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Bruemme, George. "The Forestry Research Partnership: Developing the partnership." Forestry Chronicle 84, no. 5 (October 1, 2008): 648–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.5558/tfc84648-5.
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Initiated in 1999 by Tembec Inc., the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Natural Resources Canada, and housed at the Canadian Ecology Centre, the Canadian Ecology Centre – Forestry Research Partnership (referred to as the CECFRP) quickly evolved into an effective and successful catalyst, facilitator, and funding source for integrated forest research and development in Ontario. This paper highlights the development of the partnership and serves as an introduction to a collection of papers that highlight some of the forest science and research projects undertaken by the CECFRP over 7 years. Key words: government-industry partnerships, science to operations continuum, enhanced forest productivity, research Implementation
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Brunet, Nicolas D., Gordon M. Hickey, and Murray M. Humphries. "How can research partnerships better support local development? Stakeholder perceptions on an approach to understanding research partnership outcomes in the Canadian Arctic." Polar Record 53, no. 5 (September 2017): 479–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247417000407.
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ABSTRACTUnderstanding the benefits and outcomes of Canada's public investment in Arctic science and associated community–researcher partnerships represents a significant challenge for government. This paper presents a capital assets-based approach to conceptualising northern research partnership development processes and assessing the potential outcomes. By more explicitly considering the pre- and post-partnership asset levels (that is, social, human, physical, financial and natural assets) for different collaborators, the potential benefits and challenges associated with community–researcher partnerships can be collaboratively assessed. In order to help refine this approach, we conducted a survey of those involved in developing and maintaining community–researcher partnerships across Arctic Canada. Results indicate that the proposed approach could be useful for research funding agencies seeking to better understand partnership outcomes and promote more effective community–researcher interactions. Challenges include adequately capturing the qualitative nature of different capital assets, pointing to future research and policy needs. Better understanding the role of research in northern development has the potential to improve northern research, policy and practice.
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MacLean, David R., Jane Farquharson, Stephanie Heath, Kari Barkhouse, Celeste Latter, and Christine Joffres. "Building Capacity for Heart Health Promotion: Results of a 5-Year Experience in Nova Scotia, Canada." American Journal of Health Promotion 17, no. 3 (January 2003): 202–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.4278/0890-1171-17.3.202.
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Purpose. To present the outcomes of a capacity-building initiative for heart health promotion. Design. Follow-up study combining quantitative and qualitative methods. Setting. The Western Health Region of Nova Scotia, Canada. Subjects. Twenty organizations, including provincial and municipal agencies and community groups engaged in health, education, and recreation activities. Intervention. Two strategies were used for this study: partnership development and organizational development. Partnership development included the creation of multilevel partnerships in diverse sectors. Organizational development included the provision of technical support, action research, community activation, and organizational consultation. Measures. Quantitative data included number and type of partnerships, learning opportunities, community activation initiatives, and organizational changes. Qualitative data included information on the effectiveness of partnerships, organizational consultation, and organizational changes. Results. Results included the development of 204 intersectoral partnerships, creation of a health promotion clearinghouse, 47 workshops attended by approximately 1400 participants, diverse research products, implementation of 18 community heart health promotion initiatives, and increased organizational capacity for heart health promotion via varied organizational changes, including policy changes, fund reallocations, and enhanced knowledge and practices. Conclusions. Partnership and organizational development were effective mechanisms for building capacity in heart health promotion. This intervention may have implications for large-scale, community-based, chronic-disease prevention projects.
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Vail, Susan E. "Community Development and Sport Participation." Journal of Sport Management 21, no. 4 (October 2007): 571–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/jsm.21.4.571.
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Many sport organizations face the challenge of declining sport participation. Traditional methods of addressing this challenge such as promotional ads and top-down initiatives that ignore community needs have not succeeded in sustaining sport participation. This action research study assessed the impact of the building tennis communities model, a community development approach based on three key elements: identifying a community champion, developing collaborative partnerships, and delivering quality sport programming. Eighteen communities across Canada were supported by the national sport governing body, Tennis Canada, to participate in the study. Findings demonstrated that communities were able to identify a community champion and deliver quality programs that aimed to increase and sustain tennis participation; however, partnership building was implemented in a very preliminary and incomplete manner. Recommendations about the benefits of using a community development approach to not only increase sport participation but also develop communities through sport are presented with implications for researchers, policy makers, and practitioners.
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Pyroh, Olha. "The Global Innovation Clusters: Canadian Experience of Public-Private Partnership." Management and Entrepreneurship in Ukraine: the stages of formation and problems of development 2022, no. 2 (December 27, 2022): 402–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.23939/smeu2022.02.402.
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Purpose of the article is the research of the modern trends of global innovation clusters development in Canada that based on public-private partnership model, and to identify their features during last years. The hypothesis is that it is possible to formulate the hypothesis that at the postwar period, Ukraine would form a new innovation strategy that will push country to become global competitively and innovatively. The methods of scientific research were applied to research the global innovation system of Canada and the development of Canada's superclusters: theoretical generalization, empirical method and methods of statistical analysis. The supercluster is a new initiative promoted by the Canadian federal government to strengthen Canada’s most promising clusters and allow innovative firms to operate more productively in sourcing inputs and accessing information, knowledge, and technology. The Innovation superclusters have many positive characteristics as a new framework to rethink Canada’s innovation strategy based on public-private partnership model. The specific measures for development of industrial clusters in Ukraine at the postwar period, and elaboration of national strategy for the development of innovation system in Ukraine can be research objects in future research.
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Borodiyenko, O., N. Nychkalo, Ya Malykhina, O. Kuz, and D. Korotkov. "PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP IN EDUCATION AS A PREREQUISITE FOR THE GROWTH OF REGIONAL LABOR MARKETS: ANALYSIS OF FOREIGN EXPERIENCE." Financial and credit activity: problems of theory and practice 1, no. 36 (February 17, 2021): 408–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.18371/fcaptp.v1i36.228031.
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The aim of the article is to study the best foreign practices and models of public-private partnership in the field of vocational and higher education, identify opportunities for their adaptation to Ukrainian realities and develop recommendations for productive use of foreign experience in this area.
The theoretical significance of the article is that it is analyzed the semantic content of the basic concepts related to public-private partnership in the foreign scientific space; it is identified the prerequisites for the development of public-private partnership in vocational education abroad (at the national, institutional (vocational education institution), production (enterprise) levels; it is analyzed the challenges to vocational education and training in foreign countries which the public-private partnership is aimed to solve; criteria for typification of partnerships (number of participants, areas of partnership, integrated criterion «project financing — provision of educational services», integrated criterion «breadth of partnership and depth of interaction between partners», integrated criterion «degree of coordination of interaction — volume of investment») are identified; the author’s typology of partnerships in the field of education in foreign countries is substantiated.The practical significance of the article is that the authors developed recommendations for deepening public-private partnership in vocational and higher education institutions of Ukraine based on the study of foreign experience, suggested directions for its further development in Ukraine.
It is determined that in the foreign conceptual and terminological field, in addition to the concept of «public-private partnership» uses a number of concepts (Private Finance Initiative, PFI) (UK), Service Provision Project (SPP) (Mexico), Alternative Financing and Procurement (Canada), Private Sector Participation (PSP) (World Bank). The common essential features of these concepts are singled out: cooperation of different stakeholders, complexity of the purpose, focus on the result, parity of responsibility, long-term nature of interaction, formality of relations.
Criteria for distinguishing types of partnerships in foreign practice are proposed: number of participants, areas of partnership, integrated criterion «project financing — provision of educational services», integrated criterion «breadth of partnership and depth of interaction between partners», integrated criterion «degree of coordination of interaction — volume of investment». The peculiarities of the types of partnerships in vocational education, which were singled out on the basis of the criteria proposed by the authors, are characterized: bilateral and multilateral; infrastructure, private management of public institutions, outsourcing of educational services, outsourcing of non-educational services, innovation and research partnerships, vouchers and subsidies; private initiatives, sponsorship, mixed projects, government programs; broad partnership, in-depth partnership; liberal, solidarity, paternalistic, consortium types of partnerships.
Based on the analysis of the best practices of public-private partnership, the probable effective directions of public-private partnership in the field of vocational and higher education in Ukraine were singled out: strengthening the participation of companies in the processes of professional training; outlining a clear and concise division of responsibilities in the partnership; development of national standards of vocational education; gradual introduction of elements of dual education; promoting the prestige of vocational education as an attractive alternative to academic education; facilitating the learning trajectory between vocational and higher education; forecasting skills.
It was developed recommendations for the development of public-private partnership in the field of vocational and higher education in Ukraine in the context of: formalization of interaction (conclusion of agreements and memorandums of partnership), management of interaction (establishment of qualitative and quantitative indicators for monitoring the activities of private providers and vocational education institutions; periodic reviews of vocational education institutions to bring them in line with the standards set in the contract), development of partnership effectiveness (clear criteria for quality and effectiveness), technologicalization of interaction (in particular, use of algorithm of of interaction between vocational education institutions and partners for public-private interaction initiatives).
The need to study such models of partnerships in the field of education as the Chambers of Commerce and Industry in Germany, the Sectoral Council for Industrial Training (Canada), centers of excellence in vocational education (Netherlands), industrial centers or clusters (Tuscany in Italy and Baden-Württemberg in Germany), the National Skill Development Corporation (India) was actualized.
