been signed as part of the Northern Territory Remote Aboriginal Investment (NTRAI).

The six-year plan to strengthen remote services for families, wellbeing and community safety featured some of the strongest transparency mechanisms yet, aimed at lifting accountability to ensure communities properly benefit from funded services.

The landmark partnership between the two governments — with the Aboriginal Peak Organisations Northern Territory (APONT) at the table — would see programs and services delivered by Aboriginal Community-Controlled Organisations were properly scrutinised and evaluated to ensure best outcomes for communities.

Additional new funding agreements for place-based community and economic development, mediation and peacemaking activities, and Aboriginal law and justice groups are set to be finalised in coming months.

Minister for Indigenous Australians, Malarndirri McCarthy, said the remote services were critical to making progress on Closing the Gap outcomes, and also create more than 570 jobs, with half estimated to be First Nations.

"The National Agreement on Closing the Gap makes clear that all levels of government must step up," Senator McCarthy said.

"The NTRAI partnership model puts stronger expectations on the NT Government and the Commonwealth to deliver outcomes our communities can see and feel.

"With APONT at the table, we will continue to build support for programs and services delivered by ACCOs, to make sure remote communities get the best outcomes ... and are not left behind."

The $842.6 million of funding includes:

- $205.8m to strengthen cultural-responsiveness and increase remote policing activities to make communities safer.

- $135.9m to expand and deliver 12 new child and family centres and increase support for 19 remote women's safe spaces.

- $89.2m to improve early learning, school readiness and foundations for lifelong learning and opportunities.

- $76m for First Nations communities to lead local solutions that reduce alcohol-related harm.

- $55m to expand the Aboriginal Interpreter Services and improve access to services, including health and justice.

- $50.5m to deliver integrated, coordinated and culturally safe oral and hearing health services for children.

- $33m to support children in remote non-government schools, including attendance, attainment and engagement outcomes, and the development of the First Nations education workforce.

- $8.4m to create a monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning framework.

Federal Special Envoy for Remote Communities, Marion Scrymgour, said substantive change was required in remote NT communities.

"[They] face unique and systemic challenges, and all levels of governments must come together to address them," she said.

"This is the only way we will see sustainable solutions and outcomes."

Northern Territory Minister for Aboriginal Affairrs, Steven Edgington, said the agreements put action and results at the forefront of the new funding model.

"It puts bush communities in the driver's seat, strengthening their voice in local decisions and development," he said.

Aboriginal Peak Organisations Northern Territory convenor Theresa Roe said it was notable the services were being designed, monitored and evaluated with Aboriginal people and the key organisations that represent them.

"This ensures that Aboriginal people have a say in what are the priorities for Aboriginal people, rather than government," she said.