Document 6523064

Regional Collaboration:
Why Do Communities Come Together?
presented to
2007 Business and Expansion International Conference
June 6-8, 2007
presented by
Robert Annis & Marian Beattie
Rural Development Institute, Brandon University
Russ McPherson & Denise Guillet
WaterWolf Regional Round Table
Overview
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Communities planning, coordinating
& working together regionally
A multi-community collaboration model
developed in Manitoba & taken elsewhere
in Canada
The application of this model in
Saskatchewan – WaterWolf Regional
Round Table
Challenges for regional planning &
governance
Discussion
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Communities Planning, Coordinating
& Working Together Regionally
Harold Baker’s findings from his 1991-92 study on multicommunity collaboration in the US, Ireland, France & Spain:
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Multi-community activity appears to be undertaken in order
for smaller communities to survive in difficult times and to
enhance development opportunities under these
circumstances.
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There is a place in the community for both competition and
collaboration, if they are kept in appropriate balance.
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Central resource agencies have important policy, facilitating,
resource, and education functions to play.
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Although local government bodies should be considered
important…it is equally important to involve other civic,
private and voluntary groups.
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Community leaders will need time and patience to convince
communities that it is beneficial to work together.
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Communities Planning, Coordinating
& Working Together Regionally(continued)
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Leaders…should be selected with care, with attention to the
scope of their vision and their collaborating skills.
It is essential that a leadership development program be
initiated as an integral and ongoing feature.
The most difficult period in the formation…is the “formation
period”, especially during the second to fifth year.
The success of the microregion that is involved in multicommunity collaboration appears quite dependent on the
support of other developmental entities, especially the more
central sub-province, province and national levels.
Multi-community collaboration experience…appears to have
had little influence on local government boundaries.
The conventional sectorial development approach should be
balanced appropriately with the territorial development which
is fostered by multi-community collaboration.
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Repulse
Bay
Community Collaboration Project (CCP)
in Manitoba/Nunavut 1999-2004
Coral
Harbour
Baker Lake
The Hudson Bay Neighbours
Regional Round Table (RRT)
formed in 2002 and is a unique
partnership among northern
Manitoba and Nunavut
communities. http://hbn.cimnet.ca.
Formed it October 1999, the
Northern Vision Regional Round
Table was the first RRT:
http://northernvision.cimnet.ca.
Chesterfield Inlet
Rankin Inlet
Whale Cove
Arviat
Northlands
Dene First
Nation
Formed in 2001 Bayline
Regional Round Table took its
name from the Bayline rail line
which connects the
communities:
Churchill
South
Indian
Lake
Lynn Lake
Granville
Lake
Tadoule Lake
Leaf
Rapids
Gilliam
Wabowden
War Lake
Pikwitonei
Thicket Portage
Cormorant
Canada
http://baylinerrt.cimnet.ca.
The Southwest Round Table
emerged as an agro-Manitoba
RRT in April of 2000:
http://swrrt.cimnet.ca.
Fox Lake
Ilford
Souris
Boissevain
Deloraine
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Glenboro
Baldur
Killarney
Winnipeg
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Yukon Regional Round Table
Nacho Nyak Dun
First Nation
Little Salmon
Carmacks First Nation
At a meeting held in Teslin on April 4th
2006, the Yukon RRT was officially
established and a MOU was signed with
RDI. The YRRT
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has membership from First Nation,
incorporated and unincorporated
communities with no size limit
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focuses on action and implementing
projects
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is collaborative and based on
common interests
Faro
Canada
Carmacks
Champagne and Aishihik
First Nations
Whitehorse
Mount
Lorne
Carcross Tagish First Nation
Haines
Junction
Atlin
Teslin
Teslin Tlingit Council
Taku River Tlingit
First Nation
Watson Lake
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Regional Round Table
Saskatchewan
Canada
In 2005, WaterWolf RRT
was created as a regional
services delivery model to
increase capacity to assess
needs and deliver services
from a community-led
approach.
RRT committees were then
established for 5 projects:
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Biggar
RM of
Perdue
Saskatoon
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RM of Rudy
Kenaston
Bladworth
Davidson
Elbow
RM of Huron
Lucky Lake
RM of Maple Bush
Beechy
Central Butte
RM of Enfield
RM of Fertile Valley
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Regina
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A river valley association
A regional water technician
Danielson Park pilot project
Infrastructure & investment
development & tax sharing
GIS and land use planning
WaterWolf
Regional Round Table
A CCP RRT
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CCP Model Outcomes
Communities and governments are
collaborating in new and different ways to:
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create new and different partnerships and
trusting relationships between and among
communities and governments,
strengthen capacity in the RRTs, communities
and regions,
strengthen leadership capacity,
explore new decision-making and governance
models, and
evaluate, document and communicate progress.
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CCP Study Group
Purpose and Opportunities
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Provide feedback on the evaluation frameworks
that were developed by the RRTs and Advisory
Groups.
Provide feedback on the roll-up of all the
evaluation frameworks of the CCP Model project.
Explore linkages to existing and future research
in multi-community collaboration and regional
governance.
Provide a forum for researchers to discuss multicommunity collaboration and regional
governance.
CCP Study Group
Membership
Ken Bessant (Brandon University)
David Douglas (University of Guelph)
Mark Drabenstott (Rural Policy Research Institute, USA)
Tom Johnson (University of Missouri-Columbia)
Diane Martz (Prairie Women’s Centre of Excellence, Saskatoon)
Bill Reimer (Concordia University, Montreal)
Nicole Vaugeois (Malaspina University-College, Nanaimo)
Robert Annis (Rural Development Institute, Brandon University)
Marian Beattie (Rural Development Institute, Brandon University)
Ryan Gibson (Rural Development Institute, Brandon University)
Challenges for Regional Governance
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What are the ‘voids’ that serve as trigger conditions for
emergent regional systems?
What are the critical phase change(s) factors in rural regional
governance systems?
What is the influence of negotiated power-sharing
process(es) for local governments?
How do rural regional governance systems design decisionmaking processes in rural regional governance systems?
How does tension and resolution between legacy and
emergent negotiated power of rural regional governance get
resolved?
How are assets, conditions, initial contexts and changes of
communities collaborating together and/or involved in new
governance systems measured?
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RDI Publications
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References
Annis, R.C. (2006). Community collaboration project CCP: Empowering
communities and building capacity project description.
Annis, R.C. (2006). Rural development institute annual report.
Annis, R. C., Beattie, M., & Gibson R. (2006). Rural Development Institute's
regional round table handbook for the community collaboration process.
Annis, R. C., Beattie, M., & Gibson R. (2006). CCP factsheet.
Baker, H. (1993). Building multi-community rural development partnerships. in
The structure, theory and practice of partnerships in rural development.
Gibson, R. & Annis, R. C. (2006). Regional round table overview.
Walsh, D., & Annis, R. C. (2004). Reflections on Manitoba's community
collaboration project, 1999-2004.
Websites
RDI: www.brandonu.ca/rdi
WaterWolf: www.waterwolf.org
Government of Canada’s Rural Secretariat: www.rural.gc.ca
For Additional Information
Robert Annis
204-571-8513
Marian Beattie
204-571-8554
Russ McPherson 306-867-9557
Denise Guillet
306-867-9566
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
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