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Brunet, Nicolas D., Gordon M. Hickey, and Murray M. Humphries. "Local participation and partnership development in Canada's Arctic research: challenges and opportunities in an age of empowerment and self-determination." Polar Record 52, no. 3 (January 13, 2016): 345–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s003224741500090x.
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ABSTRACTAn important component of northern research in Canada has been a strong emphasis on local participation. However, the policy and permit landscape for community participation therein is heterogeneous and presents specific challenges in promoting effective partnerships between researchers and local participants. We conducted a survey of northern research stakeholders across Canada in order better to understand the benefits and challenges associated with research partnerships with a view to informing northern research policy and practice. We found that local engagement at the proposal and research design phases, the hiring of community researchers and engagement of local persons at the results dissemination phase were important factors affecting success. Respondents also indicated a lack of social capital (trust and reciprocity) between researchers and communities as placing a negative impact on science partnerships. Overall, researchers were perceived to benefit more from research partnerships than their community counterparts. Partnerships in northern research will possibly require further decentralisation of power to achieve the policy objectives of local community participation. This could be achieved, in part, by allowing non-academic principal investigators to receive funding, or by involving communities in research priority-setting, proposal review and funding allocation processes.
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Kiss, Lívia Benita. "The Importance of Business Partnership on the World Wide Web." Business Ethics and Leadership 4, no. 1 (2020): 68–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.21272/bel.4(1).68-79.2020.
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An integral component of successful entrepreneurial activity is the establishment of strong relations with partners, the form and type of which varies depending on the sphere of activity and its scope. Considering that a prerequisite for a business partnership is constant communication, the style, and quality of which mainly determines the success of doing business, the development of business communication skills becomes an object of continuous research by both scientists and enterprise managers. The main goal of this study was to examine the role and the importance of business partnerships in Google Trends. Another goal of the study was to look at how often the term business partnership appears in Google books, with the help of Google Books Ngram Viewer, as well as in a database of Science Direct, with the help of Science Direct’s search function. The top year of the interest frequency of business partnership was 2004 in the Google Trends worldwide in business and industry categories. The bottom year of interest frequency was 2006. The geographic analysis revealed that most people searched in Botswana, in Jamaica, in Zimbabwe, in Ghana, and Uganda for the term business partnership. Interestingly, these countries are all located on the African continent, except Jamaica. Most people searched in Accra, in Nairobi, in Manila, in Quezon City, and Cebu for the term business partnership. The results of the bibliometric analysis of the relationship of business partnerships with other categories made it possible to conclude that people (mostly from the Philippines, Ethiopia, the USA, Canada, and Kenya) inquired about the joint venture and limited partnership. The conducted study revealed that from 1950 to 1970, the frequency of appearance of business partnership in the Google Books` database has been decreasing continuously. From 1972 the frequency has been growing gradually, then from 2006, the frequency has been decreasing gradually. The use of the term “business partnership” shows in the Science Direct a second-degree polynomial growing trend. Summarizing all these results, we can conclude that while people in developing countries in Africa and Jamaica were most sought for expressing business partnerships, people in developed countries were more interested in types of business partnerships. Keywords: Business partnership, Google Trends, Google Books Ngram Viewer, Science Direct, Time Series Analysis.
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Mooken, Malida. "Articulating inherent values of action research for newcomers coming from the field of territorial development." IJAR – International Journal of Action Research 18, no. 1-2022 (June 8, 2022): 52–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v18i1.06.
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This paper discusses the inherent values of action research for newcomers coming from the field of territorial development. The discussion is framed around three dimensions: 1) inquiring about problematic situations in real-time; 2) contextual-temporal qualities of the process; and 3) reflecting-acting on what we have reasons to value being and doing as researchers, participants, facilitative actors, and citizens. The conceptualisation builds on theoretical influences, most notably the writings of John Dewey and action research for territorial development, and my own practice. Two cases are discussed. One is about a Knowledge Transfer Partnership in Scotland, and the other is with regards to on-going work in the wine-producing territory of British Columbia, Canada.
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Letwin, Shallen, Astra Pereira, Tammy Currie, Gary K. Pansegrau, and Marie Hawkins. "Tiers of service: Outpatient medical oncology services for British Columbia, Canada." Journal of Clinical Oncology 36, no. 30_suppl (October 20, 2018): 40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jco.2018.36.30_suppl.40.
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40 Background: The vision is for cancer care in British Columbia to be delivered in a coordinated, efficient manner, governed through effective partnerships between the Regional Health Authorities and BC Cancer. Systemic Therapy is delivered throughout BC by several providers, however service provision standards do not exist. BC Cancer and Fraser Health embarked on a process to develop a provincial Tiers of Service that outlines the responsibilities and requirements for the delivery of systemic therapy. Methods: From October 2017-April 2018, a working group drafted a Tiers of Service framework to be further approved by a Provincial Working Group. A scan of the literature and review of other jurisdiction's frameworks were evaluated. BC Cancer in partnership with the Regional Health Authorities have identified that the increased need for outpatient medical oncology services, combined with human resource and healthcare facility constraints requires a framework for organizing and delivering cancer care services in British Columbia. Therefore, a need to update the framework and shift nomenclature from the current “Levels of Service” to “Tiers of Service” was identified. Results: A survey of the working group was utilized to understand their level of confidence with regards to the development and utilization of the framework. Overall the working group increased their level of confidence from 33% to 100%. Conclusions: Tiers of Service: Outpatient Medical Oncology Services provides a practical framework which will be used to define and plan medical oncology services in British Columbia utilizing a common language and methodology. It describes the minimum responsibilities and requirements of each tier in providing a safe, sustainable and appropriate level of service. Tiers of Service will set standards and provide clarity for service provision, help build a capacity plan, plan where resources should be located, measure and monitor performance and improve the quality of the patient experience.
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Johnson Butterfield, Alice K. "The Internationalization of Doctoral Social Work Education: Learning from a Partnership in Ethiopia." Advances in Social Work 8, no. 2 (November 30, 2007): 237–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.18060/201.
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What does it mean to internationalize doctoral education by working abroad? What does it mean to internationalize doctoral education in one’s home country? This article offers a perspective based on the Social Work Education in Ethiopia Partnership, which established Ethiopia’s first-ever master’s degree in social work in 2004. To ensure sustainability of the MSW program, a doctoral program in Social Work and Social Development was launched in 2006. This article describes the development and research base of the doctoral program. Beginning in the first semester, teams of doctoral students join with poor communities in action research.Overall, these efforts lead to an emerging model of university-based development. Through engaged action research, faculty and students use human capital resources and the educational process to function as “development actors.” Some ideas for internationalizing doctoral education are offered. Deans and directors in the United States and Canada are challenged to expand doctoral education within a developing country and to prepare doctoral students to include international perspectives in their teaching and research.
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Keller, Wilf, and Faouzi Bekkaoui. "Progress and opportunities in seed genomics research at the Plant Biotechnology InstituteThis paper is one of a selection of papers published in a Special Issue from the National Research Council of Canada – Plant Biotechnology Institute." Botany 87, no. 6 (June 2009): 519–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/b09-029.
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Seed crops play a major role in the global food and feed supply industries. Cereals, oilseeds, and legumes are the predominant seed crops grown in Canada. Brassica napus L. (canola) is the most important oilseed, and currently contributes over $13 billion to the Canadian economy (Canola Council of Canada). The value of oilseed crops, canola in particular, is expected to grow owing to the increasing demand for food, feed, and bioproduct (including biodiesel) applications. In the last 6 years, the Plant Biotechnology Institute (PBI) of the National Research Council Canada, in partnership with several collaborators, has been involved in the study of oilseed crops genomics, in particular Brassica spp., to improve our understanding of this important crop. The research is providing insights into key gene function that can be applied to the improvement of crop performance, productivity, and quality, to meet the increased demand. PBI has focused its activities on two strategic areas. First, the generation of genomics resources that can be used for the study of B. napus and related species. The resources include the development of expressed sequence tags (ESTs), genomic DNA sequences, and the development of DNA arrays. Secondly, a systematic analysis of seed development and composition aimed at improving our understanding of the seed biology. Similar genomics tools developed in Brassica are now being developed in other crops including flax and legumes. Progressing from genomics to functional genomics, these research engagements will be a significant step towards understanding the molecular processes underlying seed composition, quality, yield, and stress resistance of plants thus facilitating the development of elite germplasm.
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Bisby, Mark. "Models and Mechanisms for Building and Funding Partnerships." Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology 22, no. 9 (September 2001): 585–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/501958.
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AbstractThe Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) recently replaced two former federal agencies, the Medical Research Council and the National Health Research and Development Program. CIHR has attracted widespread international attention as a grand experimental model that emphasizes excellence, interdisciplinarity, networking, partnership, and a collective process for priority setting, alongside continuing support for the best ideas of the most talented investigators. CIHR identified four cross-cutting health research themes (biomedical research; clinical research; health service; systems research; and research into the societal, cultural, and environmental determinants of health) across its 13 virtual institutes. Each institute is required to bring together investigators working in specific aspects of health research, as they relate to the mandate of the institute, in order to stimulate novel interdisciplinary research approaches. The challenge to Canadian members of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America and their collaborators from other countries is to engage in partnership with CIHR, so that together we can ensure unparalleled quality, safety, and efficacy of healthcare systems in Canada and around the world.
