Dialogue

RDÉE Canada believes that sustaining an ongoing dialogue among its members is a vital component of the network’s success. In particular through the National Advisory Tables (NAT), RDÉE Canada promotes learning and co‑operation among the member organizations. The network’s six NAT (Representatives and Managers, Communications, Tourism, Rural Development, Youth Employability and Entrepreneurship, and Knowledge-based Economy) generally meet two or three times per year.

The main goal of the NAT meetings is to examine the issues common to all of the network’s organizations, to share best practices and to enable employees to participate in professional development activities. Over the last year, and since the creation of the NAT in 2001, RDÉE Canada has seen first-hand the synergy among participants and the positive results that these meetings bring to the network as a whole.

The NAT meetings also enable development officers for Tourism, Rural Development, Youth Employability and Entrepreneurship, and Knowledge-based Economy to hold discussions with Francophone leaders and entrepreneurs within the framework of organized visits and to discover economic development and employability initiatives and projects being implemented in various communities across the nation.