Leads: Steven Trainor/Peter Leyser

The Trustees Committee assists the WTI and its participants in pooling and in deploying their resources for collaboration and innovation in the intentional use of sport and physical activity to advance collective public policy interests. It serves to help guide the WTI in answering questions such as:

• What are lessons learned on financing mechanisms and pooling of resources?
• How do we address accountability in a context of innovation?
• How do we support innovation while being accountable?

Vital to the WTI platform, Community Prototypes:

• Explore the intentional use of sport and physical activity to advance public policy objectives.
• Allow the WTI to learn to work together by doing things together. Specifically, to learn how government, NGO’s, Sport and Physical Activity (PA) groups can work together in new ways.
• Develop and share the knowledge and experience on working in a “many-to-many” environment that could be useful to other government departments and voluntary sector organizations wishing to work together on broad or complex public policy objectives.

Current/Past WTI Prototypes

• Brampton- Newcomer Community-Based Athletic Initiative (Presentation)
• Seine River First Nation (Presentation)
• Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health (Presentation)
• We Belong- Canadian Active After School Partnership (Presentation)

3. Developmental Evaluation
Leads:Kathy Hare, Cheryl Gorman, Jan Elliott

Developmental evaluation (DE) is a relatively recent methodology designed specifically for conditions of complexity. Its primary purpose is to support innovation development to guide adaptation to emergent and dynamic realities in complex environments.

The DE team supports other working WTI groups in identifying important questions and paying attention to questions that can support WTI and our intentional innovation. The SiG learning opportunity (under Michael Quinn Patton) provides the DE team and WTI testing ground for our ideas and questions. This team will check in with each of the other working groups.

DE Presentation- October 2011 (Jan Elliott, The Elliott Group)

4. Horizontal Terms and Conditions (HT&C)
Lead:Mathieu Larose

The HT&C constellation working group mandate is to develop and implement an innovative and practical mechanism to flow and manage investments to and from the Working Together Initiative platform. It is expected that this document will outline the authorities and accountability mechanisms needed to allow Federal departments to fund joint collaborations more efficiently while meeting Treasury Board requirements.

HT&C Presentation- October 2011 (Mathieu Larose, First Nations Inuit Health Branch)

The WTI seeks to find new and innovative ways to share its story, find new partners, and continue to share/build on the learnings of working together.