Research

Introduction With partner Yuneŝit’in First Nation, the Indigenous Home-Lands Initiative (IHL) at Ecotrust Canada has developed a tool to support project design, monitoring, and evaluation within the community of Yuneŝit’in and across Tŝilhqot’in territory. The tool is designed to serve as a resource to generate new project ideas as well as improve accountability by offering a simple, intuitive, and appropriate way for staff and decision-makers within the community to recollect community priorities and goals, and to cross-check plans, activities, and outcomes against a set of values and metrics that have been established by and for the community. For Yuneŝit’in and other Indigenous communities, the relationship to land, water, animals, and each other, beyond purely economic means, is of immense importance ...