Indigenous Employment and Skills Strategies in Canada by OECD

Author:OECD
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: socialissues/regions/industry/employment
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2018-09-23T16:00:00+00:00

MAWIW Council

Access to education and lack of educational qualifications are significant barriers for Indigenous People to achieve labour market success in New Brunswick. Working in partnership with Joint Economic Development Initiative (JEDI), the MAWIW Council constantly collaborates on how to effectively deliver services to its First Nations communities. Programmes and services provided by the Joint Economic Development Initiative (JEDI) and the community economic development office attempt to tackle these obstacles.

JEDI focused its workforce development efforts through the New Brunswick Aboriginal Information and Communications Technology (NBAICT) project, which was partially funded by ESDC through the Skills and Partnerships Fund from June 2011 to March 2017 JEDI served 380 total clients of which 94 were employed at the end of the intervention and 12 returned to school. Completed courses included: Apprenticeship, Security Training, Archaeology Field Technician training, Trades orientation, Workplace Essential Skills and Worksite Safety courses. In addition, JEDI partnered with CCNB and Rasakti to train 10 Indigenous machinists. The current students will be offered employment with Rasakti at the end of their training and 10 additional machinists are expected to begin training in January 2018 (Joint Economic Development Intiative , 2018)

The success of the programme is due to JEDI’s strong partnership with Professional Quality Assurance and its sister company PLATO (Professional Aboriginal Testing Organization). The fully-accredited software tester training course has received great interest from Indigenous People across New Brunswick and has resulted in over 40 of the graduates working in full-time positions with PLATO Testing in Fredericton and Miramichi. This training will continue on for the next four years under the Indigenous Innovation Partnership Program (IIP) which is supported through SPF funding. JEDI has also offered programmes to Indigenous learners in the emerging and growing Information, Communications and Technology (ICT) sector in New Brunswick (see Box 2.1).

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