Fédération des francophones de la Colombie-Britannique

Annual Report 2002-2003

> AT the Federal Level

Canada-Community Agreement

Canada-Community Agreement Milestones

April 2002

» Polls close for elections to positions on the
province’s Consultative Committee, ballots are
counted and the results announced.

June 2002

» The community ratifies the election results
at the FFCB Annual General Meeting.

September 2002

» Provincial Consultative Committee meets
on September 28 and 29, 2002: orientation
for new members, discussion around processes
for evaluating the Agreement; analysis of
Agreement’s mechanisms and how the
committee is involved in evaluating the
community’s Global Development Plan.

October 2002

» Review and distribution to Francophone
organizations of a questionnaire on develop-
ment priorities for 2002-2003.

November 2002

» Adoption of development priorities for
2003-2004 by the community.

» Canadian Heritage offers training workshop
on results-based management to agencies.

» Groups are asked to submit requests for
core and project funding for 2003-2004.
December 13 is set as deadline for 2003-2004
funding applications.

» The evaluation framework is presented to
the Presidents’ Council.

January 2003

» Nominations are open for eight positions
on the Provincial Consultative Committee for
2003-2004.

|/
» Meeting of members of the Provincial
Consultative Committee: establishment of

process and procedures for evaluating the
Agreement.

February 2003

» The community sector of the management
committee evaluates funding applications
from groups.

March 2003

» Both parts of the management committee
meet on March 3 to finalize funding recommen-
dations for the Minister.

» Funding recommendations are sent to the
Minister of Canadian Heritage.

> Consultations begin on updating the
2004-2009 Global Development Plan.

Members of the Provincial Consultative

Committee in June 2002

» Pierre Senay, Chair, and representing the economic

development sector

» Claude Provencher, President of the FFCB

des francophones de la Colombie-Britannique

Mireille Roy, member at large

Louis Gagné, representing Northern British Columbia
Vacant, representing Southern British Columbia
Robert Godel, representing Vancouver Island

Anne-Marie Guminski, representing Greater Vancouver

Louis-Philippe Fortier, representing seniors

Chantal Lefebvre, representing women’s interests

Chantal Vadnais, representing the educational sector

Challenges and priorities
for 2003-2004

On October 30, 2001, members of the Provincial Consultative

Committee met to revise the community development priorities
questionnaire for 2003-2004. Once it was revised, the questionnaire
was mailed out to 43 Francophone organizations and 19 completed
forms were returned. The results were presented at the Presidents’
Council in November. The Francophone organizations in attendance

unanimously adopted the priorities as defined via the consultative
process. As a result, the development priorities for the Francophone

community for 2003-2004 are:

“. Institutionalization

© Training and management

Denise Gagnon-Branter, representing the cultural sector

>
>
>
>
>
» Tanya Poynting, representing youth
>
>
>
>
>

Yseult Friolet, Secretary

of human resources

= Networking and visibility

- Partnerships and consolidation