In Partnership with Community Futures Triple R on this project are Community Futures Winnipeg River and
CDEM.
The Migration Network is the opportunity to engage people involved in it into a collective approach
particularly focused on the migration, reception and integration of “neo-rural inhabitants”, as well as on other problems faced by rural municipalities. The Network operates on a number of fronts, including the staging of a major promotional event, the Showcasing of Eastern Manitoba, which, although it constitutes its main thrust, is part of a comprehensive effort. Showcasing Eastern Manitoba features activities that contribute to rural community capacity building. Organizing the activity requires the implementation and maintenance of a partner/ collaborator network identified as a Migration Network.
A community’s participation in the network and the Showcase is a collective operation. Indeed, its members must initiate a reflection on the state of the territory’s demographic situation, then select the strategy to be implemented in order to compensate for the demographic deficit and, if applicable, develop the elements of the reception, family, economic, or cultural policies. Those policies are defined at the local level according to the territories’ social and economic characteristics, singularities and realities, as well as the local players’ choices. The approach is therefore a partnership.
The Migration Network/ Showcase of Eastern Manitoba model consists of five activities, all under the responsibility of a coordinating organization, which sees to the implementation of a steering committee consisting of various partners. This committee is working on developing and establishing the five model activities:
- Setting up and maintaining the Network
- Organizing the Showcase of Eastern Manitoba
- Completing and Updating an Internet Site
- Delivering Consulting Services to Participants
- Making an Inventory of Initiatives and Events Associated with Migration and
Rurality.