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Sherman, Philip M., Kimberly Banks Hart, Keeley Rose, Kwadwo Bosompra, Christopher Manuel, Paul Belanger, Sandra Daniels, Paul Sinclair, Stephen Vanner, and André G. Buret. "Evaluation of Funding Gastroenterology Research in Canada Illustrates the Beneficial Role of Partnerships." Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology 27, no. 12 (2013): 717–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/989203.
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BACKGROUND: Funders of health research in Canada seek to determine how their funding programs impact research capacity and knowledge creation.OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of a focused grants and award program that was cofunded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes, and the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology; and to measure the impact of the Program on the career paths of funded researchers and assess the outcomes of research supported through the Program.METHODS: A survey of the recipients of grants and awards from 2000 to 2008 was conducted in 2012. The CIHR Funding Decisions database was searched to determine subsequent funding; a bibliometric citation analysis of publications arising from the Program was performed.RESULTS: Of 160 grant and award recipients, 147 (92%) completed the survey. With >$17.4 million in research funding, support was provided for 131 fellowship awards, seven career transition awards, and 22 operating grants. More than three-quarters of grant and award recipients continue to work or train in a research-related position. Combined research outputs included 545 research articles, 130 review articles, 33 book chapters and 11 patents. Comparative analyses indicate that publications supported by the funding program had a greater impact than other Canadian and international comparators.CONCLUSIONS: Continuity in support of a long-term health research funding partnership strengthened the career development of gastroenterology researchers in Canada, and enhanced the creation and dissemination of new knowledge in the discipline.
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Bednyakov, A. S. "Public-Private Partnership as a Model of Public Infrastructure Development." MGIMO Review of International Relations 15, no. 1 (March 3, 2022): 143–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.24833/2071-8160-2022-1-82-143-173.
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A public-private partnership (PPP), a long-term pooling of public and private partners’ resources, sharing risks, responsibilities, and results, is a successful tool employed in many countries to develop public infrastructure. The article argues that PPP is the optimal cooperation between the state and private sectors to solve social and economic problems. Even though PPP as the phenomenon of the modern economy appeared not too long ago, it had objective prerequisites, including the prior forms of cooperation between the state and individuals. The study of these prerequisites reveals the development patterns of PPP development, including its effectiveness, that allows politicians to harness them to develop an optimal state policy in the area. The article provides a comparative analysis of the PPP abroad to assess the intermediate results of the PPP development in Russia. In many countries (Canada, France, and Great Britain), a PPP as an economic model for developing the infrastructure complex has proved its viability and significantly contributes to social and economic development. It is essential that in addition to direct economic effects, a publicprivate partnership might result in indirect influence, including a positive impact on institutional development. Public-private partnership in Russia has not yet found wide application for improving the infrastructure complex. Therefore, it does not have enough impact on economic development. Despite the large volume of research on PPP, there are few comparative studies of PPP development in countries at different levels of socio-economic development. Relying on the conducted study of PPP in Russia and the leading foreign countries, the strategic model of PPP proposed by the author as well as broader foreign experience in PPP, the article provides recommendations aimed at better utilization of the opportunities provided by fostering of this form of cooperation between the state and individuals and increasing its role in the economic development of Russia.
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Bilenko, D. V., and V. A. Kaliazina. "Sectoral Orientedness of Public-Private Partnership in Ukraine: The Problems and Prospects." Business Inform 12, no. 527 (2021): 61–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.32983/2222-4459-2021-12-61-65.
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The article is aimed at identifying the priority directions of public-private partnership in Ukraine on the basis of research of world experience and peculiarities of implementation of public-private partnership projects in Ukraine. The article provides statistics on the distribution of public-private partnership agreements by areas of implementation and volume of investment in both the developed European countries and the developing countries, as well as statistics on the distribution of investments under public-private partnership agreements by areas of implementation in Ukraine. It is concluded that it is characteristic of public-private partnership projects that the number of concluded agreements does not necessarily have to coincide with the amount of investment. The analysis of the world experience in the use of public-private partnership mechanisms in the countries that have reached the highest stage of development as to the considered matter (these include the UK, France, Spain, the USA and Canada), helped to identify the most successful directions of its implementation. Thus, one of the most important directions of public-private partnership, which is defined by the mentioned countries as priorities, are the construction of highways and social infrastructure objects. The analysis of the current legislation of Ukraine proved absence of a government administration of the sectoral orientedness of public-private partnership, which confirms the inability of the State to solve the problems of socioeconomic development with the use of this instrumentarium. The analysis of each of the priority directions of public-private partnership, the importance of which has already been proved on the example of developed countries of the world, demonstrates the presence of obstacles, primarily of a legislative nature, that entail other problems
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Strudsholm, Tina, and Ardene Robinson Vollman. "Public health leadership: Competencies to guide practice." Healthcare Management Forum 34, no. 6 (October 3, 2021): 340–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/08404704211032710.
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In 2013, the Community Health Nurses of Canada in partnership with the Canadian Institute of Public Health Inspectors and the Manitoba Public Health Managers Network received funding from the Public Health Agency of Canada to develop a set of interdisciplinary leadership competencies for seven public health disciplines. The Leadership Competencies for Public Health Practice in Canada project comprised a multimethod research approach that included a scoping literature review, on-line survey, webinar-based focus groups, and a modified Delphi process. The 49 leadership competencies for public health practice were organized according to the LEADS Canada capabilities. The leadership competencies extend the core public health competencies and discipline-specific competencies and reflect foundational values of public health. The leadership competencies can be applied to professional development pathways, mentoring programs, and performance appraisals to advance public health practice. How these competencies have been enacted by public health leaders during the COVID-19 pandemic is discussed.
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Wright, Maria da Gloria Miotto, Francisco Cumsille, Maria Itayra Padilha, Carla Arena Ventura, Jaime Sapag, Bruna Brands, Hayley Hamilton, Robert Mann, and Akwatu Khenti. "International research capacity building program for health related professionals to study the drug phenomenon in Latin America and the Caribbean." Texto & Contexto - Enfermagem 24, spe (2015): 17–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0104-07072015001010014.
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Most Organization of American States member states do not have a cadre of professionals with scientific knowledge and research experience on drugs and related problems. Therefore, the Organization of American States started a partnership, first with the University of Alberta/Canada and then with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto/Canada to train health related professionals to address this problem. The objective is to create a cadre of health and related professionals with scientific and technical research knowledge to enable scientific advances in the area of drug demand reduction. The program requires the development and implementation of a multicentric drug research proposal. The program has produced the following results: nine multicentric drug research studies implemented in 22 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean; 91 participants from 22 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. This is the only program in the Americas offering continued advanced research training to university faculty and contributing to strengthen the undergraduate and graduates curriculum on drug issues and research capability in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Trytten, Cindy, Martin Wale, Michael Hayes, and Bev Holmes. "Lessons learned from a health authority research capacity-building initiative." Healthcare Management Forum 32, no. 5 (July 11, 2019): 259–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0840470419849468.
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Health systems worldwide are under pressure to deliver better care to more people with increasingly complex needs within constrained budgets. Research capacity building has been shown to help alleviate these challenges and is underway at hospitals and health authorities across the country; however, approaches vary widely and little exists in the Canadian literature to share experience and best practices. This article describes how a health authority in British Columbia, Canada, implemented and evaluated a 5-year research capacity-building program in partnership with a provincial health research funder. We offer lessons learned for those leading similar innovation-focused change management initiatives, including vision and buy in, complexity thinking, infrastructure, leadership, and coalition development. We suggest that collective learning and building a more robust research capacity-building literature can help health organizations and their partners take significant steps toward integrating research and care for a more effective, efficient, and patient-centred health system.
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Cavallera, Vanessa, Mark Tomlinson, James Radner, Bronwynè Coetzee, Bernadette Daelmans, Rob Hughes, Rafael Pérez-Escamilla, Karlee L. Silver, and Tarun Dua. "Scaling early child development: what are the barriers and enablers?" Archives of Disease in Childhood 104, Suppl 1 (March 18, 2019): S43—S50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2018-315425.
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The Sustainable Development Goals, Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (2016–2030) and Nurturing Care Framework all include targets to ensure children thrive. However, many projects to support early childhood development (ECD) do not ‘scale well’ and leave large numbers of children unreached. This paper is the fifth in a series examining effective scaling of ECD programmes. This qualitative study explored experiences of scaling-up among purposively recruited implementers of ECD projects in low- and middle-income countries. Participants were sampled, by means of snowball sampling, from existing networks notably through Saving Brains®, Grand Challenges Canada®. Findings of a recent literature review on scaling-up frameworks, by the WHO, informed the development of a semistructured interview schedule. All interviews were conducted in English, via Skype, audio recorded and transcribed verbatim. Interviews were analysed using framework analysis. Framework analysis identified six major themes based on a standard programme cycle: planning and strategic choices, project design, human resources, financing and resource mobilisation, monitoring and evaluation, and leadership and partnerships. Key informants also identified an overarching theme regarding what scaling-up means. Stakeholders have not found existing literature and available frameworks helpful in guiding them to successful scale-up. Our research suggests that rather than proposing yet more theoretical guidelines or frameworks, it would be better to support stakeholders in developing organisational leadership capacity and partnership strategies to enable them to effectively apply a practical programme cycle or systematic process in their own contexts.
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Misra, Shivali, Alison Doucet, Juana Morales, Neil Andersson, Ann Macaulay, and Andrea Evans. "Community engagement in global health education supports equity and advances local priorities: an eight year Ecuador-Canada partnership." Canadian Medical Education Journal 9, no. 2 (June 1, 2018): e46-51. http://dx.doi.org/10.36834/cmej.36837.
