NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Regions: Dehcho Region, South Slave Region

Tags: social sciences, traditional knowledge, socio-economics, land use

Objective(s): To build up baseline reports on the social/economic and land and resource use conditions in the research area and to compile a baseline report on Traditional Knowledge for future consideration in the Environmental Assessment.

Project Description: The objectives of this research are to build up baseline reports on the social/economic and land and resource use conditions in the research area. The objectives of the Traditional Knowledge (TK) research is to compile a baseline report on TK for future consideration in the Environmental Assessment Socioeconomic Research: Length of interviews - typically lasting approximately an hour, longer interviews would be confirmed in advance out of respect for people's schedules. Type of Interviews - Personal interviews are carried out wherever possible, and if people are not available, then telephone interviews would be employed if acceptable to the participant. Email, phone, or mail follow up would be employed to clarify information or address any pertinent matters. Some focus groups may be employed if it is felt that additional information could be obtained, and where participants are interested, that could collect group information. Open houses could be employed to raise general awareness about the project or to solicit, non-sensitive information that participants would be willing to share in a public arena. Interview Methodology: One on one and focus groups will be undertaken with a clearly laid out and easily understandable format. They will be driven by standard methodology, clearly laid out processes, prior and informed consent, explanation as to the purpose, methodology, information/confidentiality management, and final disposition of the information gathered. Intended participants are those involved in various roles within the community, such as community/territory governance, community health and well-being, policing, education, employers, land and resource users, hunters, gatherers, trappers, guide-outfitters, commercial recreation operators. Recruitment of individuals for the interviews will be carried out by web search and referral. TK Research: The research team will contact the communities to see if they would prefer to conduct the TK Study on a person by person interview method, or if they would prefer to participate in a workshop in which an overview of the public domain TK information was presented that was relevant to the Project and then seek input, including both group and individual interviews to obtain any additional information or to correct the understanding of existing information. People participating would be paid honoraria and the researchers would very closely with the communities to ensure the appropriate people were involved. Community Field Researchers may be retained, where possible and required. Capacity training and development will be incorporated into the work plan. Public meetings for information exchange and project status updates will be held at milestone points of the project. Information will also be provided on Seabridge's company website. Additional communication through letter, email, company website, and phone can be made to identified government, stakeholder and interested parties. The fieldwork for this study will be conducted from May 1, 2012 to December 31, 2012.