Education Partnerships Program in Canada

Deadline: 19-Jun-22

Applications are now open for the Education Partnerships Program to support:

• Collaboration between First Nations, provincial and territorial ministries or departments of education and Indigenous Services Canada (ISC)
• The capacity development of First Nations organizations to deliver education, including establishing education systems and service delivery agreements responsive to First Nations students and community education needs.

Components

The program has 3 distinct funding components:

• Partnerships: this component supports First Nations education administration and service delivery organizations to deliver activities that:
  • Are related to existing partnerships
  • Address some of their governance and administration costs
  • Activities can strengthen or expand their services to advance student success in First Nations, independent, provincial or territorial schools.
• Structural Readiness: this component supports targeted activities that build the capacity of First Nations education administration organizations to:
  • Deliver education services
  • Develop and implement transformative education systems and agreements that delegate responsibility for elementary and secondary education to First Nations
• Regional Education Agreement: this component supports activities such as:
  • Information sessions on education transformation
  • Technical tables
  • Negotiating or renegotiating education agreements supported by leadership

 Eligibility Criteria

• Partnerships
  • Applicants who may be eligible to receive funding through the Partnerships component of the program are:
    • First Nations
    • Any First Nations organization mandated by First Nations
  • First Nations organizations mandated by First Nations must:
    • Demonstrate support from First Nations communities or schools, such as but not limited to a band council resolution, letter or email of support
    • Undertake, as a key function, elementary and secondary education support for groups of First Nations communities or schools
  • Applicants must have an existing partnership arrangement with 1 or more of the following:
    • First Nations, including First Nations organizations mandated by First Nations
    • School board-like entities
    • Provincial or territorial ministries of education
    • Provincial or territorial school boards
    • SAI
  • Applicants must clearly identify their respective partners in their proposal and demonstrate that partners will work together on identified priorities.
  • The purchasing of services, regardless of the duration of the service agreement, does not constitute a partnership for the purpo ses of this program.
• Structural Readiness
  • Applicants who may be eligible to receive funding through the Structural Readiness component of the program are:
    • First Nations
    • Any First Nations organization mandated by First Nations
    • A First Nations designated organization who will administer the Structural Readiness component on behalf of the region
  • First Nations organizations mandated by First Nations, or a First Nations designated organization must:
    • Demonstrate support from First Nations communities or schools, such as, but not limited to, a band council resolution, letter or email of support
    • Undertake, as a key function, elementary and secondary education support for groups of First Nations communities or schools
  • Eligibility to apply for Structural Readiness funding does not depend on having a partnership memorandum of understanding.
  • Entities such as bands or First Nations organizations that are delivering education services under a self-government agreement are not eligible to apply to the Structural Readiness component.
• Regional Education Agreement
  • Applicants who may be eligible to receive funding through the regional education agreement component of the program are:
    • First Nations
    • Any First Nations organization mandated by First Nations
  • First Nations organizations mandated by First Nations must meet the following criteria:
    • Have demonstrated support from First Nations communities or schools, such as but not limited to, a band council resolution, letter or email of support
    • Individual First Nations communities or schools can only be a party to a single proposal in each component
  • Entities such as bands or First Nations organizations that are delivering education services under a self-gover nment arrangement are not eligible to apply to the regional education agreement component.

Deadline

• The deadline to submit a proposal is June 19, 2022 at 11:59 pm Eastern time for the Partnerships and the Structural Readiness components.
• The deadline to submit a work plan is December 31, 2022 at 11:59 pm Eastern time for the Regional Education Agreement component.

For more information, visit Education Partnerships Program.

For more information, visit https://www.sac-isc.gc.ca/eng/1100100033760/1543408975080