Resolution number
10
Whereas
- Community-based organizations across the country engage in research activities around the issues of immigrant and refugee services;
- There is a severe lack in funding these research activities at the grass roots level;
- Funders usually contract out research on immigrant and refugee services delivery to private consultants and academics;
- Research results are in consequence inadequate and not pertinent to the real needs of immigrant/refugee and ethnocultural communities across Canada;
Therefore be it resolved
That the CCR:
- Call upon all funders and particularly the federal government to recognize the value of research activities carried out by community-based immigrant and refugee organizations;
- Call upon all funders and particularly the federal government to provide financial resources for community-based organizations to continue to improve and expand research activities on immigrant/refugee service delivery;
- Continue to provide at the semiannual consultation a forum for community-based organizations to present the results of and exchange information on the various research activities across the different regions.
Working Group
Immigration and Settlement