Project aims to boost the self-determination, sustainability of Indigenous communitiesA University of Victoria-based research team has received a $2.5 million grant that will help Indigenous communities assess development proposals on their lands. Those members will co-create customized sustainability assessment systems (SAS) with the goal of enhancing the capacity of Indigenous organizations as they build environmental stewardship programs and evaluate development opportunities, a UVic news release said. The sustainability assessment systems evaluate the potential effects of a proposal by looking at four areas of well-being: economic, environmental, cultural and community. Indigenous Peoples have a right to use impact assessment systems that integrate Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing, the release said. and Canada enshrining the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) into law.

Source: Daily Nation September 01, 2023 23:06 UTC