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Background: Global health education initiatives inconsistently balance trainee growth and benefits to host communities. This report describes a global health elective for medical trainees that focuses on community engagement and participatory research to provide mutually beneficial outcomes for the communities and trainees.Methods: An eight-year university–community partnership, the Chilcapamba to Montreal Global Health Elective is a two-month shared decision-making research and clinical observership experience in rural Ecuador for medical trainees at McGill University, Canada. Research topics are set by matching community-identified priorities with skillsets and interests of trainees, taking into consideration local potential impact.Results: Community outcomes included development of a Community Health Worker program, new collaborations with local organizations, community identification of health priorities, and generation of health improvement recommendations. Collaborative academic outputs included multiple bursary awards, conference presentations and published manuscripts. Conclusion: This medical global health elective engages communities using participatory research to prioritise socially responsible and locally beneficial outcomes.
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Lesser, Janna, and Manuel Angel Oscós-Sánchez. "Community-Academic Research Partnerships With Vulnerable Populations." Annual Review of Nursing Research 25, no. 1 (January 2007): 317–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/0739-6686.25.1.317.
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Community-academic research partnerships have evolved as a multidisciplinary approach to involve those communities experiencing health disparities in the development, implementation, and evaluation of health interventions. Community-academic partnerships are intended to bring together academic researchers and communities to share power, establish trust, foster colearning, enhance strengths and resources, build community capacity, and address community-identified needs and health problems. The purpose of this chapter is to review the current state of community-academic research partnerships in the United States and Canada. We discuss contextual issues; present a review of the current literature; identify the major strengths, challenges, and lessons learned that have emerged during the course of these research collaborations; and explore implications for future research and policy.
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Priddle, Roland. "Reflection on National Energy Board Regulation 1959-98: From Persuasion to Prescription and on to Partnership." Alberta Law Review 37, no. 2 (July 1, 1999): 524. http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/alr531.
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In this transcription of his keynote address given at the thirty-seventh annual Research Seminar of the Canadian Petroleum Law Foundation in Jasper, Alberta, Roland Priddle, former Chairman of the National Energy Board provides an historical summary of the regulatory role of the NEB. Starting with Canada s first Royal Commission on Energy, continuing with the energy crisis of the 1970s, through to the deregulation of the 1980s, Mr. Priddle describes numerous events and circumstances which have shaped the NEB's regulatory policies. The origins of the environment in which today's pipelines operate are traced, and the development of NEB's policies to address changing economic and political circumstances is described.
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Getchell, Leah, Eva Bernstein, Elisabeth Fowler, Linnea Franson, Marian Reich, Dwight Sparkes, Arlene Desjarlais, et al. "Program Report: KidneyPRO, a Web-based Training Module for Patient Engagement in Kidney Research." Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease 7 (January 2020): 205435812097925. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2054358120979255.
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Purpose of report: Over the recent years, there has been increasing support and traction for patient-oriented research (POR). Such an approach ensures that health research is focused on what matters most: improving outcomes for patients. Yet the realm of health research remains enigmatic for many patients in Canada who are not familiar with research terms and practices, highlighting the need for focused capacity-building efforts, including the development of novel educational tools to support patients to meaningfully engage in the research enterprise. The need for disease-specific training in POR was identified by the network dedicated to advancing patient-oriented kidney research in Canada, Canadians Seeking Solutions and Innovations to Overcome Chronic Kidney Disease (Can-SOLVE CKD), during the early years of the network’s inception. In this report, we describe the development of KidneyPRO, an online learning module that orients patients and families to kidney research in Canada, and outlines ways to get involved. In line with the Patient Engagement framework of the Strategy for Patient Oriented Research, KidneyPRO was co-developed with the network’s patient partners. Sources of information: The need for KidneyPRO was identified through a review of feedback from network participants of Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s (CIHR) Foundations in Patient-Oriented Research Module 2—Health Research in Canada and a network-wide survey of Can-SOLVE CKD that was conducted in June 2017 and assessed training needs of key stakeholders. This 2017 survey ranked the need for tools providing introductory knowledge on Canadian kidney research as third in the network’s top 5 capacity-building priorities. Methods: At Can-SOLVE CKD, a dedicated multi-stakeholder team was formed from the Training & Mentorship Committee (the network’s core infrastructure for POR capacity building) to determine the learning objectives, content, and user interface. The team consisted of 3 patient partners, Director of Research for the Kidney Foundation of Canada, a kidney clinician-scientist, the network’s Patient Partnerships & Training Lead, Can-SOLVE CKD’s Indigenous People’s Engagement and Research Council Coordinator, and a project coordinator. With permission, content from CIHR’s Foundations in Patient-Oriented Research, along with resources from the Kidney Foundation of Canada’s research arm and network project teams, was used to form the basis of the tool. The working group adapted a DoTTI (Design and develOpment, Testing early iterations, Testing for Effectiveness, Integration, and implementation) framework and iteratively identified, created, and refined the content and user interface in consultation with the Training and Mentorship Committee and the Can-SOLVE CKD Patient Governance Circle. Key findings: In this article, we describe the development, deployment, and evaluation of KidneyPRO, a web-based training module that helps patients understand general, patient-oriented, and kidney-specific research within Canada. KidneyPRO aims to support patient engagement in studies as partners and/or participants and empower them to take part in the research process in an active and meaningful way. It was co-designed and vetted by patients, which helps to ensure clear, useful content and a user-friendly interface. In addition, the module includes links to kidney research opportunities within the Can-SOLVE CKD Network and beyond. A literature review established that KidneyPRO fills an important gap in kidney-specific POR. Ongoing collection of website metrics and postcompletion surveys from users will be used to evaluate the effectiveness of the tool. Limitations: As an online tool, people who do not have adequate Internet access will not be able to use KidneyPRO. Currently, the tool is not compliant with all Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Given how the landscape of patient partnership in research is constantly evolving, the content in KidneyPRO needs to be updated on a regular basis. Implications: Canadians with or at high risk of CKD now have access to an educational tool when seeking to engage as partners and/or participants in innovative kidney research.
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Ball, Jessica, and Alan Pence. "A Postmodernist Approach to Culturally Grounded Training in Early Childhood Care and Development." Australasian Journal of Early Childhood 25, no. 1 (March 2000): 21–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/183693910002500106.
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This article describes a unique approach to involving cultural communities in elaborating curricula for training early childhood educators. This ‘Generative Curriculum Model (GCM) has been demonstrated in partnership programs between the authors and seven Canadian aboriginal communities. Indigenous experiences and culturally-valued knowledge are articulated by tribal Elders and considered alongside mainstream research and theory about child development and care. Ongoing evaluation research has documented the success of this model in facilitating completion of post-secondary training and career development among aboriginal students. The training resonates with the students’ own culture, and community members are involved throughout the training in dialogue and planned actions for delivering services for children and their families based on their own cultural constructions of childhood and effective care. The process and impacts of this training model in seven aboriginal communities in Canada are discussed in postmodernist terms. The legitimacy and potential utility of indigenous knowledge are acknowledged and multiple perspectives are brought to bear in elaborating effective praxis in community-driven early childhood care and education.
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DROLET, JULIE, MOHAMMAD IDRIS ALEMI, and TARA COLLINS. "BEYOND THE CHALLENGES: NEW INSIGHTS AND INNOVATIONS IN FIELD EDUCATION." Hong Kong Journal of Social Work 55, no. 01n02 (January 2021): 39–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s021924622100005x.
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The International Conference on Social Work and Fieldwork Education in Hong Kong was organized to discuss the need for change and innovation in social work education with a particular focus on field education. There is a need for social work field educators to identify innovative, promising, and wise practices in field education. In many contexts, field education is challenged to procure sufficient placements each year. This growing demand for placements has created numerous challenges in field education programs. In response to the challenges facing social work field education, and the need to develop sustainable models of field education, the Transforming the Field Education Landscape (TFEL) project was formed. The TFEL project is a partnership designed to integrate research and practice through the development of partnered research training initiatives aimed at enhancing student research practice knowledge and applied skill development. In Canada, many field education challenges were amplified due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which required social work programs to adapt in order to navigate unprecedented circumstances. This article discusses the challenges facing field education programs and provides an overview of the TFEL project, with a focus on how the partnership is addressing these concerns. It defines what is meant by innovative, promising, and wise practices in field education, and how these innovations can assist in preparing the next generation of social workers to become highly qualified personnel.
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Martin-Matthews, Anne, and Linda Mealing. "Éditorial : Concrétisation de la vision. L’Étude longitudinale canadienne sur le vieillissement, une initiative stratégique des Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada." Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement 28, no. 3 (September 2009): 215–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0714980809990067.
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ABSTRACTThe Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging has progressed from a vision initiated by the CIHR Institute of Aging in 2001 to a federally funded national research platform in 2008. The development of the CLSA protocol was enhanced through a series of international peer reviews, a multisectorial Steering Committee, and a CIHR Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues committee; each was essential to the excellence of the science and to making the CLSA relevant to multiple sectors. The CLSA research team, led by three co-principal investigators (Kirkland, Raina, and Wolfson), has developed a unique protocol focusing on aging from cell to society, designed to follow 50,000 people aged 45 to 85, for 20 years. A strategic partnership with Statistics Canada has been crucial to the development and launch of the CLSA. The CLSA will contribute to our understanding of transitions and trajectories within an aging population, and will differ from longitudinal studies of aging worldwide through the breadth of its scope, the early age of recruitment into the study (age 45), the ethno-cultural diversity of Canada’s population, and the potential to link collected data to health administrative data at the provincial level. The CIHR is a novel longitudinal population-based study that will be an unprecedented research resource underpinning multidisciplinary research and evidence-based decision making in aging in Canada.
