FCM's New First Nations-Municipal Community Infrastructure Partnership Project (CIPP) Seeks Your Feedback

CIPP is currently conducting a short survey about First Nations and municipal relationships regarding service agreements. To understand if these are important issues in your municipality—and how FCM may fulfill your needs—your participation in a short survey is requested. Click here for the survey. FIRST NATIONS–MUNICIPAL CIPP Who? The Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) is cooperating with Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) on the First Nations—Municipal Community Infrastructure Partnership Project (CIPP). This new project aims to foster relationships between First Nations and adjacent municipalities across Canada. It encourages mutually beneficial service agreements, particularly those pertaining to water and wastewater infrastructure. What? The project is in the preliminary research stage: identifying existing agreements across Canada, studying lessons learned, creating case studies and completing a first draft toolkit. How? Through the toolkit, the project will build capacity for First Nations—municipal infrastructure projects. The toolkit will include case studies, templates, checklists, model agreements, best practices and other useful resources for First Nations and municipal governments. CIPP will also host partnership training workshops across Canada based on this toolkit. The workshops will address relationship building and information sharing as they relate to community infrastructure and service agreements. Although workshop host communities have not been selected, we hope to provide at least one workshop in each region that indicates a need for training.