Impact and Benefit Agreement (IBA) Revenue Allocation Strategies for Indigenous Community DevelopmentImpact and Benefit Agreement • April 24th, 2014
Contract Type FiledApril 24th, 2014Abstract: This article analyzes the different modes of resource revenue allocation and their impacts on Indigenous communities and sustainable development. AGer a literature review of the different distribution and investment models and their positive and negative impacts for communities, we assess each model’s level of sustainability. In the second section, we present the results of a survey and follow-up interviews conducted with twenty-one representatives of the forty- two Canadian First Nations that had signed an Impact and Benefit Agreement by 2016. In most surveyed communities, the trust funds are directly managed by the political authority thus providing no insulation from political influence. The survey also shows that some Indigenous communities are investing in programs that should be funded by the federal and provincial or territorial governments, which attests to the chronic lack of investment in Indigenous communities in Canada. Finally, whatever the choice of distribution o