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Bell, F. Wayne, John Parton, Neil Stocker, Dennis Joyce, Doug Reid, Monique Wester, Al Stinson, Gordon Kayahara, and Bill Towill. "Developing a silvicultural framework and definitions for use in forest management planning and practice." Forestry Chronicle 84, no. 5 (October 1, 2008): 678–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.5558/tfc84678-5.
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Lack of a management framework on which to base silviculture options has plagued the forest management planning process in Ontario. The Forest Management Planning Manual for Ontario’s Crown Forests directs that strategic silvicultural options be developed and identified in terms of the (i) applicable forest unit, (ii) associated assumptions, and (iii) extent to which they can be used on a forest management unit. In this paper, we describe a framework for classifying management (or silviculture) intensity and propose definitions for extensive, basic, intensive, and elite intensities of silviculture to support the framework’s use in planning and application. We outline how the Canadian Ecology Centre – Forestry Research Partnership, a research partnership between Tembec Inc., the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, and Natural Resources Canada, is considering applying these in the forest management planning process. The framework and definitions can be used to develop strategic silviculture options within an active adaptive management approach. This framework should help to reduce uncertainties associated with forest development, treatment costs, response to treatments, and success rates provided appropriate monitoring. The framework and definitions described were specifically developed for silviculture related to reforestation of even-aged boreal forests. Key words: intensive silviculture, adaptive management, forest management
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Sroka, Robert. "Mega-Events and Rapid Transit: Evaluating the Canada Line 10 Years After Vancouver 2010." Public Works Management & Policy 26, no. 3 (March 26, 2021): 220–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1087724x211003099.
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This article examines the Canada Line rapid rail transit project in Vancouver, British Columbia, a decade after its completion and the 2010 Winter Olympic Games for which it was accelerated. The case resides at the intersection of two project classes with well-documented patterns of underperformance: transit mega-projects and sporting mega-events. Beyond connecting a number of Vancouver 2010 venues, the Canada Line is notable for its use of a public-private partnership procurement (PPP) model, as well as the significant real estate development seen nearby. In particular, the article focuses on outcomes classified under three headings: procurement model, community impact, and land use impact. Prior to providing avenues for future research, this article finds that while the PPP model avoided substantial cost overrun risks, the lucrative operational concession was where the growth coalition pushing the project was able to make it sufficiently attractive for private partners, while externalizing cost on third-parties.
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Marshall, Rachael, Michele Desjardine, Jana Levison, Kim Anderson, and Edward McBean. "Moving towards Effective First Nations’ Source Water Protection: Barriers, Opportunities, and a Framework." Water 12, no. 11 (October 22, 2020): 2957. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w12112957.
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It is well known that watershed-based source water protection programs are integral to the provision of clean drinking water. However, the involvement of Indigenous communities in these programs is very limited in Canada, which has contributed to the vulnerability of Indigenous source waters to contamination. Through a partnership with an Anishinaabe community, this research aimed to identify challenges and opportunities for communities and practitioners to improve the protection of Indigenous source waters in the province of Ontario. The methodology followed the Indigenous research principles of relationship, respect, relevance, reciprocity, and responsibility. Interviews and a youth focus group were conducted with Indigenous community members and practitioners from industry, academia, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and government. Analysis was conducted using an iterative process to develop codes and themes in the qualitative data analysis software NVivo. Results indicated that issues with scale, jurisdiction, the concept of source water protection, representation, funding, and capacity impact efforts to protect Indigenous source waters. Hopeful recent developments and upcoming opportunities were identified, and a water protection framework for First Nation communities in Ontario was developed in partnership with an Anishinaabe water protection committee. Recommendations are provided to multiple sectors for moving forward respectfully, and effectively, towards the protection of Indigenous waters.
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Pomeroy, W. M. "The Fraser River basin – towards sustainability." Water Science and Technology 31, no. 8 (April 1, 1995): 33–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wst.1995.0257.
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The Fraser River Basin occupies approximately one quarter of the area of British Columbia ranging from undeveloped forests to heavily urbanized centres. Competing demands are continually being made on the system with respect to preservation of the natural environment and economic development. In response to increasing stresses, the six year Fraser River Action Plan was initiated in 1991 to reduce pollution, enhance environmental quality, and develop an integrated basin management program based on sustainability. Activities addressing the first two are under way in the areas of pollution abatement, environmental quality and research, enforcement and compliance, and habitat restoration and conservation. Partnerships are critical to implementing a successful integrated management program. The Fraser Basin Management Program balances current social and economic needs with environmental conservation to achieve sustainability. Smaller scale management programs exist within the basin to address the highly urbanized/industrialized Fraser estuary (Fraser River Estuary Management Program) and the Port of Vancouver/Burrard Inlet (Burrard Inlet Environmental Action Program). Environment Canada, in partnership with others, is cleaning up pollution and establishing effective sustainable management programs, before the conflicts between environment and economy reach a critical point. Results to date are encouraging.
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Antokhiv-Skolozdra, O. M. "Canada-EU relations in political sphere." Актуальні проблеми філософії та соціології, no. 27 (April 8, 2021): 140–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.32837/apfs.v0i27.935.
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The article considers the peculiarities of formation and development of relations between Canada and the European Union in political sphere. It points out that the common essence of approaches to modern international relations serves as a potential basis for building bilateral cooperation on the issues of establishing political cooperation. In the course of research on Canada’s foreign policy it was noted that there is a number of features that are due to both internal context and external factors. In particular, it refers the peculiar nature of Canadian statehood, the existence of two linguistic communities, geographical location, and immediate neighborhood with the United States. It emphasizes the similarity of Canada’s positions with the approaches of European countries to solving a number of problems of modern world development. The importance of maintaining the transatlantic connection is among the significant issues. At the same time, it should be taken into account that there are peculiarities of establishing and maintaining relations between Canada and the European Union. On the one hand these are the relations with a strong multinational association and on the other – with each individual member state. It is noted that, despite the long historical tradition in the relationship, the potential for cooperation between Canada and the EU is only partially used. It highlights the need for Canada to reach a new level in its relations with the European Union, provided that it maintains close relations with the United States of America. Areas of mutual interest, as well as problematic aspects of negotiations on a strategic partnership agreement between Canada and the European Union have been identified. Although Canada–EU relations are bilateral, they are evolving in a broader international context. It is analyzed that Canada can be a valuable partner for the European Union in the field of international relations. This country should strive to be involved in the preparation of important international decisions in order to build common positions and ensure a sufficient level of coordination between the parties.
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Reiman, Anthony, Samantha Fowler, Lauren McLaughlin, Sarah Bridges, Marc Robichaud, Barbara Ridgway, Donna E. Reece, et al. "Patient, Caregiver, and Healthcare Provider Priorities for Future Multiple Myeloma Research: Results of a James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership." Blood 138, Supplement 1 (November 5, 2021): 4984. http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/blood-2021-145096.
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Abstract Multiple myeloma, also referred to simply as myeloma, is an incurable cancer of the plasma cells. Every year, more than 3,000 Canadians are diagnosed with myeloma and more than 1,000 Canadians die from this disease. As a result of recent advances in treatment, people are living longer with myeloma. However, as the disease has yet no cure, further research is needed to continuously improve the diagnosis, treatment, and management of myeloma, and to provide a better quality of life for those living with this disease. The first project of its kind for myeloma, the Canadian Myeloma Priority Setting Partnership (PSP) was established in 2019 to identify research priorities shared by people with myeloma, caregivers and healthcare providers. The Canadian Myeloma PSP followed the rigorous methodology developed by the James Lind Alliance (JLA), a UK-based, non-profit initiative that seeks to reduce the gap that exists between funded research and the needs of the community. The project was generously funded and supported by Myeloma Canada, a national charitable organization exclusively devoted to improving the lives of Canadians impacted by myeloma. Following the JLA guidelines, we convened a national steering committee whose members consisted of people with myeloma, caregivers and healthcare providers; together, they guided the iterative priority setting process. The first phase of the process involved the development of a survey used to elicit unanswered research questions, also known as "uncertainties," relating to four wide-ranging topics: diagnosis, treatment, management, and living well with myeloma. The survey generated 3,042 uncertainties from 594 participants from across Canada. In the second phase of the process, the uncertainties were processed and verified according to the JLA guidelines to produce 76 indicative questions. These questions were subsequently reviewed to determine whether they fell within the project scope, and then compared against all available systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines on myeloma published within the previous ten years (2010-2020). This process yielded 45 indicative questions that were both within the scope of the project and unanswered by previous research. The third phase involved an interim prioritization survey which asked participants to select and rank their top 10 questions for future myeloma research from among the list of 45 indicative questions. A total of 651 participants from across the country completed the second survey and the results were used to create a shortlist of 18 questions. The shortlist was then submitted for discussion at a consensus-building or prioritization workshop. The prioritization workshop, the final phase of the PSP process, was held in April 2021. The online event was attended by 23 participants (people living with myeloma, caregivers and healthcare providers), while four JLA Advisors facilitated the discussions using nominal group techniques. This event produced a ranked list of the top 10 research priorities for future research on myeloma (see Table 1).These priorities will be disseminated as widely as possible among researchers, clinicians, research funders and the broader myeloma community. The goal is not only to inform on, but also to solicit funding for future research directions that are meaningful to those directly affected by the disease. Figure 1 Figure 1. Disclosures Reiman: Myeloma Canada, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, New Brunswick Health Research Foundation, Canadian Cancer Society, Terry Fox Research Institute, AstraZeneca, Roche, Pfizer, Amgen, BristolMyersSquibb,: Research Funding; Myeloma Canada: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Compositions and Methods for Inhibiting Blood Cancer Cell Growth. Canadian Patent Pending 176000 (2017-10-20) Peptides for the Treatment of Resorptive Bone Disease. Murugesan A and Reiman T. United States Provisional Patent; 62/249,471 (2015-11-02). Cance: Patents & Royalties. Reece: Amgen: Consultancy, Honoraria; Janssen: Consultancy, Honoraria, Research Funding; Takeda: Consultancy, Honoraria, Research Funding; Celgene: Consultancy, Honoraria, Research Funding; Millennium: Research Funding; Karyopharm: Consultancy, Research Funding; BMS: Honoraria, Research Funding; GSK: Honoraria; Sanofi: Honoraria. Song: Celgene: Research Funding; Celgene, Janssen, Amgen, Takeda: Honoraria.
