NWT Literacy Council - Adult Literacy - Best Practices in Action

The Regional Training Partnership has six main goals:

Goal #1: To coordinate and facilitate quality opportunities (in all Beaufort Delta regional communities) to meet the identified training, education, and employment needs of northerners.
Goal #2: To use and manage information effectively, through a communication strategy and information strategy.
Goal #3: To increase influence and leverage resources.
Goal #4: To work with others to increase access, appeal and participation in education, training and employment.
Goal #5: To increase the partnership’s recognition and visibility.
Goal #6: To increase the partnership’s organizational effectiveness.

The partnership’s purpose is to make it easier for northerners to participate in training, education and employment opportunities and for the partners to more effectively fulfill their mandates.

The committee measures its successes using the following:

Training, education and employment opportunities are created
Resources are well utilized
Participation and completion rates are increased
Cultural values are reflected in all that we do
Unemployment rate is reduced
Increased range of learning opportunities is created (from traditional to conventional)
More training and learning opportunities at the community level
Appropriate and well managed information
Increased resource base/influence for the partners
Barriers are reduced (to education, employment and training opportunities)
The partners are well organized, recognized, and self-sustaining.