Planning & Policy

Through community-driven planning, policy, and protocol development, we support communities in defining a vision for future relationships with lands and resources, and the processes for achieving that vision.

What do you want your community to look like in next seven generations? Creating plans and policies is like creating roadmaps to guide your community to a bright future by defining your community’s unique values and goals. Planning initiatives helps establish a clear direction, improves capacity and resource management, reduces uncertainty, enhances decision-making abilities, and increases the likelihood of achieving goals.

Plan for your community’s future

Which type of plan or policy is right for your community? 

Different planning and policy initiatives support different community goals. Our experience with community-led planning and policy initiatives include:

  • Comprehensive Community Planning

  • Food Security & Sovereignty Planning

  • Consultation & Accommodations Policy

  • Indigenous Community-led Regional Planning

  • Community-based Mining Strategies

  • Strategic planning for Indigenous communities and organizations

Need help to lift your project off the ground? 

Our approach to community planning and policy making:

  • We put community voices at the forefront of our work to ensure that project outcomes reflect each community’s distinctive goals and values.

  • We help communities assert their rightful jurisdiction over lands and resources on reserve and in the broader territory.

  • We help communities establish how they want to be consulted on projects and how they want to be accommodated for impacts on rights and interests.

  • We advocate for, and directly participate in, governance, legislation, and oversight of land claim negotiations, development projects, climate change actions, and more.