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Small communities, whatever their location, share many of the same dilemmas, issues, and qualities. Particularly in the case of Aboriginal communities, that includes an indomitable will to survive. But this can prove an uphill struggle against unemployment, outmigration, and social upheaval. The following items from The CED Digital Bookshop explore how Aboriginal communities (especially in Canada) can, must, and do use strategies of community economic development (CED) to increase their command over their own future. A click on any title will forward you to the Bookshop to place your order. (Most items cost under $10. Many are free.) Nothing here that fits the bill? There's plenty more. Drop us a line to let us know just what you're after. 1. Facing Facts Conventional economic strategies are inadequate to breaking the barriers to enterprise and capital accumulation surrounding many Aboriginal communities. CED, by contrast, is a cost-effective means of building local institutions that can marshal and/or co-ordinate critical resources and initiatives. 2. Pikangikum at the Crossroads To carve out a key role in the management and stewardship of its Traditional Territory, Pik is creating a development strategy based on the Elders' intimacy with the land and their grandchildren's facility with the computer. 3. Economic Development on the Moapa Paiute Reservation In Nevada, the Moapa Paiute have been singular in their ability to implement successful economic development strategies with small amounts of resources and within relatively short time frames. The secret? Moapa combines its labour with outside resources to create a multiplier effect throughout the reservation economy. 4. The Missing Link: Dynamic Integration of CED Training & Planning How customized training helped the member Bands of Nisga'a Tribal Council in northwestern B.C. build their individual and collective capacity for economic development. 5. Development Corporation Basics Aboriginal governments already have a great many responsibilities and limited resources with which to meet them. How then can they get involved in running businesses? Here's a step-by-step method for structuring the development corporation: a singularly successful mechanism for business development and management. Five First Nations on Vancouver Island have launched a development corporation that is to act as both a developer and a steward of Clayoquot Sound. Here is the organizational and strategic infrastructure that Ma-Mook Development Corporation is developing to remain sound ecologically, financially, and politically. Traces the evolution of three community economic development organizations in the Eastern Arctic, and assesses their effectiveness in terms of the six key attributes of best CED practice: a comprehensive and strategic approach to six key CED functions; clear governance and accountability framework; community mobilization; use of external resources; an outcome orientation; and leaders who have with social entrepreneurial qualities. 8. Subsistence Hunting in a Global Economy Resource co-management requires that participants extend their concept of management beyond the conventional paradigm that separates humans from nature. Case examples from northern Canada indicate the scope and potential of co-management in strategies of community economic development. This workbook and the 5-day workshop it supports demystify the venture development process: the procedures through which communities can identify business opportunities, select the most promising - and then plan and implement the ventures. The result is viable enterprises that are sound from the perspective of both the entrepreneur and the community. Joint venture negotiation is a 5-stage process, involving the "homework," establishing an agenda, negotiating the Heads of Agreement, the Shareholders Agreement, and the Management Agreement. Critical to effective joint venture negotiation is knowing what you can bring to the negotiation table, and what you hope to gain from the negotiation - in other words, the benefits of the deal. 11. Anatomy of a Joint Venture The negotiating process through which Tr'on dek Hwechin'in and Loki Gold Corporation clarified the benefits they could bring - and could expect to receive - from a gold mine development. 12. Northern Lights - & Action Communities and governments in northern Saskatchewan are beginning to see the connection between health, employment, culture, and the environment, and to develop a new capacity for intersectoral co-operation & co-ordination. 13. A Nation's Economic Catalyst Here's that same love of place, but now from an Aboriginal standpoint, and with a keen strategic edge. Hupacasath, a small First Nation with a small city on Vancouver Island, is figuring out how to mine skills, resources, and connections from each business or project, and invest them in the next. Check out these other Hotlists! |
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