RECONCILIATION: MOVING FORWARD TOGETHER - OVERVIEW
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Criteria • PRO (proposed, emerging project, not yet submitted to Executive Committee) • Initiated (proposed and for which there is a degree of public awareness either by announcement, news release, public consultation, municipal permitting process in progress, etc.) • PDF (preliminary development funding) • PPA (provisional project approval/In development) • FPA (final project approval/under construction) • COM (committed, project approved by ExCom) • Active (project currently housing people, ready to house, or undergoing renovation) Nation, community, or organization has an existing operating agreement in place with BC Housing or the Aboriginal Housing Management Association
Existing Operating or Program Agreement
The purpose of conducting interviews was to collect in-depth, qualitative information on BC Housing’s past, current, and future relationships with Indigenous Nations, communities, and organizations and efforts to improve these relationships. The input collected included views and perspectives regarding the strengths and weaknesses of BC Housing’s current approaches to reconciliation, as well as suggestions and opportunities for working within a reconciliation framework. All interviews were conducted over the phone. TWC shared interview summaries with each participant following the interviews for their review and validation. To conduct the interviews and phone discussions, TWC completed the following steps: • Developed interview guides for Indigenous Nation/communities/organizations, staff, and Board members in collaboration with the BC Housing Steering Committee (Appendix E); • Coordinated with BC Housing who scheduled the interviews; • Tested the interview guides with seven BC Housing staff; • Conducted the interviews with the three engagement groups; • Prepared summary notes and shared these with participants for validation; and, • Tabulated and analyzed the data obtained from the interviews. Our engagement methods evolved over the course of the project to consider potential risks and benefits associated with each method. At the start of the project, our team had discussed a combination of in-person and virtual engagement methods, including phone discussions, focus groups, and regional listening sessions. Also, the presence of COVID-19 impacted the ability to have in-person meetings. In the end, interviews were chosen due to the following benefits: • The potential ability to reach out to more Indigenous Nations, communities, and organizations; • Enabling open discussion because the conversations are “private” and not held in a group setting; • Encouraging a more individualized approach to information collection; • Ability to engage in conversation about reconciliation to inform the Strategy in a meaningful way; and, • Creating an opportunity to find out from Indigenous people how they would like to be further engaged on reconciliation.
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