Nation Rebuilding

Developing effective institutions of government is a key characteristic of Nation Rebuilding, as is aligning culture, supporting leadership development, strategic orientations and assertion of sovereignty.

Developing Institutional and Leadership Capacity

Carden Consulting’s developmental consulting team specializes in developing institutional and leadership capacity, which requires pro-active planning to develop integrated systems of governing, equipped with nation rebuilding understandings that revitalize First Peoples values, traditional knowledge, and customary practices, based upon current best practices, and includes:

Strengthening Good Governance

Community Safety By-Law planning and development, good governance training, governance policy planning and development (utilizing a strengths-based approach that supports revitalizing ancestral governance, culture, and language revitalization) to strengthen culturally relevant, sovereign, capable governing institutions.

Strategic Planning

Strategic Planning, based upon best practices that support effective implementation, reporting and monitoring. This includes establishing/revitalizing the values, vision, mission as well as goals, objectives, responsibility centres, deadlines, and resourcing needs.

Research

Primary engagement with community and staff, and secondary research based upon an organizations work, for organizational development including laws (e.g., Custom Election Code, Membership Code, Safety) and policies (e.g., HR Policies, HR Strategy, Financial Management Policies) to be a capable governing institution

Training & Capacity Development

For First Nations, Good Corporate Governance for their Economic Development team, and with First Nation partners in the public and private sector (e.g., Right Relations Training)

Committed to providing service excellence

At all times, our developmental consulting team is committed to providing service excellence, using indigenous methodologies, action research approaches, indigenous methods, and building capacity at every step for the benefit of current and future generations.