Ending the cycle of poverty, which disproportionately affects 1 in 4 First Nation individuals in Canada, by implementing self-determined, community-led economic development, enhancing social protection systems and ensuring equitable access to essential services, land tenure and education.
Goal 1. Ending the Cycle of Poverty.Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms in First Nation communities.
Ending hunger by enhancing food production and self-reliance, improving access to traditional food systems, supporting community-led agriculture, protecting traditional knowledge, and improving infrastructure for food storage and distribution.
Goal 2. Ending Hunger and Increasing Food Security.Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.
Ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all, which involves addressing deep disparities in health outcomes, such as higher infant mortality and lower life expectancy for Indigenous populations. Key focus areas include improving access to culturally appropriate care, mental health services, and traditional foods while mitigating environmental threats.
Goal 3. Ensuring Healthy Lives and Promoting Well-being for All at All Ages.Goal 3. Addressing deep disparities in health outcomes.
Ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education by implementing culturally diverse pedagogy, securing stable, community-specific funding, and fostering local control over education systems at all levels of the educational system.
Goal 4. Implementing Culturally Responsive Pedagogy.Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.
Achieving gender equality by returning to a matriarchal societal culture in which women are loved, and their bio-psycho-social capacity and role is honored, respected and celebrated. It includes eliminating violence against Indigenous women, ensuring representation in leadership, and implementing the 5% mandatory minimum target for federal procurement contracts.
Goal 5. Empowering Women and Girls.Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
Ensuring the availability of clean drinking water and sanitation by investing in infrastructure, and training local water operators to end recurrent drinking water advisories through improved testing, maintenance and sustainable funding.
Goal 6. Ensuring the Availability of Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation.Goal 6: Ensuring the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation systems.
Ensuring access to clean energy by investing in community-driven projects, prioritizing renewable sources like solar, hydro, and wind to replace diesel, building local capacity and skills, securing long-term capital, ensuring regulatory clarity, and fostering clean energy partnerships.
Goal 7. Funding Clean Energy Projects.Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.
Achieving economic reconciliation for indigenous peoples through self-determination, investment in community-owned infrastructure, and development of a hybrid economy that addresses economic disparities, supports Indigenous entrepreneurship, and ensures a green, equitable transition for First Nation communities.
Goal 8. Addressing Economic Disparities.Goal 8. Addressing economic disparities and equitable transition.
Promoting inclusive and sustainable industrialization and innovation through community-led stewardship and long-term sustainability efforts, that build resilient infrastructures and foster innovation, and support connectivity, rather than rapid-resource exploitation, extraction and depletion. Key efforts include developing green, climate-resilient infrastructure, improving access to high-speed internet access, and leveraging traditional knowledge for technological innovation.
Goal 9. Building Resilient Infrastructure and Fostering Innovation.Goal 9. Building resilient infrastructure, promoting sustainable industrialization and fostering innovation.
Reducing inequalities within and among communities by addressing systemic racism, implementing anti-racisms strategies in public systems, including the health and justice systems, and housing industry.
Goal 10. Reducing Systemic Discrimination in Public Systems.Goal 10: Reducing inequalities within and among communities.
Making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, and resilient by investing in community-focused anti-violence campaigns that are culturally appropriate, and promote and protect human-rights and freedoms.
Goal 11. Increasing Community Safety and Security.Goal 11: Making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe and violence free.
Reducing waste, fostering circular economies, and ensuring sustainable practices in collaboration with First Nation communities. Key initiatives include funding for on-reserve waste management, promoting traditional hunting and food security systems, and establishing a National Benefits-Sharing Framework to advance economic reconciliation.
Goal 12. Ensuring Responsible Consumption and Production Patterns.Goal 12: Ensuring responsible consumption and production patterns.
Taking urgent action to combat climate change by supporting programs that enable First Nation communities, such as the Indigenous Guardians program, which empowers communities to manage traditional lands and ecosystems, monitor ecological health, and implement nature-based solutions to climate change.
Goal 13. Taking Urgent Action to Combat Climate Change.Goal 13: Taking urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
Strengthening Indigenous stewardship of marine and coastal ecosystem management, by integrating traditional knowledge to reduce marine pollution, protect ecosystems, reduce ocean acidification, and end overfishing to maintain healthy, productive oceans essential for food, oxygen, and climate regulation. Key initiatives include co-managing marine areas, recognizing Indigenous fishing rights, and creating Indigenous-led conservation projects.
Goal 14. Strengthening Indigenous-Led Marine Conservation Efforts.Goal 14. Conserving and sustainably using the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development.
Protecting, restoring and promoting the sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, forests and biodiversity by promoting Indigenous-led conservation efforts, that apply traditional knowledge to manage forests, restore degraded ecosystems, and protect species habitats.
Goal 15. Protecting Terrestrial Ecosystems.Goal 15. Protecting, restoring and promoting sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems.
Promoting, protecting and upholding the constitutional and fundamental rights of Indigenous peoples, by addressing systemic racism, promoting self-determination, and reducing the overrepresentation of Indigenous peoples in the justice system.
Goal 16. Promoting Indigenous Governance and Self-Determination.Goal 16. Promoting, protecting and upholding the constitutional and fundamental rights of Indigenous peoples.
Strengthening sustainable development by fostering nation-to-nation relationships with First Nation Tribal Governments and Local Authorities, and supporting indigenous-led projects, all the while ensuring that Meaningful consultation are held; Accommodations are arranged and upheld; and Free, Prior and Informed Consent is obtained before making decisions that could reshape or destroy the landscape.
Goal 17. Advancing Reconciliation by Reducing Inequalities and Enabling Productive Nation-to-Nation Relations.Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development.