IPAP

Indigenous Peoples’ Abroad Programme (1999-2006)

IPAP provided opportunities for young professionals from First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities to engage directly in sustainable development initiatives, sharing skills, knowledge and cultural perspectives with Indigenous counterparts in the Small Island Developing States of the Pacific. Funded by Foreign Affairs Canada, the Indigenous Peoples’ Abroad Programme placed nearly one hundred young professionals from every region of Canada with Indigenous-led CSOs, governments, professional associations and multilateral agencies in Fiji, Vanuatu, The Cook Islands, The Solomon Islands and Indonesia as well as in New Zealand Maori communities.

Projects were based on mutually defined priorities and included initiatives promoting good governance and anti-corruption, sustainable resource management, marine and terrestrial environmental policy development. Social Work, health, justice and legal defence, trade policy development, peace-building and youth empowerment.

2003-2004
2004-2005
2005-2006