These Community Engagement Coordinators will support capacity building and collaboration, allowing DFO and Coast Guard to better understand the priorities and capacity within the Arctic region and enhance the delivery of Arctic programs. We will continue to engage partners and share information and work together on innovative ways to maintain the delivery of programs and services during the pandemic, and ensure the health and safety of communities in the Arctic.įive Indigenous Community Engagement Coordinators have been hired in local communities across the Arctic so far to act as a liaison between the Department and communities in the north as part of a pilot project. The ongoing pandemic will continue to present operational challenges for program and service delivery in the Arctic. In 2020-21, our priority is to continue to work with partners on establishing more permanent governance and developing solutions to advance priorities and include Inuit, First Nation and Metis organizations and government in the decision making in the DFO and Coast Guard Arctic Regions. Ongoing transition of program delivery from the south to the north, development of a departmental northern human resources strategy, and recruitment of northerners into DFO and Coast Guard are key priorities. We have heard that we need to increase capacity, service delivery and presence of DFO and Coast Guard programs and services in the north, include Indigenous knowledge in decision-making, remove employment barriers and create job opportunities in northern communities, co-develop climate change adaptation strategies, increase infrastructure development, and that policy-making needs to be led from the north by northerners.Ĭontinued engagement with partners will further advance these priorities in the Arctic. Since 2018, DFO and Coast Guard have conducted extensive engagements with Inuit, First Nations and Metis and northern partners across the Arctic. My Department continues to build its partnerships with Inuit, First Nations and Métis governments and organizations to ensure appropriate re-alignment of our programs and services to better serve communities, provide new opportunities to engage and participate in decision making, and to increase representation of Indigenous peoples in DFO and Coast Guard.
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