1. Ahousaht Comprehensive Community Planning Leader, Guy Louie
Ahousaht Comprehensive Community Planning: Community Presentations January, 2017
Ahousaht Comprehensive Community Planning Leader, Guy Louie

2. Ahousaht Comprehensive Community Planning 2017
It’s Your Plans
It’s Your Children’s Plan
It’s Your Grandchildren’s Plan

3. Guiding Principles to Ahousaht Sovereignty
Iisaakstalth – respecting one another
Hahuupstalth – teach one another
Ya?akstalth – caring for one another
Huupiitstalth – helping one another
Heshook-ish Tsawalk – everthing is one, everything is interconnected

4. Ahousaht First Council

5. Comprehensive Community Planning (CCP): An Introduction
CCP is a community-led approach to planning, where the process is driven and owned by all community members
CCP is an important tool on the path to self-governance and building capacity. It requires a unique approach to planning that can be adapted our culture and traditions
It can help make a positive difference in addressing the specific issues of our community.

7. What is CCP?
A Holistic Process undertaken with broad community participation. A comprehensive approach.
Enables the community to establish a vision and implement projects to achieve this vision
Helps ensure the projects and programs are thought through, make sense and are the best use of resources
Integrates and links all other plans the community has produced

8. What is CCP? con’t A Holistic Process
It is inclusive and represents the perspectives of all members
Addresses key planning areas, all of which are interrelated and interdependent
A unified process that defines CCP as a holistic and integrated exercise that can lead to sustainable development

9. Sustainable Development
Meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs (Brundtland Commission, 1987)
Takes a long term view. It encompasses all areas of our lives.
Sustainable development is the guiding principle of CCP
Ahousaht will decide what sustainability means and how to use CCP to achieve longevity of culture, environment and economy

10. CPP Benefits to the Community
Provides a framework and process for the community to explore it’s core values and to establish a vision for the future and work towards achieving it.
Can create positive change in a proactive way, while protecting the values of the community.
Can improve the performance of the Administration and departments
Enhances the community’s governance tools and capacity

11. Once in place, an effective CCP can:
Empower the community – the community becomes more self-aware and has the tools to respond to change in an effective manner
Improve performance – having a plan leads to informed decision-making. It decreases duplication, enables efficient use of resources and identifies and solves organizational problems
Builds teamwork and expertise – improves communications within the governance, builds managerial and staff skills and supports capacity building efforts

12. CPP Benefits Con’t
Coordinates future development – identifies future community priorities, anticipates future infrastructure and development needs
Celebrates traditions and culture – the cultural aspects of the community will be the focus of the planning process
Creates economic opportunities – sustainable economic opportunities is an essential part of creating a CCP, it will help to attract investment

13. What’s needed to make CCP work (needs that apply to all phases of the process)
Community engagement and support
Capacity building and training
Effective Communications – develop a full communications plan with goals and objectives, key messages, budget, and evaluation

14. Stages of CCP Pre-planning Planning Implementation
Monitoring and Evaluation
Updates and Revisions
Living Document

15. The CCP
Is Comprehensive because it includes planning for all aspects of the community.
Is Community because it is a process that is driven and owned by everyone in the community.

16. CCP Leader Role Support Steering Committee Document Process
Compile Information
Communication
Fund Development
Draft Documents

17. How To Get Involved Steering Committee Participate
Meetings/Gatherings/Activities
Have A Voice

18. Comments and Questions?
New sub-division DL363
Comments and Questions?
Contact Info:
Guy Louie, Community Planning Leader
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