Governance Reference Documents
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Indian Government Support Programs
Band Advisory Services, Band Employee Benefits, Band Support Funding, Professional and Institutional Development, and Tribal Council Funding.
Tools for Governance
Costing Studies
- PriceWaterhouse – Study on the Cost of the Legislative Components of Governance – September 16, 1997
- PriceWaterhouseCoopers – A Comparative Analysis of INAC Funding for the Five Large First Nations and All Other First Nations in Ontario - 2006
- Maslove, Allan M. – An Approach to Costing Core Government for First Nations – June 2008
- Fiscal Realities Economists – The True Cost of First Nation Government
- Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada – Funding of First Nations Basic Services: Cost Drivers Project - Indian Government Support Programs
- Elias Karagiannis, Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada – The Cost of Government in Small Size Municipalities - September 30, 2003
AANDC Backgrounders
- The Exploratory Process on Indian Registration, Band Membership and Citizenship
- Fact Sheet - Taxation by Aboriginal Governments
- Highlights from the Royal Commission Report on Aboriginal Peoples
- Indian Act Elections
- Remuneration of Elected Officials in First Nation Communities
- Self-Government
Other Resources for Governance
- Aboriginal Financial Officers Association of Canada (AFOA)
- Aboriginal Financial Officers Association Of Alberta
- Aboriginal Financial Officers Association of British Columbia
- Aboriginal Financial Officers Association of Manitoba
- Aboriginal Financial Officers Association of Saskatchewan
- British Columbia First Nations Public Service Initiative (FNPSI)
- CESO
- First Nations in British Columbia Portal - Leadership & Governance
First Nations Fiscal Management Act Institutions
- First Nations Finance Authority
- First Nations Financial Management Board (FMB)
- First Nations Tax Commission (FNTC)
- Governance Development Network
- Institute on Governance
- Global Development Research Center
- Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development at Harvard University and the Native Nations Institute
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
- UNDP Supporting Capacity Development
- Governance for sustainable human development: A UNDP policy document (1997)
The World Bank
Every year, hundreds of First Nations communities hold a leadership selection process, which takes the form of, in most cases, an election. The chart below shows the current gender breakdown of chiefs and councillors on First Nations band councils across Canada as of the indicated date.
| Region | Male Chiefs | Female Chiefs | Male Councillors | Female Councillors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlantic | 24 | 10 | 151 | 70 |
| (Prince Edward Island) | (1) | (1) | (4) | (1) |
| (New Brunswick) | (11) | (4) | (67) | (33) |
| (Newfoundland/Labrador) | (4) | (0) | (13) | (9) |
| (Nova Scotia) | (9) | (4) | (69) | (26) |
| Alberta | 43 | 1 | 179 | 47 |
| British Columbia | 143 | 40 | 464 | 292 |
| Manitoba | 38 | 5 | 141 | 44 |
| Northwest Territories | 10 | 1 | 31 | 24 |
| Ontario | 90 | 25 | 433 | 189 |
| Québec | 32 | 3 | 101 | 68 |
| Saskatchewan | 60 | 6 | 336 | 56 |
| Yukon | 10 | 4 | 23 | 26 |
| SummaryFootnote 1 | 451 | 94 | 1,861 | 815 |