So where do we go from here? Use your assessment findings, review and reflections notes, and this section's recommendations to provide the foundation of an action plan.  Consider actions that integrate actions in three core areas: 

• Centering Indigenous Communities 

• Funding, support, and leadership.

• Systems Change

Recommendations and Next Steps

1. Adopt Indigenous-led governance structures for all data and public health initiatives that commit to Indigenous oversight and data sovereignty.

2. Integrate decolonization into institutional policies and staff performance frameworks. This includes embedding decolonizing practices into onboarding, evaluation, and metrics.

3. Fund relational work and long-term community partnership as essential infrastructure.

4. Use the tool collaboratively—not as compliance but as a relational accountability process-- and ensure it is followed by an action-planning process.

5. Recognize colonialism as a determinant of health and a root cause of inequity and center land, language, and ancestral knowledge in all public health strategies.