Planning Process
From the beginning of this Partnership, we have worked to build a plan for settlement that was driven from start to finish by the community. Through a participatory planning framework, the community planted seeds at our very first Assembly that grew and evolved into the plan we have presented here. At the Assemblies, community members identified the challenges of settlement and immigration, then organized them into themes, and then proposed goals for our plan. From there, we brought various stakeholders together at planning tables to identify strategies and actions that would help us achieve those goals, and form the Strategic Action Plan.
Timeline
- Winter 2009 – preliminary discussions on building a partnership
- August 2009 – KIP Project Manager and Researcher begin work; formation of Steering Advisory Group
- September 30, 2009 – first KIP Assembly
- October-November 2009 – focus groups and interviews with newcomers, service agencies and businesses
- December 1, 2009 – second KIP Assembly
- January-June 2010 – Planning Tables
- February 26, 2010 – Leader’s Summit
- July-October 2010 – Finalization of Strategic Action Plan, development of KIP website
- October 5 2010 – Inaugural KIP Council meeting
- November 12 2010 – Official launch of KIP Strategic Action Plan