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Dixon, Andrea. "The path to embed sustainability in Canadian tourism companies." Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes 9, no. 4 (August 14, 2017): 433–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/whatt-04-2017-0019.
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Purpose This paper aims to determine a uniquely Canadian training path for tourism companies to follow to embed sustainable tourism practices in their companies. Design/methodology/approach The foundation of this paper was laid by conducting in-depth executive interviews with leading tourism companies in Canada. Based on the interviews, an eight-question survey was developed and sent to 22 Canadian tourism companies with a response rate of 36 per cent. The results of best practice research conducted in the UK and Ireland were considered in relation to implementation in Canada. Findings This paper suggests a Canadian process and key concepts to consider for embedding sustainability in tourism companies. Practical implications This paper provides a practical training process, geared for Canadian tourism companies, that embeds sustainability in all divisions of the company. A step-by-step process is described that all tourism companies, no matter their size, can use to embed sustainability. Originality/value This paper draws upon the author’s experience in working with Canadian tourism companies and incorporates best practices shared in a partnership with The Travel Foundation. As the paper represents both original research and industry best practice, it is of interest to academics, tourism training centres and tourism companies in Canada. Learning an effective and efficient process developed specifically for Canadian tourism companies will allow companies to economically embed sustainability and ultimately create a unique market position for the company.
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Burlakoti, Rishi R., Derek Lynch, Caroline Halde, Tom Beach, Sabitri Dahal, and Samir C. Debnath. "Organic agriculture project in Nepal: An international twinning partnership program initiative." Canadian Journal of Plant Science 92, no. 6 (November 2012): 997–1003. http://dx.doi.org/10.4141/cjps2011-198.
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Burlakoti, R. R., Lynch, D., Halde, C., Beach, T., Dahal, S. and Debnath, S. C. 2012. Organic agriculture project in Nepal: An international twinning partnership program initiative. Can. J. Plant Sci. 92: 997–1003. Agriculture is the major occupation in Nepal, contributing 32% of total gross domestic product (GDP) and 75% of the country's exports. The traditional way of farming using low inputs (inorganic fertilizers and pesticides) provides opportunities to adopt organic farming for diversified crops, with potential domestic markets and export markets in Japan and Europe. With a goal of improving the livelihood of rural ethnic marginalized farmers of the mid-western hill of Nepal, an international development project was started through a joint effort of the Agricultural Institute of Canada (AIC), Sustainable Agriculture Development Program (SADP) Nepal, the Canadian Society of Agronomy (CSA) and the Canadian Society for Horticultural Science (CSHS). The project, entitled “Research and support to organic agriculture in Tanahu district of Nepal”, commenced in April 2010. Canadian team members visited Nepal in December 2009 and 2010. To date, the project has successfully strengthened the organizational capacity of the lead organization (SADP, Nepal), conducted a baseline assessment study in the project area, assessed the potential domestic market for organic product, promoted organic farming among the ethnic marginal farmer groups (Kumal and Darai), and identified and established a strong collaborative project link with the agricultural university and scientific societies of Nepal. A proposed further 5-yr (2011 to 2016) project aims to change the traditional subsistent farming to commercial organic farming in the target area and aims to improve the livelihood of the farmers through better income generation from organic farming. The project will include scientific research on organic farming led by the Agriculture and Forestry University, Nepal, in collaboration with other scientific societies of Nepal. The CSA and CSHS will provide technical input, advice for the project, and monitor and supervise the project progress.
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Shroff, Farah, Jasmit S. Minhas, and Christian Laugen. "Power of partnerships." International Journal of Health Governance 24, no. 4 (November 21, 2019): 284–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijhg-06-2019-0045.
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Purpose Many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are struggling to reduce maternal mortality rates, despite increased efforts by the United Nations through the implementation of their Millennium Development Goals program. Industrialized nations, such as Canada, have a collaborative role to play in raising the global maternal health standards. The purpose of this paper is to propose policy approaches for Canadians and other Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) nations who wish to assist in reducing maternal mortality rates. Design/methodology/approach Ten Canadian health experts with experience in global maternal health were interviewed. Using qualitative analytical methods, the authors coded and themed their responses and paired them with peer-reviewed literature in this area to establish a model for improving global maternal health and survival rates. Findings Findings from this study indicated that maternal health may be improved by establishing a collaborative approach between interdisciplinary teams of health professionals (e.g. midwives, family physicians, OB/GYNs and nurses), literacy teachers, agriculturalists and community development professionals (e.g. humanitarians with diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds). From this, a conceptual approach was devised for elevating the standard of maternal health. This approach includes specifications by which maternal health may be improved, such as gender justice, women’s literacy, freedom from violence against women, food and water security and healthcare accessibility. This model is based on community health center (CHC) models that integrate upstream changes with downstream services may be utilized by Canada and other OECD nations in efforts to enhance maternal health at home and abroad. Research limitations/implications Maternal mortality may be reduced by the adoption of a CHC model, an approach well suited for all nations regardless of economic status. Establishing such a model in LMICs would ideally establish long-term relationships between countries, such as Canada and the LMICs, where teams from supporting nations would collaborate with local Ministries of Health, non-government organizations as well as traditional birth attendants and healthcare professionals to reduce maternal mortality. Practical implications All OECD Nations ought to donate 0.7 percent of their GDP toward international community development. These funds should break the tradition of “tied aid”, thereby removing profit motives, and genuinely contribute to the wellbeing of people in LMICs, particularly women, children and others who are vulnerable. The power of partnerships between people whose aims are genuinely focused on caring is truly transformative. Social implications Canada is not a driver of global maternal mortality reduction work but has a responsibility to work in partnership with countries or regions in a humble and supportive role. Applying a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to reducing maternal mortality in the Global South includes adopting a CHC model: a community development approach to address social determinants of health and integrating various systems of evidence-informed healthcare with a commitment to social justice. Interdisciplinary teams would include literacy professionals, researchers, midwives, nurses, family physicians, OB/GYNs and community development professionals who specialize in anti-poverty work, mediation/dialogue and education campaigns that emphasize the value of all people regardless of their gender, ethnicity, religion and income. Diasporic Canadians are invaluable members of these teams due to their linguistic and cultural knowledge as well as their enthusiasm for working with their countries of origin. Establishment of long-term partnerships of 5–10 years between a Canadian team and a region or nation in the Global South that is dedicated to reducing maternal mortality and improving women’s health are valuable. Canada’s midwifery education programs are rated as world leaders so connecting midwives from Canada with those of the Global South will facilitate essential transfer of knowledge such as using birth plans and other evidence-based practices. Skilled attendants at the birth place will save women’s lives; in most cases, trained midwives are the most appropriate attendants. Video link to a primer about this paper by Dr Farah Shroff: https://maa.med.ubc.ca/videos-and-media/. Originality/value There are virtually no retrievable articles that document why OECD nations ought to work with nations in the LMICs to improve maternal health. This paper outlines the reasons why it is important and explains how to do it well.
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FORTIN, MARIE-JOSE, and CHRISTIANE GAGNON. "An assessment of social impacts of national parks on communities in Quebec, Canada." Environmental Conservation 26, no. 3 (September 1999): 200–211. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0376892999000284.
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Numerous national parks have been established worldwide to protect nature, but this has not been without social consequences for neighbouring communities. Since the social and economic vitality of adjacent communities is being recognized more and more as indispensable for the success of conservation objectives, the quality of park-community relations has become a critical issue. A four-year investigation into the social impacts engendered by two national parks situated in the Saguenay region of Quebec (Canada) was conducted, according to a social impact assessment method. Several impacts and changes were identified on resource management, on the local economy, on the tourist industry, on involvement and participation of local actors and on the social organization of the neighbouring communities. The significance of these impacts varied according to the community and the actors involved. The results of the present research point to the determining role of the government in general, and of the park management in particular, in the process of local community development. In this regard, recommendations are addressed to local communities to improve their partnership with national parks.
