The African Arts & Culture Community Contributor Society under the Issamba Centre published the report entitled “International Decade for People of African Descent (IDPAD) Action Plan for BC” in 2022. This project was funded by Resilience BC. The action plan outlines a comprehensive set of recommendations across various areas to improve representation of People of African Descent (PAD), facilitate capacity-building, and dismantle racist and oppressive structures.
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Deepening PAD’s representation in community safety
Increase the recruitment of PADs
Recommendation 6: The Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General should prioritize and support the appointment of People of African Descent to police boards and other oversight and complaint structures and committees to improve their impartiality, inclusiveness, and adequacy in reflecting BC’s diversity in terms of race, gender, age, and income levels.-
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Improving anti-racism accountability systems in entrepreneurship
Enable data collection to measure and report progress in equity and diversity
Recommendation 34: The Ministry of Jobs, Economic Recovery and Innovation should ensure that the “Race-based” data legislation provides sufficient levers for business associations and chambers of commerce to collect and use data to evaluate equity of awarding decisions of existing funding schemes along the lines of gender, race, and economic background.-
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Deepening PAD representation in post-secondary education
Increase the recruitment of PADs
Recommendation 57: The Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Training must encourage BC’s post-secondary schools to have complaint, recruitment, award, leadership, admission, and promotion committees that have racially and gender diverse membership.-
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Deepening PAD representation in public engagement
Increase the recruitment of PADs
Recommendation 75: The Ministry of Municipal Affairs must prioritize active recruitment of People of African Descent on all governmental and public boards and committees in the province to strengthen diversity and even out opportunities to build experiential knowledge in public governance for People of African Descent. It is strongly recommended that representation be equitable across age, gender and levels of experience or income.-
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Deepening PAD representation in public engagement
Increase the recruitment of PADs
Recommendation 76: The Ministry of Municipal Affairs should invest in initiatives that support and encourage political parties to engage significantly more in the active recruitment of People of African Descent, regardless of gender identity and expression, across all levels of the party from candidature to youth ranks. The Union of Municipalities’ dedicated programming to support gender equality and equity is a useful model to build on.-
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