11 record(s) found in the location "Sahtu Settlement Area" (multi-year projects are grouped):
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Governing Energy System Change in the Canadian Arctic: Alternative Sources of Innovation in Communities?
Principal Investigator: Mallett, Alexandra
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5165. Along with community partners, the project will seek to determine: 1) the extent to which changes are occurring with respect to electricity generation and use at the community level in three communities in NWT; 2) how, what and who is involved in the governance of energy within communities and how this is evolving; an...


Edited Volume on Best Practices in Modern Treaty Implementation in Canada
Principal Investigator: Irlbacher-Fox, Stephanie
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4933. The goal of this project is to create an edited volume (a book) on best practices in modern treaty implementation from Indigenous Governments across Canada. The research team want this volume to be a well researched, accessibly written, and academically rigorous series of case studies of treaty implementation methods ...


Promoting Home and Self-Governance: Housing as an Active Site of Engagement in Fort Good Hope
Principal Investigator: Pugsley, Aimee Louise
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4867. The purpose of this research is to meet the research needs of the community of Fort Good Hope as the Principal Investigator (PI) explore in collaboration with the K’asho Got’ine Housing Society (KGHS) how their community-led social housing program can become sustainable. The complex geographies of the housing crisis i...


Tracking Change... Local and Traditional Knowledge in Watershed Governance
Principal Investigator: Parlee, Brenda L
Licensed Year(s): 2019 2019 2019 2017 2016
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4369. Tracking Change: Local and Traditional Knowledge in Watershed Governance is a six-year research program funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and led by the University of Alberta, Mackenzie River Basin Board, and the Government of the Northwest Territories in collaboration with many other value...


Sustainable Water Governance and Indigenous Law Project
Principal Investigator: Bakker, Karen
Licensed Year(s): 2018 2017
Summary: The goal is to enhance effective, equitable Indigenous co-governance of water resources through pursuing five objectives: 1)Critically conceptualize the potential for reciprocal coordination of, and complementarity between, evolving common ("Western") and Indigenous water law and governance frameworks; 2)Develop innovative methods for co-researching Indigenous Water Governance, based on collabor...


Assessing regulators' information needs to make decisions regarding cumulative effects under the MVRMA
Principal Investigator: Noble, Bram F
Licensed Year(s): 2018 2017 2016
Summary: This project will determine what information Regulators require about cumulative effects or conditions in order to make informed decisions regarding development impacts to water quality in the NWT, and whether and how that information is, or can be, provided through NWT Cumulative Impacts Monitoring Program (CIMP) or other agencies responsible for monitoring. The objectives are as follows: 1)...


Mapping, Language and Stories in Deline
Principal Investigator: Simmons, Deborah L
Licensed Year(s): 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010
Summary: As the community makes the transition to self-government, there has been an increased interest in language documentation through stories, song, and concepts of place in order to better understand what Dene government means. Governance thus forms one focal point of this research. The research team are particularly interested in the areas of variation, change and continuity in language, stories, son...


Can Dene Ways of Resolving Conflicts and Building Peace Inform Governing Structures?
Principal Investigator: Erasmus, Lila M
Licensed Year(s): 2016
Summary: The objective of the project is to examine how the Dene resolve conflict within their community and how these principles could inform the development of their governing structures is the basis of this research project. The main research question is: By what principles, processes and mechanisms do the Dene resolve conflicts and build peace within their communities? Sub questions include: Are D...


Building Human Resources Capacity in Aboriginal Governments (through the GNWT)
Principal Investigator: Gowans, Grant W
Licensed Year(s): 2014
Summary: The product of this research will be a paper that outlines the current situation with respect to the level of Human Resource (HR) Capacity support offered by the Government of the Northwest Territories to Aboriginal organizations. Furthermore, strengths, deficiencies, and gaps of this HR Capacity support with respect to what is required for Aboriginal organizations to successfully transition to su...


Preparing for Deline Self Government: Mapping the Enabling/Disabling Environment
Principal Investigator: Irlbacher-Fox, Stephanie
Licensed Year(s): 2009
Summary: This licence is being issued for the scientific research application no. 980. The objectives of the research are: 1) to gain a greater understanding among community administrators and members of how external agencies on the effectiveness of community governments; 2) increase awareness of how systemic obstructing and facilitating factors may be approached to create an enabling environment for in...


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