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About the KTA Aboriginal
Practice Group
Better Vision. Better Policy. Better Futures.
The Aboriginal Practice Group provides the expertise
and skills needed to navigate your way to successful outcomes. Our depth
of experience includes a variety of projects with Aboriginal governments
and organizations, federal, provincial and municipal governments, and
the private and NGO sectors.
We bring together a talented and creative team of professionals with backgrounds
in law, policy and program development, strategic and political analysis,
research, negotiation, facilitation, and high-level management. All members
of our team have working experience with national and regional Aboriginal
organizations and various levels of government, with several members having
held senior executive positions within the public sector.
The Aboriginal Practice Group works towards building a better future through
better vision and better policies. Our services include:
Policy
Development, Research & Analysis
Facilitation
Negotiation
Collaboration
& Partnerships
Policy
Development, Research & Analysis
The Aboriginal Practice Group has a wealth of experience
in undertaking small and national scale policy-related research and analysis
projects. This includes environmental scanning and analysis; analytical,
statistical and on-line research; facilitation of policy work-outs and
think tanks; federal-provincial strategic evaluations and consultations;
and collaboration with Senior Management in forging new policy directions.
Some recent projects include:
• INAC / Assembly of First Nations Social
Policy Framework; (case study)
• Self-Government Policy Directorate Guidelines development
on Membership & Citizenship and Governance;
• Residential School Office Assessment of
Alternative Dispute Resolution Pilot Projects; (case study)
• Privy Council Office Study on Métis and Off Reserve
issues;
• HRDC National Aboriginal Labour Market Strategy;
• Indian Oil & Gas Canada Business Practices analysis.
Facilitation
The Aboriginal Practice Group has facilitated a
number of collaborative and consensus building processes on leading edge
developments such as information and communication technologies (ICT)
and social reform. We are highly experienced in working alongside governments,
First Nations and third sectors to achieve results in joint strategies
and new policy or to change management agendas.
Recent initiatives include:
• Atlantic Policy Congress Political Accord
Social Reform Partnership;
• Health Canada – AFN National Partnership Accord First Nations
health strategy;
• Atlantic First Nations / Federal Partners Information & Communication
Technology Strategy.
Negotiation
Widely known for our success in negotiations, members
of the Aboriginal Practice Group have lead a variety of fiscal, federal-provincial
cost sharing, self-government and jurisdictional negotiations with First
Nations and provinces.
This experience includes:
• Nisga’a
Treaty negotiations;
• self-government
negotiations with the Meadow Lake Tribal Council in Saskatchewan, the
Sioux Valley First Nation in Manitoba, and the Mohawks of Kahnawake of
Akwesasne;
• BC treaty and self government cost sharing negotiations.
Collaboration & Partnership
More and more, collaboration and partnerships are
widely regarded as key underpinnings for effective Aboriginal governance.
Relationships between Aboriginal governments and organizations, federal
and provincial governments and the private sector are an important dimension
of the Aboriginal governance picture.
Aboriginal groups are using a wide variety of cooperative models serving
a diversity of purposes. They range from tripartite or multi-stakeholder
collaborative discussion forums, to joint ventures, to new social and
economic institutional arrangements. Fundamentally, building relationships
and capacity at the Aboriginal level have proven to be the largest determinants
of socio-economic success.
For example, the Aboriginal Practice Group provided strategic advice on
collaborative models and the facilitation of a partnership agreement on
cooperative policy and program development between Health Canada and the
Assembly of First Nations. We were also instrumental in facilitating the
National Health Partnership between Health Canada, First Nation &
Inuit Health Branch and the Assembly of First Nations, and the Canada-Alberta
Partnership Forum, which is an innovative Federal/Alberta/Aboriginal partnership
forum to enhance Aboriginal participation in the economy.
• Improving Networks Working Group Collaboration
& Partnership Case Studies; (case study)
Strategic Planning
KTA excels at strategic planning. The Aboriginal
Practice Group provides the insight and expertise to develop a plan to
meet your goals.
We have provided strategic policy and planning advice, research support,
and facilitation to assist the Atlantic Policy Congress and INAC to develop
a social reform vision, governance, and strategic plan for Atlantic First
Nation social reform under the Joint Political Accord between the Minister
of Indian Affairs and the APC Chiefs.
The Aboriginal Practice Group has also worked with INAC on an A-Base review,
providing advice on the strategic planning framework for the review, and
oversight responsibility for the analysis of historical expenditures,
identification of key challenges, and development of key resource planning
recommendations.
Recent Strategic Planning clients include:
• National Aboriginal
Achievement Foundation Board Policy and Governance Reform (case study)
• ImagineNATIVE
Film Festival Board Policy and Strategic Plan
• Atlantic Policy
Congress, Social Reform
Aboriginal Practice Team
Our core team members include:
Karen Beitel
Bill Stipdonk
Publications
The Aboriginal Practice Group is often at the forefront of Aboriginal developments in Canada. Our collaborative work with the Crossing Boundaries Aboriginal Voice initiative has spawned several publications, the first of which is Politics, Policy & Governance:Finding an Aboriginal Digital Voice the second of which is Politics, Policy & Governance:Aboriginal Culture in a Digital Age
Aboriginal Governance
in 2015 (Queen’s University)
An analysis of the state of Aboriginal governance
in Canada in 2015 under various globalization and Canadian federal state
scenarios.
Our Clients
Assembly of First Nations
Atlantic Policy Congress
Treaty 7 Tribal Council
Ogemawahj Tribal Council
Confederacy of Mainland Mi’kmaq
National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation
Province of Ontario Department of Education
Province of Ontario Department of Health
Alberta Federal Council
Canadian Institute for Health Information
Queens University
Health Canada
Privy Council Office
Department of Indian Affairs & Northern Development
Human Resource & Social Development Canada
Canadian Heritage
Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
Office of Indian Residential Schools
Indian Oil and Gas Canada
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