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Through its extensive global network, GIDT brings leading-edge technology, know-how and best-practices globally to support innovation locally.

Our Current Projects

Champions of Change

Champions of Change Nation Re-Building Program:

This program provides aspiring Indigenous leaders with the opportunity to learn from award-winning businesses leaders and green tech innovators from across Canada and around the world. The course exposes the next generation of leaders to the world of opportunities that exist and gives them the confidence and tools to lead Nations back to self-sustaining, thriving and enterprising economies. This is not just economic development; it is Nation Re-Building, bringing together traditional values with modern technologies and innovations for a new way forward. It is currently being offered to Canadian Indigenous community members.

Fall Registration Now Open

Nation Re-Building

Garifuna Nation Re-Building:

Self-sustainability is central to the Garifuna belief system, both as a collective and as a people, and is paramount to the continued cultural survival of the Garifuna. We are supporting the Garifuna across five countries in Central America in their Nation Re-Building efforts. We are helping them rebuild localized food security and economic development opportunities with a focus on regenerative agriculture, natural healing remedies and superfood products for the healing and wellbeing of the Garifuna people and society at large.

Creating Life Economies

Sápara Nation Life Economy Project:

The Sápara Nation Life Economy Project is focused on bringing back a self-reliant, thriving and enterprising economy to the Sápara Nation in the Amazon. The aim of this project is to demonstrate that a Life Economy can be created and empowered through a full valuation of real wealth using ecosystem mapping technology, blockchain and modern “green” accounting principles. This will support the preservation and sustainable use of balsa trees and the enhancement of local ecosystems within the Sápara territory, and it will create a fund for the implementation of the Sápara School. In this way, the community will be able to reclaim sovereignty over their true wealth, resources and their future. This project will work as a model to inspire others to shift the human story to one that values all life.

Food Resilience

Food System Resilience Program:

We support Indigenous communities and Nations to re-build resilient food systems that can support healthy and thriving people as well as opportunities for developing green local economies. Through our global network, we are developing a hub of food system expertise to share successes within and between Nations. This program is currently focused in Canada.

Land-Based Learning & Healing Spaces

We are working with Indigenous and non-indigenous women, youth and Elders, and collaborating with “Reconciliation through Conservation” Elders and experts from across Canada to create land trusts for returning lands back to Indigenous stewardship. This includes: education, training, micro-economies and healing on the land for the benefit of all Canadians.

The Shuar Waimiaku Project: The Sleeping Anaconda

Shuar families of the community of Buena Esperanza have come together to support the economic development and reclamation of their ancestral lands. Through community-based ecotourism, stewardship of sacred plants, medicines, and sacred sites in their territory, they aim to protect their culture as well as lands for future generations through the creation of Wamiaku centre for Healing, Tourism and Cultural Knowledge Sharing. GIDT is helping them preserve their cultural knowledge and ancestral territory, and support their sustainable economic development within the region through alternative development mechanisms such as community-based eco-tourism.

Our Past Projects

Past Projects

Partnerships for Economic Empowerment Peru

Creating Maya Economies, Belize

Shuar Federation, Ecuador

Shuar Land Mapping, Ecuador

Our Advocacy & Policy Work

We continue to advocate for, educate and bring awareness to better ways of working together and bridging the Indigenous and secular ways of knowing. We are currently working on a number of initiatives around reframing the conversation around land management and conservation through the Indigenous lens. We continue to speak at conferences across Canada and around the world, promoting best-practices and Indigenous decision-making in economic development.

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Join GIDT for @LocalFoodFarmCoops Assembly 2022: P Join GIDT for @LocalFoodFarmCoops Assembly 2022: Pollinators of Change! This year's focus is to imagine how the world can work differently, regeneratively and cooperatively 🌿⁠
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Sign up to participate with our Co-Founder @SoniaMolodecky, Becky Big Canoe, Mike DeGagne, and the Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario! They will be discussing Land Trusts and Alternative Land Access on April 19th from 1 PM-2:30 PM EST. Let’s dig deep into solutions for the future together!⁠
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Click the link in bio to register for this event, or to join one of the many interesting discussions on food sovereignty and cooperative organization structures for building community and local economies!⁠ The assembly runs up until April 29th.⁠
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Swipe through for more information on the topic and speakers 👉
Please Join Us and our friends @bearstandingtal fo Please Join Us and our friends @bearstandingtal for a Virtual Tipi Commemoration event for the Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, Two-Spirit and Gender Diverse. Register here for this Wednesday: 
https://hopin.com/events/s-first-event-f3ca31e8-a7d2-46b0-9561-38dab3143231 

