In Spring 2023, Sa̱nala was hired to support the joint mandates of Ministries of Emergency Management and Climate Readiness (EMCR) and Environment and Climate Change Strategy’s Climate Action Secretariat (CAS) by facilitating engagements with Indigenous partners to co-create the Disaster and Climate Risk and Resilience Assessment (DCRRA) framework.

The framework is a co-development approach for a provincial assessment, and the identification, prioritization, and selection of disaster and climate risks. 

Sa̱nala’s engagement consisted of four virtual workshop sessions with Indigenous partners in BC, focused on the DCRRA framework design, hazard selection, and the proposed co-development approach. 

Final deliverables for this phase of work included a report titled “Connecting Risk and Resilience: Perspectives from First Nations and First Nation Organizations on the Province of BC’s proposed approach to co-developing a disaster and climate risk and resilience assessment framework,” as well as a proposed year-long engagement plan as a path forward.