KWIKWASUT'INUXW HAXWA'MIS FIRST NATION: federal grants and contributions

Gwa’yas’dums Village is a remote coastal island community where Kwikwasut’inuxw Haxwa’mis First Nation is established. The Village is at risk of coastal flooding and shoreline erosion due to sea-level rise and storm surges. The project comprises two key elements: the building of a riprap (rock armour) and boardwalk as well as a bioengineered slope. Both of these assets would comprise of natural materials and would mitigate coastal flooding and related impacts to the community’s critical infrastructure and essential services.

• Department of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities
• Disaster Mitigation & Adaptation Fund

The project is mostly related to decreasing greenhouse gas emissions through the demonstration of technologies to reduce fossil fuel use for heat and/or power generation in Canada's remote communities and/or remote industrial sites.

• Natural Resources Canada
• Aboriginal Economic Development - Strategic Partnerships Initiative (AANDC)

The objective of this Project is to undertake community engagement and knowledge building that supports reducing fossil fuel usage in a remote Indigenous community.

• Natural Resources Canada
• Clean Energy in Rural and Remote Communities Deployment Program component

The objective of this project is to develop an agriculture and food security plan to increase food security and economic opportunities for KHFN members living in the village of Gwa'Yas'Dums on Gilford Island.

• Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
• Indigenous Agriculture and Food Systems Initiative (IAFSI)

• Disaster Mitigation & Adaptation Fund

All grants from Department of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities

• Aboriginal Economic Development - Strategic Partnerships Initiative (AANDC)
• Clean Energy in Rural and Remote Communities Deployment Program component

All grants from Natural Resources Canada

• Indigenous Agriculture and Food Systems Initiative (IAFSI)

All grants from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

• Aboriginal Economic Development - Strategic Partnerships Initiative (AANDC)

• Clean Energy in Rural and Remote Communities Deployment Program component

• Disaster Mitigation & Adaptation Fund

• Indigenous Agriculture and Food Systems Initiative (IAFSI)