With more than 25 years of experience working with Indigenous communities, GGI is committed to the principles of Truth and Reconciliation, directly aligned with several of our organizational values (integrity, accountability, inclusion, and social responsibility).

We uphold our commitment to working collaboratively and respectfully with our Indigenous partners and clients onculturally responsive research and program evaluation projects.

We continue to learn from our relationships with Indigenous communities to offer a high standard of service in meeting client needs. Our commitment to Truth and Reconciliation is evident through the following actions:

  1. Relationship building with Indigenous partners and clients: Based on our commitment to mutual learning and respect for Indigenous self-determination, GGI is committed to working with Indigenous sub-contractors with specialized skills, sector-specific knowledge and lived experience of Indigenous realities, whenever possible. We believe in respecting Indigenous self-determination in research and evaluation and work to ensure the free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC) of Indigenous Peoples at every step of the research and evaluation process.
  2. Our capacity-building approach to data collection: Our approach to data collection aims to support Indigenous leadership and prevent extractive research and evaluation practices. At GGI, we uphold the principles of ownership, control, access and possession (OCAP) of Indigenous data. Members of our research and evaluation team have completed formal training on Indigenous research methods and OCAP principles with experience applying these to research and evaluation design.
  3. Supporting the inclusion of Indigenous Peoples and knowledges in the program evaluation sector: Each year, GGI provides funding to support the attendance of an Indigenous person at the Canadian Evaluation Society’s annual conference. We are currently in the process of launching a new initiative that will support Indigenous students in evaluation-related fields of post-secondary study (more info to come).

GGI is a majority Indigenous-owned consulting firm.