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Stronger Together: Joint First Nations–Municipal Community Economic Development Toolkit

Cando Conference 2014

• Sept. 25, 2014

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Item Length

Introductions and meeting objectives 10 min First Nation-municipal partnerships 10 min About the CEDI Program 10 min About the Toolkit 10 min

Friendship Accords

20 min Toolkit Q&A and feedback 10 min Closing 5 min

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Agenda

We want to hear from you! Please feel free ask questions, raise concerns or give feedback at any time!

Helen Patterson, Program Manager Morgan Bamford, Program Coordinator

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Introducing the CEDI Team

Supporting CEDI Focus Communities Developing CEDI Toolkit Marena Winstanley, Research and Knowledge Officer

Questions to the floor:

Who here is:

• an EDO?
• an elected official?
• a consultant?

What do you hope to take away from this workshop?

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Participant Introductions

• To inspire and empower participants to pursue a partnership with their

adjacent municipality and use the Toolkit to do so

• To test Toolkit format and tools and receive early feedback

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Workshop Objectives

First Nation-Municipal Partnerships

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Turn to your neighbour and take 5 minutes to discuss: Why would a First Nation want to partner on community economic development with a neighbouring municipality? Does anyone want to share their responses with the larger group?

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Why partner?

• New employment opportunities
• New sources of revenue
• Greater investment in physical

infrastructure and assets

• Cost savings in service provision
• Increased local business development and

business opportunities

• More favorable environment for investors
• Diversified local economies / access to

larger market for existing businesses

• Stronger voice and increased ability to

leverage funding from other levels of government

• Better land use and land management
• Ability to accommodate growing

populations and/or attract new inhabitants

• Enhanced social capital for elected officials

and staff

• Enhanced community resilience
• Ability to resolve common problems at a

regional level

• Ability to quickly and easily consult your

neighbour on pertinent issues

• Stronger sense of place for community

members

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Benefits of First Nation- Municipal Partnerships

Some of the benefits that First Nations-municipal partnerships have experienced include:

About the CEDI Program

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OVERVIEW

Our v vis isio ion: Empowering First Nations and municipalities to become effective partners in fostering strong and mutually beneficial local economies

• Joint initiative of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM)

and Cando, funded by AANDC

• Three year project - April 2013 to March 2016
• Pilot project to support capacity-building for joint First Nations-

municipal CED projects and planning

• Knowledge dissemination of lessons learned from pilot project

through Toolkit, website and Community of Practice

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Seabird Island First Nation District of Kent, British Columbia Sawridge First Nation Town of Slave Lake MD of Slave River No. 124, Alberta Opaskwayak Cree Nation Town of the Pas RM of Kelsey, Manitoba Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI), Lac Seul First Nation Municipality of Sioux Lookout, Ontario Eagle Village First Nation Municipality of Kipawa Ville de Témiscaming, Québec Madawaska Maliseet First Nation Ville d’Edmundston, New Brunswick

CEDI Focus Community Pairs

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• Sioux Lookout, Lac Seul First Nation and Kitchenuhmaykoosib

Inninuwug First Nation (ON) are creating a regional distribution centre cooperative that will bring affordable, healthy food and dried goods to remote First Nations communities

• The three EDOs of Eagle Village First Nation, Ville de Témiscaming and

Municipality of Kipawa (QC)are drafting a joint tourism strategy to take advantage of new provincial park being opened in their regional

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Example Joint Projects and Planning Activities

About the CEDI Toolkit

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Rep eplic icate a a field ld tes ested proces ess The Toolkit uses decision-making tools to replicate the process undergone by the CEDI Focus Communities to initiate and build a First Nation‒municipal partnership to pursue joint community economic development. Start where re y you a are re at The process of partnering and pursuing joint CED is broken into 9 Stages (see CEDI Process handout) that can be used independently or followed from beginning to end. Don

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rein einvent t the e wheel All Tools will be available in Microsoft Word and thus can be immediately and easily adapted, saved to your computer and shared with your partner(s).

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Why should I use the Toolkit?

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How is the Toolkit being developed?

Toolkit

TPRC Research Focus Communities

FOCUS COMMUNITIES field test tools and CEDI Process RESEARCH best practices and lessons learned TOOLKIT PEER REVIEW COMMITTEE (TPRC) experience and expertise of 11-member group of experts and practitioners from across Canada

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CEDI Proce cess: ss: Partnership Building

PARTNERSHIP BUILDING 1) Connect: How can I connect with my neighbour(s)? 2) Strengthen: What are some of the ways to strengthen our relationship? 3) Celebrate: How can we celebrate our ongoing partnership?

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CED CEDI P Proce

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ss: : Joint CED Initiatives, Projects and Plans

Joint CED Initiatives, Projects and Plans 4) Decide: What do we need to know and how can we jointly decide on CED activities? 5) Check: What and with whom do we have to check with to ensure success? 6) Plan: How do we plan together? 7) Act: What are the steps to jointly act on our plans? 8) Reflect: What can we learn from reflecting on our progress so far? 9) Celebrate: How do we engage our communities in celebrating our success?

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CEDI Proce cess: ss: What do you think?

Enough of us talking! Now it’s your turn to tell us what you think!

Please turn to your neighbour and take 5 minutes to discuss: In your community, can you see yourselves engaging with your municipal neighbour and using any of these Stages?

Friendship Accords

Strengthening your partnership

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A Friendship Accord is a public declaration of commitment to the partnership that serves as the framework for the partnership by outlining how partners will act towards each other and how they will collaborate. Benefits of signing a Friendship Accord can include:

• Clarifies purpose and goals of partnership
• Engages the broader community in the partnership , especially if a signing

ceremony is held and the Accord is posted in a public place

• Maintains partnerships’ momentum through changes in leadership and also

signals to staff the importance of the partnership to elected officials

• Increases investor and business confidence by signaling a regional approach to

development

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Friendship Accords

Note: Normally you would meet with your partner to do this. Instructions

• 1. Form small groups
• 2. Individually, take 5 minutes to read each sample Friendship Accord

and note to yourself what elements you like

• 3. As a group, share the key elements that you would like to see

included in an Accord between your community and a partner

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Friendship Accord Exercise This exercise and example

Friendship Accords will shortly be available on the Toolkit webpage

• Can you see your community drafting and signing a Friendship

Accord with your neighbouring community?

• Do you feel that this Tool would help you do that?
• Is anything missing?
• Any general comments?

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Feedback

General Questions & Feedback on Toolkit

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How can we get others to use the Tool?

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Dissemination

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Let’s keep the conversation going!

Web ebsite: e: www.fcm.ca/CEDI Contact Us!

Helen Patterson, CEDI Program Manager hpatterson@fcm.ca Morgan Bamford, CEDI Program Coordinator Morgan.Bamford@edo.ca Marena Winstanley, CEDI Research and Knowledge Officer mwinstanley@fcm.ca

@FN_Muni_CEDI

Resources soon to be available online:

• Friendship Accord exercise and examples
• Multimedia case study of Membertou

and Cape Breton Regional Municipality

• Toolkit (January 2015)