OCAP Best Practices Guide:
This guide gives some recommendations as to how collecting information about and distributing the results from risk and resilience assessment inputs and results. What does OCAP mean?
OCAP is an acronym for:
Ownership: understanding that First Nations have ownership of their information, cultural knowledge, and data the same as an individual owns their own personal data.
Control: understanding that First Nations have control over how their information is collected, stored, used, and shared
Access: understanding that First Nations has access to their data at their convenience for key decision making, planning, teaching, and learning
Possession: understanding that First Nations choose where, when, and how their data is stored/managed and who can access it
How would you share an assessment?
OCAP® respects that rights of First Nations communities to own, control, access, and possess information about their peoples is fundamentally tied to self-determination and to the preservation and development of their culture.
a. Familiarize with OCAP before beginning engagement.
Ensure staff have taken the OCAP training course provided by First Nations Information Governance Council. This ensures those conducting the survey are familiar with how to identify OCAP compliant material
b. Data as defined by FNIGC in relation to OCAP;
Data in this context encompasses data from First Nations, including languages, cultures, knowledge, stories, songs, and ceremonies, data about First Nations such as demographics, housing, health, economies, labor, education, and data on or about First Nations lands and resources, which includes waters, medicines, and animals.
In relation to the Disaster risk and resilience assessments. The definition of data from the FNIGC website (2.a.) helps us to understand how to share risk assessments and results while respecting First Nations
data sovereignty. This information belongs to the various first nations and our responsibility is to ensure that valid communication is provided for those when presented with a survey as to what information will or won’t be provided when compiling results.
c. Providing regionalized or non-private information related outcomes versus specifically stating who stated what hazard as risk.
“Please be assured that the survey data will remain the exclusive property of the First Nations community you are representing, in alignment with the OCAP principles. While the final report will emphasize regional trends rather than focusing on individual communities, each community will have access to the data collected, ensuring that data ownership and control remain with the communities themselves.”
d. This example allows us to better understand a scenario where the purpose of the survey is to collect information relating to risk, this is outlined clearly and participants understand that they have agreed to sharing some of the information with EMCR in this example, however results being regionalized ensures that specific individuals and their feedback isn’t provided in a detailed context.
OCAP® is a registered trademark of the First Nations Information Governance Centre (FNIGC). Please visit https://fnigc.ca/ocap-training/ to learn more.
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