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Facilitating Trade and Economic Development
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Assisting Yupik and Other Indigenous Peoples in Chukotka
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Arctic Trade
ICC has in the past had much success in working with other indigenous peoples around the world and in providing assistance through international development projects. The field of international development continues to be a concrete opportunity where Inuit businesses and organizations can both benefit and be of assistance to others. The term 2002 2006 saw two ICC projects wind down, that of the Belize Indigenous Training Institute (BITI), and the Institutional Building for Northern Aboriginal Peoples in Russia (INRIPP-2). The BITI project, which included a co-management initiative, resulted in ICC and other Inuit businesses and organizations (introduced by ICC) assisting several indigenous groups in Belize. International aid agencies such as the Danish International Development Agency (Danida) and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) were supportive of ICC in the Belize project.
Since 2002, ICC has seen the decade-long INRIPP projects second phase through to its successful conclusion, funded by the Canadian International Development Agency and in partnership with Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North. INRIPP-II was completed in 2005, and has left a substantial legacy of institutional capacity for economic and social development across a vast region of the Russian North. In INRIPP-IIs Aboriginal Component, ICC contributed project management expertise to assist RAIPON in the establishment of the Russian Indigenous Training Center (RITC).
ICC coordinated consultants and communities across the Arctic to share a wealth of experience in community mobilization, economic development, Aboriginal training and education and fundraising. RITC remains a thriving institution with a full-time staff and a clear revenue stream to maintain it into the future, providing practical hands-on programs in economic development and a multitude of support services catered to Aboriginal entrepreneurship.
ICC has also been supportive of the Greenland-based International Training Center of Indigenous Peoples (ITCIP), which provides training to indigenous peoples from around the world in how the international system (organizations, international law, development agencies, international covenants) impacts indigenous peoples at the local level.
In 2006, ICC made a presentation in Europe on its contaminants work. As a result, Earth Justice in Europe recognized the importance of the efforts of ICC in developing civil society capacity to engage in international organizations. The representatives asked if ICC could assist them in their quest to better organize and advocate for their indigenous and civil society in Europe, such as with the Roma, among others. Many other opportunities exist and which present themselves from time to time.
