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Capacity Building
The Northern Ecosystem Initiative (NEI) is committed to
building and enhancing the capacity of Canadians to address ecosystem
priorities in the North. Capacity building involves:
- Supporting northern peoples and communities in their efforts to
initiate new research initiatives, evaluate the current state of knowledge,
utilize new tools, and better manage northern ecosystems or influence
policy and decision-making at the regional, national, and international
level;
- Being responsive to community concerns or to those of regional organizations,
including co-management boards;
- Actively involving both northerners and the science community in
the setting of project objectives and design, project implementation,
and communication of project results;
- Utilizing local and/or traditional knowledge systems and methodologies
in combination with western science knowledge systems and methodologies;
- Including innovative and appropriate tools and approaches for communicating
results to northern communities and organizations, as well as scientific
agencies and key policy and decision-making bodies at the regional,
national, or international level; and
- Sustainability - Will project activities continue after NEI funding
ends? This could include improved knowledge and/or skills in northern
people or their organizations; the development of new and beneficial
tools; and education, training or employment opportunities for northerners.
Projects and activities supported by NEI must involve elements of capacity building.
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