Speakers Kimberley Murphy (Manager of Procurement Engagement for Nova Scotia Government) and Chaiti Seth (Instructor with the Environmental & Sustainability Studies, Acadia University) will uncover the benefits of local procurement for our local economies, community relationships, and environment.
Local procurement is when public institutions (eg. hospitals, schools) prioritize local suppliers when procuring goods and services. If these large anchor institutions commit just a small percentage of their budgets to local procurement there are significant benefits for our local economies and community relationships
Kimberley Murphy – Manager of Procurement Engagement for Nova Scotia Government:
Kimberley has worked in the Procurement division for the past 19 years. In her current role as Manager of Procurement Engagement, she is responsible for the implementation of a Sustainable Procurement Strategy for the province as well as developing and delivering information on the policies and processes of public procurement for internal and external groups. Included in that group is the supplier community where Kimberley has focused much of her efforts to engage suppliers in the public procurement process. Kimberley is currently serving her 3rd term as president of the Canadian Public Procurement Council.
Chaiti Seth – Instructor with the Environmental & Sustainability Studies, Acadia University
Chaiti is a mother, farmer, researcher, and experiential educator from India currently living in Mi’kma’ki. She is an Instructor with the Environmental & Sustainability Studies program at Acadia University and learns, writes, and teaches about sustainability, food systems, transformative learning, and the inner work and community practice of healing for equity and social change. She currently lives with her partner and children on a small farm on south mountain above Sikunme’katik (the Gaspereau river)
Webinar context:
The world is changing at an unprecedented pace, leaving many individuals and communities with a sense of uncertainty, and in many cases, worry. How do we respond to this rapidly changing world? How do we strengthen our local agency and resilience, socially, economically, and ecologically? With newly imposed tariffs that threaten to worsen the financial realities within our communities, we want to shine a light on thriving examples of re-localization in our region!
Re-localization is a concept and movement with an aim to become more self-reliant in our production and consumption (while reducing reliance on distant supply chains) in everything from energy, to food, to climate solutions, and beyond.
This series is held on the last Thursday of each month from 12-1pm Atlantic and will explore examples of re-localization across Atlantic Canada.
Graphic Summary
Check out the key-takeaways for the webinar below produced as part of the Community of Practice: Community Wealth Building and Re-localization, a initiative of the Local Prosperity Network. Join us for a conversation about the webinar the following Thursday at the same time.