We are pleased to invite you on March 30th for a day of healing and awareness with Bear Standing Tall and Associates. This is an online Virtual Tipi Commemoration event for the Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, Two-Spirit and Gender Diverse. The day will be spent  honouring these Life Givers through Support and Action for Ontario First Nations, Metis, and Inuit Families Survivors as well as Ontario Indigenous front-line workers. 

Guest Speakers include Monica Rutledge Indigenous Constable for Toronto Police Department, guests from BC MMIW Team: Alexandra O'daunaghey, Gladys Radek; Highway of Tears Commemoration project, Becky Big Canoe; followup on inquiry and actions across Canada and more!

The goal of this event is to present Indigenous Voices in a way that will educate and engage our audience of 100 guests from Industry, government and community leaders so we can walk away with concrete ideas on how to move forward with reconciliation surrounding the final report of the MMIWG2S, as well as have a better understanding of the deliberate human and Indigenous rights violations and abuses in violence against Indigenous women in Canada.This conference aims to foster understanding, and allyship of non-indgenous peoples by creating a safe space for these important issues to be understood. 

This event is free to attend, but spots are limited so please register today! 

Tipi Commemoration to be unveiled May 5, 2022 in Honour of our Life Givers: Prayers for their return home @evergreen_brick_works
Check out our Program + Speaker List for our Inter Check out our Program + Speaker List for our Inter-Continental Gathering this Friday! 🌍⁠
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We have an amazing selection of inspiring leaders speaking throughout the day. The event runs from 8AM-3PM and we encourage everyone to join and participate in any part of the day’s events.⁠
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Click the link in bio to register! 👆⁠
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#InterContinentalGathering #IndigenousWisdom #DogonMali #Spirituality #IndigenousSpirituality #CanadianIndigenous #AfricanIndigenous
Swipe through to read the bios of our First Nation Swipe through to read the bios of our First Nations Speakers 👉 ⁠
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It's not too late to sign up for our Inter-Continental Gathering, click the link in bio to register for this free virtual event! 🌎⁠
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Join in and participate in any part of the day’s events 💻⁠
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#InterContinentalGathering #IndigenousWisdom #DogonMali #Spirituality #IndigenousSpirituality #CanadianIndigenous #AfricanIndigenous
Join us for an Inter-Continental Gathering of Indi Join us for an Inter-Continental Gathering of Indigenous Nations virtually on February 25th from 8AM-3PM EST!⁠
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This event will be held between the Dogon People of Mali and various Indigenous Nations of Canada. These Indigenous leaders and knowledge-holders will meet in friendship and conversation focusing on:⁠
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👉 The ways they interact with the land⁠
👉 Their respective forms of spirituality, tradition, and the strategies they have developed to address natural resource extraction and climate issues and realities⁠
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The goal⁠:⁠
🙌 To establish an intercultural dialogue between the Indigenous nations of Mali and Canada⁠
🙌  To build bridges of knowledge and experience between one another⁠
🙌  To strengthen each one's respective leadership and advocacy on natural resource governance, development and trade by creating a harmonized framework of actions⁠
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We welcome you to join us for this event to celebrate this year's African Heritage Month. Click the link in bio to register for this free virtual event!⁠
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#AfricanHeritageMonth #Education #BlackHistoryMonth #Indigenous
GIDT Co-Founders Jerry & @soniamolodecky spoke at GIDT Co-Founders Jerry & @soniamolodecky spoke at an Indigenous Knowledge Collaboration today and if you'd like to watch, a recording will available through the link in bio!

Indigenous knowledge is vital to effective Canada-Africa trade and investment. Successful communities have enabled local businesses and community well-being - grounded in institutions informed by longstanding tradition, knowledge and insights. ⁠ ⁠ 

There will be top private sector and civil society insights, followed by post-panel insights from the Government of Canada - who will outline their support for natural resource development in Africa, and the Canadian business innovators ready to partner.
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