Take meaningful steps towards reconciliation with Indigenous communities.
We specialize in guiding Industries, Governments and Organizations through the development, implementation and ongoing refinement of Reconciliation Action Plans (RAPs).
A well-crafted RAP is a powerful tool for fostering meaningful relationships with Indigenous
communities and driving real change within your organization.
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Reconciliation
Action Plans (RAPs)
We believe that reconciliation is a journey that requires dedication, honesty, and collaboration.
- Demonstrate your commitment to reconciliation
- Enhance cultural awareness and competence
- Strengthen partnerships with Indigenous communities
- Improve your corporate social responsibility profile
- Lay the groundwork for future initiatives like Progressive Aboriginal Relations (PAR) certification
We applaud you for undertaking this important and challenging work.
Charting Your Path to Meaningful Reconciliation.
In today's evolving landscape, organizations across Canada are recognizing the critical importance of fostering genuine, respectful relationships with Indigenous Communities.
A Reconciliation Action Plan serves as a crucial step towards this goal, laying out a roadmap for engagement, reflection, and meaningful change within your organization.
As a foundational framework, a well-crafted RAP not only supports future initiatives such as Progressive Aboriginal Relations (PAR) certification but also fosters genuine dialogue, policy reform, and sustainable practices.
We're committed to guiding you through every step of this important journey.
Crafting Impactful Reconciliation Action Plans.
We specialize in guiding Industries, Governments and Organizations through the development, implementation and ongoing refinement of Reconciliation Action Plans.
Developing a Reconciliation Action Plan is a significant undertaking, but it's also an incredibly rewarding process that can transform your organization and its relationships with Indigenous peoples.
More than just a statement of intent, a well-crafted RAP provides a structured approach to embedding reconciliation principles into your organizational culture, policies, and practices.
You have a huge opportunity to influence how many understand and approach reconciliation and support communities in being prosperous, sustainable, and equitable.
Prosperous, Sustainable and Equitable.
Grounded in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's 94 Calls to Action, our approach supports the creation of Indigenous Relations Policies, Engagement Strategies, and bespoke RAPs tailored to local needs.
Key Elements of Our Approach:
Our approach to developing RAPs is tailored to the unique needs and contexts of our clients, ensuring that each plan is not merely a checkbox exercise but a transformative process.
For Organizations, Institutions, Governments, Municipalities on their reconciliation journey.
Show stakeholders that your dedication to reconciliation goes beyond words to concrete actions.
Build trust and understanding with Indigenous communities, creating opportunities for collaboration and mutual benefit.
Equip your team with the knowledge and skills to work effectively and respectfully with Indigenous peoples.
Identify and address systemic barriers, creating a more inclusive and equitable workplace.
For Organizations, Institutions, Governments, Municipalities on their reconciliation journey.
Demonstrate Authentic Commitment:
Show stakeholders that your dedication to reconciliation goes beyond words to concrete actions.
Foster Meaningful Relationships:
Build trust and understanding with Indigenous communities, creating opportunities for collaboration and mutual benefit.
Enhance Cultural Competence:
Equip your team with the knowledge and skills to work effectively and respectfully with Indigenous peoples.
Drive Organizational Change:
Identify and address systemic barriers, creating a more inclusive and equitable workplace.
Customized Approach:
We understand that one size does not fit all when it comes to reconciliation.
Our team works closely with yours to tailor a phased approach that aligns with your organization's values, goals, and community relationships.
Comprehensive Engagement:
Honest reflection and meaningful engagement are at the heart of our process.
From kick-off meetings to scoping workshops, we facilitate open dialogue and collaboration to ensure that diverse perspectives are heard and valued.
Expert Guidance:
Our phased approach ensures thorough engagement and understanding before proceeding, ensuring that your RAP is comprehensive and impactful.
Strategic Planning:
Our experienced team assists in drafting a comprehensive RAP that includes key actions, commitments, goals, and timelines.
We emphasize specificity and accountability, ensuring that your plan drives tangible change at all levels of your organization.
