Indigenous Reconciliation Strategy Services

The vendor is required to provide indigenous reconciliation strategy services to advancing indigenous reconciliation within organizations and indigenous consultation and engagement to develop an indigenous reconciliation strategy.
- The strategy should identify barriers and opportunities to building positive, collaborative relationships with local indigenous communities, organizations, and individuals and create a strategy for implementing commission recommendations that fall within municipal jurisdiction, as well as legislative and policy requirements related to indigenous-municipal relations, that support reconciliation in city.
- Objectives of the strategy are to:
•    Identify actions within municipal jurisdiction and capacity arising from the 2015 commission final report
•    Provide policy and program recommendations to improve municipal-indigenous relations and service delivery to indigenous people living in the municipality, including staff training
•    Provide strategic actions to improve the visibility of indigenous presence in city and celebrate and honors indigenous culture and traditions
•    Identify actions to support economic development opportunities for the indigenous community in city. 
•    Identify long term strategies for ensuring the sustainability and renewal of the framework that supports the ongoing and evolving relationship between the city and indigenous communities.
- Develop the strategy will include the following:
•    Review of the existing and current city policy, strategic frameworks and programming to identify activities that both support and hinder reconciliation 
•    External environmental scan to examine current best practices and strategies in state and municipalities 
•    Development of a framework for engagement and work with indigenous communities that respects and integrates indigenous ways of doing and knowing 
•    In-person and digital consultation and engagement with indigenous governments, organizations, and individuals to identify challenges and priorities for local indigenous communities 
•    Broad public consultation through in-person and digital engagement using the city’s jump in platform 
•    Review of existing city staff capacity to implement reconciliation-related recommendations as well as capacity within indigenous communities to work with the city on different initiatives 
•    Compilation and analysis of data gathered through review of city initiatives and community consultation to shape policy and programming recommendations 
•    Development of a final strategy that includes recommendations and starting actions for advancing reconciliation within city.
- The final strategy document should include the following:
•    Strategic recommendations and rationale 
•    Detailed implementation plan that identifies short- and medium-term priorities, as well as long-term recommendations for review and renewals 
•    Budgetary and staffing implications based on existing capacity and programming
•    System of performance metrics and reporting measures 
•    Set of appendices that include all data, research, and analysis and a summary of indigenous and non-indigenous consultation and engagement.

- Contract Period/Term: 1 year
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: November 17, 2025