Impact and charitable agreements (IBAs) become an industrial standard for resource development projects that are located or affect traditional land and aboriginal rights. [1] Agreements often contain employment and contract provisions that prioritize training, recruitment and contracting for Aboriginal people. Very similar to the IBAs (and in some cases the term is interchangeable with an IBA), but some parts of Canada have specific requirements that are defined in legislation (z.B.dem Yukon Oil and Gas Act) or land agreements. The Yukon and Kaska Nation government, for example, has provided a brief model for the performance agreement, which is publicly available in www.emr.gov.yk.ca/oilandgas/pdf/template_benefitsagreement.doc, which is why benefits are often not adequately distributed and the existence of “wealth poverty” continues in many Aboriginal communities in Canada. In response to these shortcomings and environmental concerns, political conflicts have intensified in resource development. As a result, there is a growing recognition that it is important to obtain community support (i.e. a “social license”) for individual development projects. Bilateral private negotiations between the private sector and potentially affected Aboriginal communities, also known as Impact and Charitable Agreements (IBAs), have been gradually used to obtain this much-loved “social licence”. Due to their recent development and the variability of their results, many issues remain related to the NIA, including how they are used in conjunction with other public engagement processes and their contribution, if any, to collaborative land-use planning processes.
This summary describes the results of my Master`s extensive research, which represents a current state of knowledge about the interactions and effectiveness of IBAs in creating and facilitating collaborative planning. Impact and charitable agreements (IBA) are typical when a major project is proposed for development on traditional surfaces. ACCORDS are formal and written agreements that help to address the predicted effects of industrial development on traditional lands and to ensure economic benefits to neighbouring Aboriginal communities affected by this development. While the toolkit focuses primarily on mining, many of the themes and processes in the toolkit are relevant to agreements in other industrial sectors and contexts, including protected areas, oil and gas, hydropower and forestry.
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