Grants and Contributions

This 36-month project will strengthen and enlarge FAFIA’s network of feminist rights advocates and womens organizations and equip them with the appropriate tools to incorporate a womens rights framework into their community work and advocacy. This will enable them to effectively articulate and analyze women's rights developed at the international level and remedy systemic gender-based wrongs in their Canadian contexts. Activities include mobilizing women’s organizations through a civil society engagement process, and developing a ‘made in Canada’ strategy for implementing the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) recommendations.

This 16-month project will examine the role of feminism and gender equality in Acadian communities in Atlantic Canada. Through the coordination of a Women’s Summit within the larger World Acadian Congress, participants will be mobilized to address the socio-cultural and socio-economic factors that impede gender equality for women within Acadian, Francophone and official language minority communities. Panels, roundtables and a large scale plenary with various stakeholders will allow discussion around women’s civic, democratic and economic participation in rural, urban and remote communities, and inform recommendations and a framework for a Gender Equality Action Plan for Acadian communities in Atlantic Canada.

The development of a Project Implementation Plan to adapt and test the "Safe & Together" model within the Quebec context, to enhance the safety and wellbeing of youth and their mothers by improving youth protection services response in situations of domestic violence.

The development of a Project Implementation Plan to evaluate promising practices of Trauma Stewardship as a critical component of sexual violence and gender-based violence (GBV) work to improve service delivery for survivors of sexual violence, especially underserved populations such as Indigenous women and women in rural communities.

The development of a Project Implementation Plan to increase the well-being of survivors of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and their families, living in rural communities, through the creation of community-based survivor-centered circle meetings, responding to the need for safety and independence and by adaptation of community-based knowledge and systems-based resources into a local wrap-around response led by survivors.

The development of a Project Implementation Plan to research, develop and test the application of risk assessment methodologies that identify and address the needs of women survivors of gender-based violence in order to increase the ability of service providers to assess risk in a sensitive and responsive manner, which can ultimately save lives.

The development of a Project Implementation Plan to develop and test the provision of trauma-and survivor-informed, feminist, intersectional, and anti-oppressive support services to LGBTQ2 and gender non-conforming survivors of Gender-Based Violence (GBV).

The development of a Project Implementation Plan to adapt and test a multidimensional support model, the “graduation approach", for newly-arrived immigrant women victims of gender-based violence, regardless of their legal status, to improve support services.

This 1-month project will support the creation of enabling policy environments to advance the rights of women and girls through the mobilization of resources during the International Parliamentarians’ Conference on the Implementation of the International Conference on Population and Development (IPCI/ICPD). The Conference is an opportunity to strategize towards the elimination of gender-based violence, discuss opportunities for increased leadership for women, and mentorship for newly elected officials.

The development of a Project Implementation Plan to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of a peer support model for women with disabilities and Deaf women (WWD/DW) who have experienced violence. Subject matter experts will be engaged to ensure a comprehensive model that addresses the complexity and unique needs of underserved communities of women with disabilities, including Indigenous, racialized, LGBTQ, and transgendered, in both rural and urban areas.