Tamara Krawchenko attended a side meeting of the World Indigenous Business Forum on October 11th

Tamara Krawchenko (Assistant Professor, School of Public Administration) attended a side meeting of the World Indigenous Business Forum on October 11th, 2019 hosted by Indigenous Services Canada in Vancouver. The purpose of the meeting was to bring together Indigenous leaders and business owners along with public servants from Canada, News Zealand and Australia to discuss the findings of the 2019 OECD report Linking Indigenous Communities with Regional Development. Participants discussed the key issues facing their own countries and communities and how Indigenous economies can gain visibility and be better supported/enabled by public policies. Discussions on how to activate these opportunities focussed on four interconnected elements:

  1. good data;
  2. enabling policies for entrepreneurship and small business;
  3. instruments to mobilise land for development, and;
  4. effective and inclusive governance.

There is a lot of interest in continuing this work and—as was highlighted in the World Indigenous Business Forum—a great deal to learn from  comparative practices worldwide.

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