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Jack, S. M., N. Catherine, A. Gonzalez, H. L. MacMillan, D. Sheehan, and C. Waddell. "Adapting, piloting and evaluating complex public health interventions: lessons learned from the Nurse–Family Partnership in Canadian public health settings." Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada 35, no. 8/9 (November 2015): 151–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.24095/hpcdp.35.8/9.07.
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Introduction The Nurse–Family Partnership (NFP) is a home-visit program for young and first-time, socially and economically disadvantaged mothers. Evidence from three United States randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on the effectiveness of this intervention at improving pregnancy outcomes, improving child health and development, and increasing maternal economic self-sufficiency is robust. However, the effectiveness of the NFP in Canada, with its different health and social care context, needs to be determined. The purpose of this article is to describe the complex process for moving the NFP from the research arena to full implementation in Canada. Methods This process of evaluation in Canada includes (1) adapting the intervention; (2) piloting the intervention in small-scale feasibility and acceptability studies; and (3) conducting an RCT and process evaluation through a study called the British Columbia Healthy Connections Project (BCHCP). This large-scale evaluation also creates an opportunity to expand the NFP evidence base by conducting an additional study to examine potential biological mechanisms linking intervention and behavioural outcomes in children. Results Adaptation of the NFP home-visit materials is a continuous process. A pilot project determined that it was feasible to enrol eligible women into the NFP. This pilot also determined that, in Canada, it was most appropriate for public health agencies to implement the NFP and for public health nurses to deliver the intervention. Finally, the pilot showed that this intensive home-visit program was acceptable to clients, their family members and health care providers. Through the BCHCP, the next steps—the RCT and process evaluation—are currently underway. The BCHCP will also set the foundation for long-term evaluation of key public health outcomes in a highly vulnerable population of families. The function of home-visit programs should not be viewed in isolation. Rather, their potential can be maximized when they collaborate and share information with other agencies to provide better services for first-time mothers.
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Nordin, Vidar J., and Roxanne Comeau. "Forest resources education in Canada." Forestry Chronicle 79, no. 4 (August 1, 2003): 799–808. http://dx.doi.org/10.5558/tfc79799-4.
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In a new focus on forest education, forest practitioners and forest workers will redefine their roles and modify their educational training to reflect changing needs. Challenging working environments compatible with a new generation of high-tech forest practitioners need to be established by employers. Information technology will revolutionize the delivery of forest resources education and the procedures and motivation for life-long learning. The educational environment will transform increasingly from didactic to interactive problem-based learning and professors will emerge as creative facilitators of knowledge, and have a profound influence on the development of forest education. The forestry schools will need creative partnerships at home and abroad to support their mandates in education, research, and public service. Inventive, visionary leadership by the forestry schools will be essential so that the schools become leading players in national and global affairs. Aboriginal communities are facing new challenges and assuming growing responsibilities in managing their forest lands and enterprises. Exceptional measures are needed to educate forest practitioners and forest workers of Aboriginal ancestry via partnerships with forest industry, governments, academic institutions, and forestry resources associations. Key words: education, forestry resources, teaching, accreditation, information technology, curriculum, continuing education, Aboriginal.
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Kyoon Achan, Grace, Rachel Eni, Wanda Phillips-Beck, Josée G. Lavoie, Kathi Avery Kinew, and Alan Katz. "Canada First Nations Strengths in Community-Based Primary Healthcare." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 20 (October 19, 2022): 13532. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013532.
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Introduction: First Nation (FN) peoples and communities in Canada are still grappling with the effects of colonization. Health and social inequities result in higher disease burden and significant disparities in healthcare access and responsiveness. For resilience, survival, and self-determination, FN are looking inwards for strengths. This paper reports on the cultural, community, and family strengths that have supported FN communities in developing community-based primary healthcare (CBPHC) strategies to support health and wellbeing. Methods: The study was a partnership between university-based researchers; The First Nations Health and Social Secretariat of Manitoba; and eight First Nation communities in Manitoba. Community-based participatory research methods were used to engage the participating communities. One hundred and eighty-three in-depth, semi-structured key informant interviews were completed between 2014 and 2016 with key members of the First Nation communities, i.e., community-based health providers and users of primary healthcare services, representing all age and genders. Data-collection and analysis were conducted following iterative grounded theory analysis. Results: Community-based healthcare models based on local strengths support easier access and shorter wait times for care and compassionate care delivery. Resources such as homecare and medical transportation are helpful. Community cooperation, youth power, responsive leadership, and economic development as well as a strong cultural and spiritual base are key strengths supporting health and social wellbeing. Conclusions: Locally led, self-determined care adds strength in FN communities, and is poised to create long-lasting primary healthcare transformation.
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Repaj, Ermira. "Revitalization of urban areas through business and tourism improvement districts (BIDs/TIDs) in Albania." Business and Management Review 11, no. 02 (December 15, 2020): 128–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.24052/bmr/v11nu02/art-15.
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The spreading of business improvement districts (BIDs) and similar forms of a public-private partnership, as a new mechanism of urban revitalization and economic development, have emerged in Canada five decades ago and quickly adopted to many cities in countries such as the USA, Germany, UK, South Africa and lately Denmark and Sweden. This form of a public-private partnership with local authorities is created when a significant number of businesses or business property owners agree through a democratic process ballot to manage a delimited area and offer additional public services such as security, maintenance, infrastructure improvement, and marketing, to improve decaying commercial and residential areas. Since 2011, the model has been applied in 8 districts in Albania, contributing to improved business life, infrastructure improvement, and enhanced general public services. The period is long enough to offer insights regarding their evolution and transformative effect in the areas where it has been applied. This paper aims to explore the adaptation of the business improvement district (BID) model in urban areas in Albania and, at the same time, point out its characteristics, activities, and contribution to the area development. The methodology used includes a qualitative research design, including primary and secondary data sources. Primary data sources include interviews with BID association members, administrators, and consultants in Albania, businesses, local government officials, and lawyers. Secondary sources include different research papers on BID functionality and BID legislation, conference proceedings, project reports, entrepreneurship magazines. By identifying the effects of the model in area transformation, this study results have important implications for Albania's public and development policies and extracts practical lessons from its introduction in this local context. The findings presented demonstrate BID's transformative role for area renewal, economic and social development of the areas where it has been applied.
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Wray, Kristine, Akarath Soukhaphon, Brenda Parlee, Amabel D’Souza, Carolina Freitas, Iria Heredia, Chelsea Martin, Carrie Oloriz, Tracey Proverbs, and Neal Spicer. "Aligning Intentions with Community: Graduate Students Reflect on Collaborative Methodologies with Indigenous Research Partners." Sustainability 12, no. 18 (September 12, 2020): 7534. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12187534.
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Collaborative and community-based research (CCBR) is well defined and discussed in the literature; however, there are few discussions about graduate students doing CCBR with Indigenous communities. This project report features insights from nine graduate students attending six universities in Canada, the United States, and Brazil. These students are a part of a multi-year research partnership grant involving fishing communities from three major watersheds, the Mackenzie River Basin, the Amazon River Basin, and the lower Mekong River Basin. Each student engaged in collaborative research around the themes of Indigenous fishing livelihoods and the role of local and traditional knowledge in river basin governance. This project report presents reflections of graduate students on developing relationships and enacting CCBR during the following three stages of research with Indigenous communities: research project design, research project implementation, and post-project engagement. Best practices have been developed from graduate student reflections on issues, challenges, and needs of graduate students doing CCBR. The findings suggest that a diversity of factors contribute to effective CCBR. This includes the needs and interests of the community partner, the quality of supervisor support, the skillset of the student, their disciplinary background, and their capacity to work in complex sociopolitical contexts.
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Garrison, Nanibaa’ A., Māui Hudson, Leah L. Ballantyne, Ibrahim Garba, Andrew Martinez, Maile Taualii, Laura Arbour, Nadine R. Caron, and Stephanie Carroll Rainie. "Genomic Research Through an Indigenous Lens: Understanding the Expectations." Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics 20, no. 1 (August 31, 2019): 495–517. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-genom-083118-015434.
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Indigenous scholars are leading initiatives to improve access to genetic and genomic research and health care based on their unique cultural contexts and within sovereign-based governance models created and accepted by their peoples. In the past, Indigenous peoples’ engagement with genomicresearch was hampered by a lack of standardized guidelines and institutional partnerships, resulting in group harms. This article provides a comparative analysis of research guidelines from Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the United States that pertain to Indigenous peoples. The goals of the analysis are to identify areas that need attention, support Indigenous-led governance, and promote the development of a model research policy framework for genomic research and health care that has international relevance for Indigenous peoples.
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Sass, Robert. "The Implications of Work Organization for Occupational Health Policy: The Case of Canada." International Journal of Health Services 19, no. 1 (January 1989): 157–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/9c77-6160-fgj5-8vhq.