Cultural Sensitivity:
Recognizing the importance of cultural sensitivity and authenticity, we offer guidance on engaging Indigenous Nations, Communities and Peoples respecting traditional knowledge, and incorporating Indigenous perspectives into your RAP.
Ongoing Support:
Our commitment to reconciliation doesn't end with the completion of your RAP.
We provide ongoing support for implementation, monitoring, and evaluation, helping you stay accountable to your commitments and adapt to evolving needs.
Our Comprehensive RAP Development Process:
Our approach to developing RAPs is tailored to the unique needs and contexts of our clients, ensuring that each plan is not merely a checkbox exercise but a transformative process reflecting your specific context, challenges, and aspirations.
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Customized
Approach:
We understand that one size does not fit all when it comes to reconciliation.
Our team works closely with yours to tailor a phased approach that aligns with your organization's values, goals, and community relationships.
Comprehensive
Engagement:
Honest reflection and meaningful engagement are at the heart of our process.
From kick-off meetings to scoping workshops, we facilitate open dialogue and collaboration to ensure that diverse perspectives are heard and valued.
Expert
Guidance:
Our phased approach ensures thorough engagement and understanding before proceeding, ensuring that your RAP is comprehensive and impactful.
Strategic
Planning:
Our experienced team assists in drafting a comprehensive RAP that includes key actions, commitments, goals, and timelines.
We emphasize specificity and accountability, ensuring that your plan drives tangible change at all levels of your organization.
Cultural
Sensitivity:
Recognizing the importance of cultural sensitivity and authenticity, we offer guidance on engaging Indigenous Nations, Communities and Peoples respecting traditional knowledge, and incorporating Indigenous perspectives into your RAP.
Ongoing
Support:
Our commitment to reconciliation doesn't end with the completion of your RAP.
We provide ongoing support for implementation, monitoring, and evaluation, helping you stay accountable to your commitments and adapt to evolving needs.
Our RAP Development Process.
Initial Consultation:
We meet with your team to understand your goals and current relationship with Indigenous communities.
Customized Approach:
We cultivate equitable relationships and shared benefits, ensuring that our work contributes to the long-term prosperity of Indigenous communities.
Collaborative Workshops:
Our facilitated sessions help define roles, engage stakeholders, and identify key focus areas.
Comprehensive Engagement:
We ensure diverse perspectives are included through thoughtful internal and external outreach.
Monitoring and Evaluation:
We help you track progress and adapt your approach over time.
Strategic Planning:
We assist in drafting a RAP with specific actions, commitments, timelines, and accountability measures.
Implementation Support:
Our team provides ongoing guidance as you put your RAP into action.
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Our Comprehensive RAP Development Process:
At ICE, we understand that each organization's reconciliation journey is unique. Our tailored approach ensures your RAP reflects your specific context, challenges, and aspirations.
- In-depth discussions to understand your current relationships with Indigenous communities
- Evaluation of existing policies, practices, and initiatives
- Assessment of existing policies through a reconciliation lens, identifying areas for improvement.
- Creation of a phased approach aligned with your organizational capacity and goals
- Definition of scope, timelines, and resource requirements
- Facilitated sessions with leadership, employees, and key stakeholders
- Honest reflection on past practices and future aspirations
- Identification of priority areas and potential actions
- Analysis of successful RAPs in your industry
- Integration of latest reconciliation frameworks and Indigenous engagement principle
- Crafting of vision statements, commitments, and measurable targets
- Development of specific, time-bound actions across key focus areas
- Creation of accountability and reporting mechanisms
- Development of detailed rollout strategies
- Training and capacity building for key personnel
- Guidance on internal and external communication strategies
- Detailed timelines, accountability frameworks, and regular updates to ensure ongoing relevance and impact.
- Customized training sessions to build capacity in Indigenous relations and foster a culture of reconciliation within your organization.
