Deadline: 30-Dec-22
The call for proposals for 2023 to 2024 and 2024 to 2025 Indigenous Community Infrastructure Fund, Urban Component funding is now open.
This distinctions-based fund will support the immediate demands, as determined by Indigenous partners for ongoing, new and shovel-ready projects in First Nations, including Indigenous Self-Government and Modern-Treaty partners, Inuit, Métis Nation communities and northern First Nation and northern Métis communities.
The ICIF supports the mandate of Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) and Crown Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC) to close the infrastructure gap in Indigenous communities.
Eligible Projects
The ICIF will support infrastructure projects such as but not limited to:
- water and waste water facilities
- health facilities
- cultural facilities
- schools
- housing
- energy
What does the fund support?
- The fund supports:
- First Nations
- Self-Government and Modern Treaty partners
- Inuit
- Métis Nation communities
- northern First Nation and northern Métis communities
- urban Indigenous communities and organizations
Eligibility Criteria
- Urban and rural not-for-profit Indigenous service delivery organizations
- Applicants who may be eligible to receive funding through the urban component of the Indigenous Community Infrastructure Fund are:
- urban and rural not-for-profit Indigenous service delivery organizations who own their own facility or are renting or leasing a building with confirmation that the length of the lease from project start date is a minimum of 5 years
- Facilities must be located off reserve.
- Applicants must:
- identify all other sources of confirmed funding
- identify their respective partners and support from other organizations, levels of government and the community
- provide a project description, including the objectives and expected results that will improve the physical capacity, safety, security and accessibility of their facility
- identify who will benefit from the project outcomes and what those benefits will be
- provide a detailed project budget and timeline that identifies all project costs and funding being requested
- if applicable, demonstrate that a building purchase, expansion or building replacement is the most cost efficient option
- identify when the project will be shovel ready to begin infrastructure work
- how projects are chosen?
- ISC allocates funding to recipients based on an assessment of needs, for shovel-ready projects as determined by Indigenous partners and communities and assessed by regions based on national needs.
- CIRNAC will be working with Indigenous Self-Government and Modern Treaty partners, Inuit, and Métis Nation communities and northern First Nation and northern Métis communities to collaboratively develop infrastructure action plans specific to partner’s needs and circumstances.
For more information, visit Government of Canada.