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32 record(s) found with the tag "policy development" (multi-year projects are grouped):
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Navigating the New Arctic Collaboratory: Yellowknife Research Design
Principal Investigator: Poelzer , Greg
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5786. Arctic cities face multiple challenges from social and economic transformations, deteriorating infrastructure, a changing environment, and pressures on their governance systems. To respond effectively, mayors, city councils, agency leaders, local citizens and residents, and other stakeholders need a clear set of indi...
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5786. Arctic cities face multiple challenges from social and economic transformations, deteriorating infrastructure, a changing environment, and pressures on their governance systems. To respond effectively, mayors, city councils, agency leaders, local citizens and residents, and other stakeholders need a clear set of indi...
Homelessness in the Norhwest Territories: Opportunities for Evidence-Based Policymaking in Data-Scarce Rural & Remote Regions
Principal Investigator: Malik, Hunaifa
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5633. This research project is intended to produce a list of existing data characteristics or analysis methods that can be modified to address the unique barriers and opportunities for data-based policymaking in the NWT. This list is intended to identify best practices for conducting evidence-based policymaking in data-sca...
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5633. This research project is intended to produce a list of existing data characteristics or analysis methods that can be modified to address the unique barriers and opportunities for data-based policymaking in the NWT. This list is intended to identify best practices for conducting evidence-based policymaking in data-sca...
Exploring Repatriation and its Effects
Principal Investigator: Meloche, Chelsea H
Licensed Year(s): 2019
Summary: The dissertation project seeks to explore the effects of repatriation from the perspective of receiving communities and, more generally, consider the roles of repatriation for reconciliation efforts in Canada. I have four main objectives for this project: 1) to understand how the meaning and processes of repatriation change across different jurisdictions; 2) to identify any social, cultural, econo...
Licensed Year(s): 2019
Summary: The dissertation project seeks to explore the effects of repatriation from the perspective of receiving communities and, more generally, consider the roles of repatriation for reconciliation efforts in Canada. I have four main objectives for this project: 1) to understand how the meaning and processes of repatriation change across different jurisdictions; 2) to identify any social, cultural, econo...
Measuring the Developmental Health of Children in NWT
Principal Investigator: Janus, Magdalena
Licensed Year(s): 2019 2018
Summary: Annually collected Early Development Instrument (EDI) data provides information to guide decision-making, monitor trends and measure the impacts of changes to programs and services provided for children in the early years. The five domains of early childhood development measured by the EDI are predictive of school outcomes, including academic achievement, and so the data is also used by schools an...
Licensed Year(s): 2019 2018
Summary: Annually collected Early Development Instrument (EDI) data provides information to guide decision-making, monitor trends and measure the impacts of changes to programs and services provided for children in the early years. The five domains of early childhood development measured by the EDI are predictive of school outcomes, including academic achievement, and so the data is also used by schools an...
A comparative analysis of provincial/territorial harm reduction policymaking in Canada: Key informant interviews
Principal Investigator: Wild, T. Cameron
Licensed Year(s): 2017
Summary: The proposed research will undertake interviews with key informants to answer the following research questions: what is the current state of provincial/territorial harm reduction policy in Northwest Territories (NWT)?; what are key barriers and facilitators to the establishment of harm reduction services in NWT?; and how do key policy stakeholders frame the acceptability and scope of harm reductio...
Licensed Year(s): 2017
Summary: The proposed research will undertake interviews with key informants to answer the following research questions: what is the current state of provincial/territorial harm reduction policy in Northwest Territories (NWT)?; what are key barriers and facilitators to the establishment of harm reduction services in NWT?; and how do key policy stakeholders frame the acceptability and scope of harm reductio...
A Search for Sustainable Energy Future for the Northwest Territories: The Role of Policy Integration
Principal Investigator: Rayner, Jeremy
Licensed Year(s): 2015
Summary: This study intends to: 1) contribute to the theoretical understanding of the concepts of integrated policy design and identify the factors that facilitate or impede integrated policy-making in the Canadian context; 2) provide the insights on how NWT consensus government works, including implications for integrated policy-making; and, 3) identify existing barriers to renewable energy penetration...
Licensed Year(s): 2015
Summary: This study intends to: 1) contribute to the theoretical understanding of the concepts of integrated policy design and identify the factors that facilitate or impede integrated policy-making in the Canadian context; 2) provide the insights on how NWT consensus government works, including implications for integrated policy-making; and, 3) identify existing barriers to renewable energy penetration...
Examining Community Adaptation Readiness in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Northwest Territories
Principal Investigator: MacDonell, Hillary J.
Licensed Year(s): 2015
Summary: To examine community adaptation readiness in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region (ISR), Northwest Territories in order to identify trends in the adaptive readiness of communities in the ISR and provide recommendations to local and regional governments concerning existing gaps or barriers that may be hindering community readiness. The Principal Investigator will conduct informal phone interviews wi...
Licensed Year(s): 2015
Summary: To examine community adaptation readiness in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region (ISR), Northwest Territories in order to identify trends in the adaptive readiness of communities in the ISR and provide recommendations to local and regional governments concerning existing gaps or barriers that may be hindering community readiness. The Principal Investigator will conduct informal phone interviews wi...
Devolution of Power and Aboriginal Education in Canada: The Impact of Structure and Jurisdiction
Principal Investigator: Estok, Erin
Licensed Year(s): 2013
Summary: Aims of this research are to make an academic contribution to the existing literature and ongoing consultation processes that will inform the First Nations Education Act, slated to be tabled in Parliament in Sept. 2014. Methodology: The project will compare educational outcomes in three Aboriginal communities at varying points on the self-governance continuum. This project will examine both...
Licensed Year(s): 2013
Summary: Aims of this research are to make an academic contribution to the existing literature and ongoing consultation processes that will inform the First Nations Education Act, slated to be tabled in Parliament in Sept. 2014. Methodology: The project will compare educational outcomes in three Aboriginal communities at varying points on the self-governance continuum. This project will examine both...
Health Systems Performance in Circumpolar Regions: Can Regional Comparisons Support Policy and Stimulate Improvement?
Principal Investigator: Chatwood, Susan
Licensed Year(s): 2013
Summary: This thesis aims to explore the mechanisms that influence health system performance through a stewardship lens that provides insight as to how ministries, affiliated health sectors and regions not only carry out performance measures, but also hold accountability and make improvements. Understandings around the performance of health systems in circumpolar regions will be addressed through a case...
Licensed Year(s): 2013
Summary: This thesis aims to explore the mechanisms that influence health system performance through a stewardship lens that provides insight as to how ministries, affiliated health sectors and regions not only carry out performance measures, but also hold accountability and make improvements. Understandings around the performance of health systems in circumpolar regions will be addressed through a case...
The Environmental Assessment Process of Canadian ‘Frontier’ Oil and Gas
Principal Investigator: Fraser, Gail S
Licensed Year(s): 2012
Summary: The research will provide 1) a systematic pan-Canadian analysis and critique of problematic environmental assessment trends (for example, the lack of publicly available environmental data, inconsistent environmental effects monitoring programs, difficulties addressing cumulative effects, and ineffective public consultation), and 2) practical policy solutions to these trends in the form of "best pr...
Licensed Year(s): 2012
Summary: The research will provide 1) a systematic pan-Canadian analysis and critique of problematic environmental assessment trends (for example, the lack of publicly available environmental data, inconsistent environmental effects monitoring programs, difficulties addressing cumulative effects, and ineffective public consultation), and 2) practical policy solutions to these trends in the form of "best pr...
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