Deadline: 21-Apr-21
The Government of Canada is offering Education Partnerships Program (EPP) 2021-22 Structural Readiness Component National Program to support targeted activities that build the capacity of First Nations organizations to deliver First Nations education services, and to develop and implement transformative education systems and agreements that fully delegate responsibility for elementary and secondary education to First Nations to build an education system that responds to the needs of First Nations.
Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) supports the advancement of First Nations student achievement in First Nations, provincial and territorial schools through, the Education Partnerships Program (EPP). This program has 3 components:
- Partnership Establishment and Partnership Advancement
- Structural Readiness
- Regional Education Agreement.
Expected Results
The expected results of this component are:
- Strengthening the organizational capacity and governance of First Nations organizations for the delivery of educational services to First Nations schools
- Establishing a First Nations school model or system that responds to the needs of First Nations, to which interested First Nations communities fully delegate responsibility for all aspects of elementary and secondary education
- Establishing agreements with a provincial or territorial school board, including:
- agreements involving new approaches to school management by First Nations and First Nations organizations
- tuition or service agreements
- agreements that fully delegate administration of on-reserve First Nations schools by a provincial or territorial school board
Eligible Activities
- Strengthening capacity for governance and leadership
- Strengthening capacity for external relations
- Strengthening capacity for parental and community involvement
- Strengthening capacity for planning, performance and risk management
- Strengthening capacity for financial management
- Strengthening capacity for human resource management
- Strengthening capacity for information management and technology.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligibility to apply for structural readiness funding does not depend on having a partnership memorandum of understanding (MOU).
- Band councils, organizations designated by band councils and designated First Nations regional management organizations that currently undertake, as a key function, elementary and secondary support for a defined group of band-operated schools, are eligible to apply for structural readiness funding.
- Organizations designated by a band council and First Nations regional management organizations must meet the following criteria:
- have demonstrated support from First Nations communities or schools that undertake, as a key function, elementary and secondary education
- support groups of First Nations communities or schools
- agree to produce publicly available annual reports on structural readiness projects and expenditures
- Entities such as bands or First Nations organizations that are delivering education services under a self-government arrangement are not eligible to apply to the Structural Readiness component.
For more information, visit https://www.sac-isc.gc.ca/eng/1100100033760/1543408975080