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NIVA is one of Statistics Canada’s partner firms chosen to support the agency’s remarkable commitment to helping Canadians understand important and often complex information derived from the data they collect. We work closely with their communications team to produce infographics and other communications products that reflect information design, data visualization, and data storytelling principles.

For infographics, Statistics Canada’s primary objectives are to quickly communicate key messages, simplify the presentation of large amounts of data, highlight patterns and relationships in the data, and to enable the monitoring of changes over time.

Three examples below (click here to download)

Canada’s Population July 2020

Infrastructure-Related Jobs in Canada

Intergenerational Income Mobility

We are honoured to have been chosen to provide communication support services for WWF-Canada, the country’s largest international conservation organization.

Our most recent project was supporting the release of their Living Planet Report Canada 2020 (LPRC2020). This is their flagship report that offers a window into the nation’s ecological health and provides solutions for protecting and conserving wildlife while mitigating climate change.

Our team was tasked with extracting and synthesizing core elements of the main report to develop this 4-page fact sheet. The primary objective here was to engage and inform a broad audience with a clear, understandable, high-level summary surrounded by vivid imagery of appropriate species. A high priority was also placed on highlighting the need to integrate both Indigenous and non-Indigenous knowledge systems into responsive conservation initiatives and associated actions.

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To support the release of the State of the Atlantic report itself, NIVA also developed a series of 11 shareable infographics, designed especially for use with Fisheries and Oceans Canada’s social media channels. These were created to raise awareness and outline key messages in an illustrated format to help the public and other non-scientific audiences quickly understand key information about Canada’s changing Atlantic ecosystems.

Some examples:

Click here to view full infographic series

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NIVA recently developed this comprehensive report for the Government of Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO). The Atlantic Ocean is changing, and the important content of this document will help to shed light on what’s happening above and below the surface – clearly informing Canadians about complex issues while helping to guide decision making for related policies and programs.

Our mandate for the project was comprehensive and included plain language writing and editing, design and layout, data visualization, and illustrations. Our team worked collaboratively with DFO’s scientists, science advisors, and communications professionals to ensure a flawless final product that achieved its objective.

The Environmental Protection Branch of Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) hired NIVA to develop a digital communications strategy and plan for their National Air Quality Program. The main purpose of this exercise was to help them better communicate about the state of air quality in Canada, and about the work that the federal government is doing to improve air quality and protect the health of Canadians. This initiative provided the strategic and tactical direction to enable the Department to implement a new model for digital communications, while building a greater capacity to effectively engage, inform, and motivate their target audiences.

NIVA led a number of activities to provide a foundation for the core strategy document including:

• A communications planning workshop was held to obtain insight from air quality stakeholders representing all relevant federal government departments related to challenges, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, key messages, lessons learned, etc.
• An internal environmental scan was conducted to assess communication activities underway within the federal government that have a focus on air quality, and the communications environment in which these activities are performed. An full inventory of air quality-related websites housed by the federal government was also completed.
• An external environmental scan was conducted to review best practices in air quality communication carried out by provincial/territorial governments in Canada and selected international jurisdictions.
• A case study on a successful federal government air quality communication and engagement initiative was developed to gain insight on methods that have proven to be successful in the past, and to inform part of the way forward in developing this communication strategy.
• A search term trend analysis was conducted to gain insight into the types of internet searches that Canadians are conducting in relation to air quality, how these searches are influenced by interest in other related topics or during important air quality related events (e.g., wildfires), and how much of this search traffic is getting directed to associated ECCC web pages.
• A perception analysis was carried out using public information requests received by ECCC related to air quality as well as the results of relevant public opinion research (POR).

Genome Canada is a not-for-profit organization, funded by the Government of Canada. They act as a catalyst for developing and applying genomics and genomic-based technologies in several sectors to create economic and social benefits for Canadians. Senior decision makers and the public required information tools that presented this complex information in a clear and understandable manner. NIVA was brought in to apply plain language and high-impact design to achieve these goals. This included fact sheets that showcase how genomics has been applied to each sector, and the potential opportunities for future impact.

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• Fact Sheet 1 (Agri-Food)
• Fact Sheet 2 (Energy and Mining)
• Fact Sheet 3 (Fisheries and Aquaculture)
• Fact Sheet 4 (Forestry)

NIVA Inc. is now the exclusive service provider responsible for reviewing, editing, and publishing all scientific publications produced by NATO’s Science and Technology Organization (STO). Our responsibilities include: establishing language and stylistic standards, ensuring document content is expressed in a clear manner and free of errors, interacting with document authors to solve content issues, and formatting documents according to templates we have established. We also perform other key publishing activities for NATO-STO including the development of graphic design concepts that help them engage their target audiences.

NAV CANADA produces aeronautical information products used by pilots operating in Canadian airspace. As one of their primary products, they are required to produce an Aeronautical Information Publication (AIP) that is compliant with the standards published by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). This includes critical navigation warnings and information on potential dangers/hazards that pilots need to be aware of.

For the past 12 years, NIVA has been mandated with maintaining this publication for NAV CANADA on a 56-day refresh cycle. This maintenance consists of a combination of editorial work, formatting, quality assurance, and production of files for publication. We also assist them with content development for other important aviation-related documents.

In response to a requirement from UNESCO, the Government of Canada’s Parks Canada agency commissioned NIVA to assist with developing their Action Plan for the Wood Buffalo National Park World Heritage Site. Our primary goal was to enable them to convey this information to a wide audience in a clear, engaging, and easily understandable form. For this project, our services included:

• technical editing of all scientific content to ensure accuracy and consistency
• shaping the content into plain language to appeal to a broad audience
• producing cover and document layout design concepts
• graphic design

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