Departmental Results Framework 2018 to 2019
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Core Responsibility: Rights and Self-Determination
Support Indigenous and Northern organizations, individuals, communities and governments in controlling and managing their own affairs and interests based on the recognition and honouring of rights, respect, collaboration and partnerships. Activities include: governance capacity and community planning, negotiating and implementing treaties, self-government agreements and specific claims; addressing historic grievances; consulting and engaging on issues of importance to First Nations, Inuit, Métis and Northerners as well as registration, estates, trust moneys administration and implementation of the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement.
Departmental Result 1: Indigenous peoples and Northerners determine their political, economic, social and cultural development
Departmental Indicators
- Percentage of First Nations adopting alternatives to the Indian Act
- Number of communities where Indigenous Rights and Self-Determination processes are underway
- Number of communities where Indigenous Rights and Self-Determination agreements have been concluded
- Percentage of First Nations that exercise options to collect, manage and/or access revenues held in trust
- Percentage of Arctic Council initiatives that correlate to or advance Canadian Indigenous Permanent Participants' priorities
Departmental Result 2: Indigenous peoples and Northerners advance their governance institutions
Departmental Indicators
- Percentage of First Nation communities with Financial Management System Certification through the First Nations Financial Management Board
- Percentage of First Nation communities with land governance regimes established
- Percentage of First Nation communities with real property taxation regimes supported through the First Nations Tax Commission
- Completion of devolution phases in Nunavut
Departmental Result 3: Past injustices are recognized and resolved
Departmental Indicators
- The annual percentage of specific claims accepted for negotiation that are resolved by means of a negotiated settlement agreement
- Hectares of land added to the reserve land base to fulfill legal obligations
- Percentage of Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement claims completed through the Independent Assessment Process
- Number of litigation claims concluded
Program Inventory
- Statutory, Legislative and Policy Support to First Nations Governance
- Negotiations of Claims and Self-Government Agreements
- Specific Claims
- Management and Implementation of Agreements and Treaties
- Consultation and Accommodation
- Consultation and Policy Development
- Federal Interlocutor's Contribution Program
- Basic Organizational Capacity
- Other Claims
- First Nation Jurisdiction over Land and Economic Development
- Northern and Arctic Governance and Partnerships
- Individual Affairs
- Residential Schools Resolution
Core Responsibility: Community and Regional Development
Support the efforts of Indigenous and Northern communities in sustainable economic development, sustainable food, natural resources and environmental management. This includes: investment in Indigenous and Northern entrepreneurs and businesses; land management and resource development; clean energy development and climate change adaptation; remediation of contaminated sites; and protection of the Arctic ecosystems and advancement of northern (Arctic) science and technology.
Departmental Result 4: Indigenous communities advance their business development and economic growth
Departmental Indicators
- Percentage of First Nation communities where non-government revenues represent 25% or more of total revenues
- Number of Indigenous businesses created and/or expanded
- Percentage growth of federal procurement contracts set aside for Indigenous businesses
Departmental Result 5: Indigenous and Northern communities strengthen their capacity to adapt to changing environments
Departmental Indicators
- Percentage of Climate Change Impact Assessments that identify adaptation measures
- The annual growth rate of food prices in isolated Northern communities compared to the national growth rate
Departmental Result 6: Land and resources in Indigenous communities and the North are sustainably managed
Departmental Indicators
- Percentage of contaminated sites on reserve that pose imminent danger to public health and safety where clean-up or containment is occurring to reduce risk
- Percentage of contaminated sites in the North that pose imminent danger to public health and safety and the environment that are being actively managed
- Percentage of First Nations with land use plans
- Percentage of First Nation communities with certified land managers
- Percentage of First Nations, Inuit and Northern Communities that are dependent on diesel
- Percentage of First Nations, Inuit and Northern Communities that are implementing projects that reduce dependency/reliance on diesel
- Percentage of First Nation communities with adequate solid waste management systems
Program Inventory
- Indigenous Entrepreneurship and Business Development
- Economic Development Capacity and Readiness
- Land, Natural Resources and Environmental Management
- Climate Change Adaptation and Clean Energy
- Northern Strategic and Science Policy
- Northern Regulatory and Legislative Frameworks
- Northern and Arctic Environmental Sustainability
- Northern Contaminated Sites
- Canadian High Arctic Research Station
- Nutrition North