The First Nations Leadership Council (FNLC) and First Nations Emergency Management Services (FNESS) are hosting 8 virtual engagement sessions in January of 2023. The purpose of the engagement is to gather critical, value-added feedback that will inform the development of Sendai-based BC First Nations Regional Action Plan for Disaster Risk Reduction. The need for this important work is endorsed through BCAFN, First Nations Summit, and UBCIC resolutions.

The focus of these sessions will be in relation the following questions:

• What do BC First Nations need to be better informed on and more comprehensive in our understanding of as it relates to disaster risk?
• In what ways can BC First Nations strengthen our governance to better manage disaster risk?
• Where are investments most needed to increase resiliency in First Nations communities and across ancestral territories?
• In what ways could better preparations be made that would lead to more effective responses, recovery, rehabilitation, and reconstruction for BC First Nations?

Register below in the region where you live and work:

Interior Salish Region

The southern interior: Lil’wat-Osoyoos-Xat’sull (North of Williams Lake)

January 11th, 9am – 3pm

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Fraser Valley, Lower Mainland, and East Vancouver Island Region

From Stó:lō to East Vancouver Island up to Cowichan Lake, South Sunshine Coast

January 12th, 9am-3pm

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West Vancouver Island & Sunshine Coast Region

Covering West Vancouver Island to Kitasoo, including Nuxalk, North Sunshine Coast

January 13th 9am-3pm

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Haida-Tsimshian Region

Gitksan Treaty Society to Nisga’a Lisims extending to Haida Gwaii, also including Haisla:

January 25th 9am-3pm

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Kootenay Region

The Ktunaxa region, and nations in the southeast from Shuswap to Tobacco Plains

January 26th 9am-3pm

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Tsilhqot’in Carrier Sekani Region

All of the Tsilhqot’in and Carrier Sekani Regions

January 27th 9am-3pm

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Northern Dene/Tlingit/Cree Region

Covering north and northeast BC including Treaty 8 territory, Kaska Dena Council, and Taku River

January 30th 9am-3pm

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General Engagement Session

January 31st 9am-3pm