Executive and Indigenous Affairs

GNWT launches Open Data Portal

The Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) has launched a new Open Data Portal to provide a single point of access for existing GNWT data resources.

The Open Data Portal makes government-held data available to the public in accessible and user-friendly formats and supports the GNWT’s commitment to release timely and accurate information in a consistent, transparent, and reliable manner.

The Open Data Portal currently includes close to 300 datasets and will be updated quarterly.

GNWT announces advisory committee to strengthen not-for-profit and charitable sector in the NWT

The Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) will establish a Not-for-Profit Sector External Advisory Committee to provide independent advice and recommendations to the GNWT to help strengthen the not-for-profit and charitable sector in the Northwest Territories (NWT).

The scope of the Committee’s work will include:

Caroline Wawzonek: Government of the Northwest Territories Action Plan for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Calls for Justice

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Madam Speaker, at the appropriate time today, I will table Changing the Relationship, the final Action Plan in response to the Calls for Justice on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ People.

At its core, this action plan is about relationships. Our relationships with institutions, governments, people, and history.

2022 National Day for Truth and Reconciliation Funding Deadline extended to September 15

The Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) has extended the deadline for National Day for Truth and Reconciliation grant funding.

The new deadline for applications is September 15, 2022.

The GNWT is making grant funding of up to $2500 available to support events that commemorate the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on September 30, 2022.

NWT Premier seeks shared economic, environmental and social priorities at international Arctic forum in Greenland

Northwest Territories Premier Caroline Cochrane joins an international gathering of key Northern leaders at the 2022 Arctic Circle Greenland Forum in Nuuk, Greenland, from August 27 to 29, 2022.

Subjects covered at the forum range from the Arctic’s growing geopolitical profile and Indigenous food innovation to the use of Big Data in tourism management. The forum will feature workshops on priority topics for the GNWT including Arctic security, sustainable economic and infrastructural development, accessible housing, and climate change mitigation.

2022 National Day for Truth and Reconciliation Funding – Call for Applications

The Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) is making grant funding of up to $2500 available to support events that commemorate the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on September 30, 2022. 

This initiative provides special, application-based grant funding to support Indigenous governments and Indigenous organizations to plan and deliver National Day for Truth and Reconciliation events in communities and locations across the Northwest Territories (NWT).  

The deadline for applications is September 2, 2022

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