- Facilitated feedback sessions with internal and external stakeholders
- Incorporation of Indigenous perspectives and priorities
- Iterative refinement to ensure broad buy-in and support
- Regular check-ins and progress assessments- Data collection and analysis to measure impact
- Adaptive management support to address challenges and leverage successes
Customized RAPs*
We believe in RAPs that drive meaningful change, not checkboxes. Each plan is meticulously crafted to align with your organization's values and commitments.
Customized Approach*
Our team works closely with yours to tailor a phased approach that aligns with your organization's values, goals, and community relationships.
Expert Guidance*
Our phased approach ensures thorough engagement and understanding before proceeding, ensuring that your RAP is comprehensive and impactful.
Collaborative Workshops*
We facilitate workshops to define roles, engage stakeholders, and identify key focus areas, ensuring broad organizational buy-in and effective implementation.
*Comprehensive Engagement
Honest reflection and meaningful engagement are at the heart of our process. From kick-off meetings to scoping workshops, we facilitate open dialogue and collaboration to ensure that diverse perspectives are heard and valued.
*Strategic Planning
Our experienced team assists in drafting a comprehensive RAP that includes key actions, commitments, goals, and timelines. We emphasize specificity and accountability, ensuring that your plan drives tangible change at all levels of your organization.
*Cultural Sensitivity
Recognizing the importance of cultural sensitivity and authenticity, we offer guidance on engaging Indigenous Nations, Communities and Peoples respecting traditional knowledge, and incorporating Indigenous perspectives into your RAP.
1. Kick-off Meeting:
We begin with a collaborative kick-off meeting to define the purpose, objectives, and roles for your RAP journey.
3. Preparation and Delivery:
Our team conducts thorough research and engagement activities to develop a tailored RAP that reflects your organization's values and priorities.
2. Scoping Workshop:
Through a facilitated workshop, we identify key stakeholders, review existing policies, and explore opportunities for reconciliation within your organization.
4. Launch and Implementation:
We support you in gaining internal approvals, launching your RAP, and implementing actionable strategies for reconciliation.
Who it's for:
*Indigenous communities and organizations
*Governments and corporate entities seeking to engage with Indigenous stakeholders
Outcomes:
*Enhanced community participation and inclusion in projects
*Culturally respectful engagement processes
*Improved project outcomes through Indigenous inclusion
Benefits:
*Tailored engagement strategies that respect Indigenous cultures and values
*Building trust and fostering long-term relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous stakeholders
Key Elements of an Effective
Reconciliation Action Plan:
We're committed to guiding you through every step of this important journey.
Contact us today to learn more about how The ICE Team can support your organization's reconciliation journey.
Crafting Impactful Reconciliation Action Plans.
Grounded in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's 94 Calls to Action, our approach supports the creation of Indigenous Relations Policies, Engagement Strategies, and bespoke RAPs tailored to local needs and the unique needs and contexts of our clients, ensuring that each plan is not merely a checkbox exercise but a transformative process.
The truth must come before reconciliation. — We must acknowledge the past and then plan together for the future.
Why Your
Organization Needs a RAP:
Show stakeholders that your dedication to reconciliation goes beyond words to concrete actions.
Build trust and understanding with Indigenous communities, creating opportunities for collaboration and mutual benefit.
Equip your team with the knowledge and skills to work effectively and respectfully with Indigenous peoples.
Identify and address systemic barriers, creating a more inclusive and equitable workplace.
Respond to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action, particularly Call to Action 92 for the corporate sector.
Lay the groundwork for certifications like Progressive Aboriginal Relations (PAR).
We recognize the potential for economic reconciliation and closing the socio-economic gap for Indigenous communities through business creation, strategic collaboration and organizational excellence.
Why Choose ICE for Your Reconciliation Action Plan Journey?
Supporting Industry, Organizations, Institutions, Associations and Municipalities in the creation of Indigenous Relations Policies, Engagement Strategies and bespoke Reconciliation Action Plan's tailored to local needs.
Deep
Expertise:
Our team brings extensive experience in Indigenous relations, reconciliation frameworks, and organizational change management.
Holistic
Perspective:
We consider all aspects of your organization, from HR policies to procurement practices, to create comprehensive strategies.
