National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health
Year of publication:
2010
“Economic development generates employment opportunities and leads to improved education and skills acquisition. It is an important tool in alleviating poverty and other social conditions that lead to ill health.”
“This paper reports findings from what we believe to be the first randomized evaluation of “entry effects” associated with a welfare program innovation.”
“The priorities of the NAEDB, as set out in our Strategic Plan, will allow us to provide the federal government with concrete strategic advice on priority policy, program and service areas as they relate to Aboriginal economic development. To this end, our strategic plan will help focus the Board’s efforts to advise the federal government in achieving tangible progress in the promotion of Aboriginal economic development.”
The National Aboriginal Economic Development Board
Year of publication:
2011
“The recommendations provided in this paper were developed in part through the NAEDB’s participation in these stakeholder engagement sessions, as well as through a review of key research and discussions with subject matter experts.”
The National Aboriginal Economic Development Board
Year of publication:
2013
“Case studies that provide an in-depth and detailed understanding of how barriers to economic development on reserve affected economic opportunities in the Community of Membertou in Nova Scotia, Chippewas of Rama First Nation in Ontario, and the Osoyoos Indian Band in British Columbia. Each case study includes a review of a specific project, identifies the barriers to economic development encountered by the community during the development of the project, and – where possible – provides an assessment of the specific transaction costs incurred by communities to overcome the barriers.”
“The Forum had a dual purpose. The first was to update the Métis Nation Economic Development Framework first developed in February 2009 as an economic development strategy for the Métis Nation in response to the Métis Nation Protocol and the new Federal Framework for Aboriginal Economic Development. The second was to provide Métis Nation input into the implementation of the federal framework as provided by the Protocol with a particular focus on the renovation of INAC economic development programs.”
“To encourage innovative, technology-based learning, Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC) created the Office of Learning Technologies (OLT) in 1996. In this community story Doug Donaldson and Anne Docherty describe how they secured OLT funds for a three-year action research project.”
“In this paper we support the goal of applying a life-course perspective to policies related to Aboriginal peoples but suggest that the framework needs to consider the unique relationship between Aboriginal peoples and public policies. We provide some illustrations using data from the 2001 Aboriginal Peoples Survey.”