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This article examines occupational health and safety developments in Canada during the decade of the 1970s when most government jurisdictions replaced former factory Acts with new health and safety legislation recognizing the right of workers to be involved in work environment matters. During the latter part of the 1970s, health and safety “activists” and trade unionists began to perceive the need for a wider conception of occupational health and safety. Canadian reformers were influenced by Scandinavian developments, especially the research of Dr. Bertil Gardell and his associates. Unfortunately, during the late 1970s Canada experienced a recession and a political shift to conservatism. Consequently, during the 1980s there have been no meaningful workplace health and safety reforms. Further, the article suggests that there is strong resistance by management and government to extension of worker rights in occupational health and safety. All major political parties ground their work environment policies in utilitarian concepts that trade worker health and safety for economic considerations. The author, therefore, argues for the development of an “ethics of the work environment” based upon egalitarian principles, and the transformation of the primary work group into a community of workers who can shape the character of their work environment. Ideally, the relationship between the major “actors” in our industrial relations system ought to be based on obligation instead of the present language of worker protest based on rights. Nonetheless, there is a need to extend and deepen worker rights in the workplace. Finally, the author argues that the appropriate relationship in industry to reflect a democratic work environment is “partnership”–the coming together of the primary work groups as equals.
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Johnston, Carla, and Andrew Spring. "Grassroots and Global Governance: Can Global–Local Linkages Foster Food System Resilience for Small Northern Canadian Communities?" Sustainability 13, no. 4 (February 23, 2021): 2415. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13042415.
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Communities in Canada’s Northwest Territories (NWT) are at the forefront of the global climate emergency. Yet, they are not passive victims; local-level programs are being implemented across the region to maintain livelihoods and promote adaptation. At the same time, there is a recent call within global governance literature to pay attention to how global policy is implemented and affecting people on the ground. Thinking about these two processes, we ask the question: (how) can global governance assist northern Indigenous communities in Canada in reaching their goals of adapting their food systems to climate change? To answer this question, we argue for a “community needs” approach when engaging in global governance literature and practice, which puts community priorities and decision-making first. As part of a collaborative research partnership, we highlight the experiences of Ka’a’gee Tu First Nation, located in Kakisa, NWT, Canada. We include their successes of engaging in global network building and the systemic roadblock of lack of formal land tenure. Moreover, we analyze potential opportunities for this community to engage with global governance instruments and continue connecting to global networks that further their goals related to climate change adaptation and food sovereignty.
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Perrin, Alison D., Gita Ljubicic, and Aynslie Ogden. "Northern Research Policy Contributions to Canadian Arctic Sustainability." Sustainability 13, no. 21 (October 31, 2021): 12035. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su132112035.
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Academic research plays a key role in developing understanding of sustainability issues in the Canadian Arctic, yet northern organizations and governments struggle to find research that is relevant, respectful of local interests, and that builds local capacity. Northern science and research policies communicate expectations for how research should be prioritized, planned, conducted, and disseminated. They discuss northern leadership of research and outline the diverse roles that northerners and northern organizations could fill in research programs and projects. Many of these documents are founded on the need for research to improve environmental, economic, and social sustainability in the Canadian North and provide insight into how academia can support a northern-led Arctic sustainability research agenda. The goal of this study is to examine northern research-policy documents to identify commonalities amongst the goals and priorities of northern organizations and their shared expectations for research in northern Canada. The objectives are to understand how organizations expect researchers to engage in and conduct research, how research programs can align with northern science policy objectives, and how academic research can support policy and decision-making related to sustainability. Through a quantitative content analysis combined with a qualitative thematic analysis, this comprehensive review examines research policy, strategy, guidance, and program documents produced by northern and northern-focused governments and Indigenous organizations. Relationships, partnership, and communication are the foundations of relevant and applicable research, requiring both resources and time for local and partner participation. Our analysis shows that researchers should consider potential policy applications for sustainability research early on in the development of research projects, ensuring that relevant local and policy partners are involved in designing the project and communicating results.
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Samford, Steven, Peter Warrian, and Elena Goracinova. "Public and private goods in the development of additive manufacturing capacity." Business and Politics 19, no. 3 (June 9, 2017): 482–509. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/bap.2017.4.
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AbstractThe promotion of additive manufacturing (AM) as a set of enabling technologies has been a prominent feature of new policies seeking to revitalize manufacturing in developed economies. Because of its differences from traditional manufacturing technologies, small businesses, in particular, face high costs in adopting AM methods. How can governments assist small firms and their innovation ecosystems to make significant leaps in enabling technologies? This paper conceptualizes the challenges faced by groups of small enterprises adopting new technologies and a decentralized policy effort to systematically increase the use of advanced manufacturing technologies. In Canada, funding used by community colleges to create applied research centers has been intended to establish anchors for local “industrial commons” around advanced manufacturing methods. By providing both information and working capital to private sector partners, these community college programs should ideally mitigate challenges to the adoption of AM technologies—the so-called “valley of death”—in local ecosystems. There are many successful individual cases of partnership (i.e., private goods); however, this bottom-up approach seems to fail both as a means of promoting vibrant industrial commons (i.e., public goods) and as a coherent national strategy. We trace the challenges of this approach to principal-agent problems associated with layering new programs upon existing organizations, the density of program participants, and the presence of appropriate technologies.
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Porter, Michelle. "Leading Age-Friendly University Initiatives at a Research Intensive University in Manitoba, Canada." Innovation in Aging 4, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2020): 548. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1791.
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Abstract When Dublin City University introduced the Age-Friendly University (AFU) principles in 2012, the Centre on Aging at the University of Manitoba had been fully immersed in age-friendly cities research, so it was a natural for it to champion the University becoming more age-friendly. As a university-wide research centre, at a research intensive university, the Centre on Aging has built on its strengths to advance the AFU movement. Related to its goals on research, knowledge mobilization, training, and partnerships, it has been able to work with its many Research Affiliates, students and community/university partners to tackle new AFU initiatives. Recent activities have included: an awareness raising workshop/showcase, discussions with Research Affiliates about potential new degree course offerings, an environmental scan of post-secondary inter-generational possibilities, a home-sharing project, workshop development on older learners in the classroom, and provincial community workshops and consultations on communicating about aging and healthy aging. Part of a symposium sponsored by Directors of Aging Centers Interest Group.
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Turner, D., S. Navaratnam, R. Surenthirakumaran, R. Koul, H. Unruh, A. Gadhok, and C. O'Conaill. "Global Health Strategy for Cancer: Think Globally, Act Locally! Building a Collaborative Partnership Between Manitoba (Canada) and Jaffna (Sri Lanka)." Journal of Global Oncology 4, Supplement 2 (October 1, 2018): 152s. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jgo.18.36500.
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Background and context: The number of people diagnosed with cancer worldwide is estimated to double by 2035. The greatest increase is expected in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) due to demographic changes, such as ageing and growing populations, and increasing exposure to risk factors. Approximately 8.8 million people die each year of cancer, or one in 6 deaths globally. The Canadian government has recently renewed its commitment as a progressive global citizen with efforts including improvement of global health equity. CancerCare Manitoba is the provincial agency responsible for cancer and blood disorders, including the delivery of a wide range of clinical services from prevention to screening to treatment and supportive services, as well as cancer surveillance, research, and education. CancerCare Manitoba has identified potential partnerships with governments, nongovernmental organizations, academic institutions, and funders to address current and future challenges related to global cancer control. This includes several LMIC partners who have expressed an interest in working with Manitoba on cancer-related issues. In this presentation, we will describe our plans and early experience with a team from the University of Jaffna, the northern region of Sri Lanka. With a focus initially on surveillance and cancer control planning, there is an excellent opportunity for mutual learning and advancement of programs for cancer surveillance and planning. Aim: To establish a local partnership by connecting Manitoba, Canada with an engaged team from the University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka to advance cancer surveillance and planning, and contribute to the “global war on cancer”. Strategy/Tactics: A phased approach is being taken to address locally identified needs for cancer control. CancerCare Manitoba staff will be part of the mentorship team working with local partners in Jaffna to ensure development of local capacity. Specifically, we will: initiate cancer surveillance and establish a cancer registry in Jaffna (building from a cross-sectional study → hospital based registry → regional registry); analyze data and report on patterns; and establish a strategic plan for cancer control. Program/Policy process: Early planning is underway, involving collaborators from Manitoba and Jaffna. A project proposal has been developed to provide scope and acquire seed funding. Outcomes: Success will be determined based on the context of each program, including: establishing a framework for cancer surveillance; satisfaction of local and international partners (e.g., the Global Cancer Surveillance unit at the International Agency for Research in Cancer); and production of reports as a basis for cancer control. What was learned: Early learnings include the importance of local engagement and dedicated mentorship to advance global health equity, manage challenges around (sustained) funding, and establish a foundation of motivated partners.
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Domingo, Ashleigh, Kerry-Ann Charles, Michael Jacobs, Deborah Brooker, and Rhona M. Hanning. "Indigenous Community Perspectives of Food Security, Sustainable Food Systems and Strategies to Enhance Access to Local and Traditional Healthy Food for Partnering Williams Treaties First Nations (Ontario, Canada)." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 9 (April 21, 2021): 4404. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18094404.
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In partnership with communities of the Williams Treaties First Nations in southern Ontario (Canada), we describe an approach to work with communities, and highlight perspectives of food security and sustainability, including priorities and opportunities to revitalize local food systems as a pathway to food security and food sovereignty. The objectives of our project were: (1) to build a shared understanding of food security and sustainability; and (2) to document community priorities, challenges and opportunities to enhance local food access. Utilizing an Indigenous methodology, the conversational method, within the framework of community-based participatory research, formative work undertaken helped to conceptualize food security and sustainability from a community perspective and solidify interests within the four participating communities to inform community-led action planning. Knowledge generated from our project will inform development of initiatives, programs or projects that promote sustainable food systems. The community-based actions identified support a path towards holistic wellbeing and, ultimately, Indigenous peoples’ right to food security and food sovereignty.