Measurable
Impact:
We help you track and demonstrate the tangible outcomes of your reconciliation efforts.
Tailored
Approach:
We recognize that one size doesn't fit all. Your RAP will be customized to your unique context and aspirations.
Ongoing
Support:
Our commitment doesn't end with RAP delivery. We provide continued guidance throughout your reconciliation journey.
Authenticity
Commitment:
We emphasize meaningful change over tokenistic gestures, ensuring your RAP drives genuine transformation.
Extensive
Networks:
Our strong relationships with Indigenous communities and leaders enrich the RAP development process.
RAPs should not be approached as a checkbox exercise or be generic. They need to be specific to your organization and regularly tracked and updated.
Join us in advancing reconciliation through strategic planning, genuine engagement & actionable steps towards a more inclusive future.
Reconciliation may include Political Reconciliation, Institutional Reconciliation and Economic Reconciliation — all of which you can influence through your members and leading by example.
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Progressive Aboriginal Relations (PAR) Support
Concidering applying for a Progressive Aboriginal Relations (PAR) certification from the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business (CCAB)?
We recommend that a RAP is a good first step to support future potential applications for PAR as it will lay out a number of things that CCAB will ask as part of the application.
CCAB PROGRESSIVE ABORIGINAL RELATIONS (PAR) SUPPORT
Supporting Industry and government in preparing, auditing and updating RAPs, as well as supporting preparation to apply for PAR.
Your journey to obtain Progressive Aboriginal Relations, a certification program that confirms corporate performance in Aboriginal relations.
This process needs to be approached through honest reflection, research, and feedback from engagement.
A good RAP is supported at all levels in an organization, creates change in policy and behaviour, and is specific to local need
Concidering applying for a Progressive Aboriginal Relations (PAR) certification from the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business (CCAB)?
We recommend that a RAP is a good first step to support future potential applications for PAR as it will lay out a number of things that CCAB will ask as part of the application.
The specialist firm to help with Reconciliation Efforts. -
Endeavouring to unlearn colonial mindsets and practices, grow in knowledge, and adapt ways of working by partnering with an Indigenous consultancy to conduct a Reconciliation audit of polices, practices, programs, and culture and the assessment will surface areas for change and strengthening as well as contribute to the development of a Reconciliation framework and strategy. and Cultural Capacity Building.
Reconciliation Audit
- Endeavouring to:unlearn colonial mindsets and practices, grow in knowledge, and adapt ways of working contribute to the development of a Reconciliation framework and strategy. partnering with an Indigenous consultancy to conduct a Reconciliation audit of: polices, practices, programs, and culture and.
Reconciliation framework and strategy. and Cultural Capacity Building.
Enable an organization-wide Reconciliation vision, understanding, and momentum through: Developing a reconciliation strategy, Building organizational and staff capacity to integrate the principles, considerations, and practices of Reconciliation in your work, and Fostering meaningful mutually beneficial relationships with Indigenous leaders, communities, and organizations.
Industry, Organizations, Institutions, Associations and Municipalities.
Take meaningful steps towards reconciliation with Indigenous communities.
Supporting the creation of Indigenous Relations Policies, Engagement Strategies and bespoke Reconciliation Action Plan's tailored to local needs.
We recognize the potential for economic reconciliation and closing the socio-economic gap for Indigenous communities through business creation, strategic collaboration and organizational excellence.
Reconciliation may include Political Reconciliation, Institutional Reconciliation and Economic Reconciliation — all of which you can influence through your members and leading by example.
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About us
Ready to start your RAP journey?
We help organizations create comprehensive strategies for engaging with Indigenous communities, aligning corporate goals with Indigenous values and aspirations.
Creating sustainable economic strategies that leverage community strengths and resources.
Our team reviews existing policies and develops new ones to ensure they respect Indigenous rights and promote reconciliation.
Developing actionable plans to advance reconciliation efforts within organizations and communities.
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Contact us today to learn how ICE can guide your organization towards more meaningful relationships with Indigenous communities and tangible steps towards reconciliation.