What is the Relational Accountability in Partnerships Program?
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ENGOs are keen to connect with Indigenous and racialized communities, organizations, and Indigenous governments. However, the ENGO sector has long prioritized the needs and voices of White and European people in the name of “conservation”, while exerting and perpetuating colonial violence against Indigenous Peoples and their lands and ignoring the voices of racialized peoples.

ENGOs are now grappling with the fact that they are trying to build relationships with Indigenous and racialized communities who they may have previously harmed at worst or ignored at best. Authentic community engagement requires more than sending a cold email to an organization or community that you have never engaged with before. The solution? Embedding Indigenous values, principles, and ways of knowing is the tide that raises all boats, conferring collective benefits.

Our Relational Accountability in Partnerships program gives ENGO staff the opportunity to be on a learning journey with one another to take a step back and explore how and why taking accountability in relationships is central to building community partnerships, in a good way.

Apply and More details: https://www.sustainabilitynetwork.ca/events/relational-accountability-in-partnerships-program