Indigenous Rights and Equity-Centred Transformation
Build rights, relationships, and accountability into transformation from the beginning.
ETIQA helps organizations integrate Indigenous rights, distinctions-based governance, cultural safety, anti-racism, and equity into strategy, technology, policy, workforce transformation, and service design.
Rights are not the same as inclusion
Indigenous governance is not simply another form of inclusion. Rights, jurisdiction, distinctions, and data sovereignty call for a stronger framing than conventional diversity and inclusion work.
How ETIQA can help
Indigenous-rights and governance reviews
Assess a policy, product, or initiative against rights and governance considerations.
Distinctions-based engagement strategies
Plan engagement that reflects a distinctions-based approach.
Cultural safety and anti-racism integration
Build cultural safety and Indigenous-specific anti-racism into everyday operations.
Indigenous data-governance considerations
Plan for Indigenous data sovereignty in how data is collected, used, and shared.
Community and rights-holder engagement planning
Identify rights-holders and plan how to engage them.
Equity-impact and accessibility assessments
Use an equity impact assessment to surface barriers early.
Indigenous journey reviews
Review the experience of Indigenous patients, employees, or customers.
Indigenous language-access planning
Plan how people can access services in their languages.
Culturally safe service-design workshops
Work through service design with the right people in the room.
The principle behind this work
Olivia's public work emphasizes that Indigenous rights and governance should shape how digital-health initiatives begin, rather than appearing at the end as a compliance exercise. That idea organizes ETIQA's approach.
Key ideas, in plain language
New to some of these terms? Each one has its own short explainer.
Rights-Holders vs. Stakeholders
Stakeholders have an interest in a decision. Rights-holders have rights that the decision may affect.
Learn more →Distinctions-Based Approach
Recognizing that First Nations, Inuit, and Métis have unique rights, histories, and governance, rather than treating them as one group.
Learn more →Indigenous Cultural Safety
An outcome where Indigenous people feel respected and safe in a service, free of racism and discrimination.
Learn more →Indigenous-Specific Anti-Racism
Actively identifying and removing racism directed at Indigenous people, in individual behaviour and in systems.
Learn more →Indigenous Data Sovereignty
The right of Indigenous Peoples to govern data about their communities, lands, and knowledge.
Learn more →Ready to talk through your work?
Start with a conversation about what you are trying to change.