Grants and Contributions

This 29-month project supports a feminist response to and recovery from the current impact of COVID-19 through systemic change. To achieve this, the Regroupement des groupes de femmes de la Capitale-Nationale plans to mobilize 40 groups among member women’s groups, feminist communities and allied mixed groups in a people’s education tour of the Capitale-Nationale Region (Portneuf – Québec – Charlevoix) to equip participants with the tools they need to identify and better understand intersecting issues related to the environment, violence and poverty that affect them. The project aims to expand the group’s scope of action by developing collaborative initiatives with allied groups and underrepresented women’s groups. It also aims to strengthen inclusive practices within the region’s women’s movement by adopting targeted methods for including the voices of marginalized women. The outcomes of the people’s education tour will be shared at a conference designed to prioritize converging issues and identify priorities for action from a feminist, green, inclusive and equitable perspective. The project will address the concerns identified by the region’s women’s movement and its allies through political representation, publications and briefs, and attendance at public hearings.

At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed toward addressing systemic barriers by advancing inclusive policies and practices, and by expanding networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change, and by fostering a more effective, equitable division of resources in support of women’s equality.

This 20-month project will support the capacity of violence against women shelters and transition houses to deliver essential programs and services in response to the ongoing health and safety crisis posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. It will enhance the ability of shelters and transition houses to adapt and re-design essential programs and services as necessary while responding to specific capacity and community needs. It will also enable shelters and transition houses to maintain operations both during and after the pandemic and continue to serve the needs of women, girls, LGBTQ2, and gender non-binary people experiencing violence to advance gender equality in Canada. Women’s Shelters Canada (WSC) will engage and consult with key stakeholders in order to implement a fair, transparent, and efficient process to distribute funding to shelters and transition houses across Canada, outside of Quebec. This funding aims to address the specific needs of shelters and transition houses and ensure they are better equipped to respond to local and emerging contexts, both during and after the pandemic. WSC will coordinate the gathering and consolidation of information from funding Recipients to determine how and to what extent the funding has impacted their organizational capacity to respond to and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Other activities may be undertaken, as needed, including the communication of results, dissemination of knowledge, and sharing of best practices among shelters and transition houses across Canada.

This 60-month project will review, test and enhance assessment and intervention tools available to service providers working with older women (55+) who experience, or are at risk of experiencing, gender-based violence. Particular attention will be paid to older women from underserved groups and to the additional barriers they encounter. Through collaboration with a wide array of partner organizations, a series of promising practices will be developed and tested to respond to the unique needs of older survivors.

This project will support the capacity of violence against women shelters and transition houses to deliver essential programs and services in response to the ongoing health and safety crisis posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. It will enhance the ability of shelters and transition houses to adapt and re-design essential programs and services as necessary while responding to specific capacity and community needs. It will also enable shelters and transition houses to maintain operations both during and after the pandemic and continue to serve the needs of women, girls, LGBTQ2, and gender non-binary people experiencing violence to advance gender equality in Canada. Women’s Shelters Canada (WSC) will engage and consult with key stakeholders in order to implement a fair, transparent, and efficient process to distribute funding to shelters and transition houses across Canada, outside of Quebec. This funding aims to address the specific needs of shelters and transition houses and ensure they are better equipped to respond to local and emerging contexts, both during and after the pandemic. WSC will coordinate the gathering and consolidation of information from funding Recipients to determine how and to what extent the funding has impacted their organizational capacity to respond to and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Other activities may be undertaken, as needed, including the communication of results, dissemination of knowledge, and sharing of best practices among shelters and transition houses across Canada.

This supplemental funding will be used to expand the reach of the project to support ultimate recipients in meeting unmet demands while continuing to respond to local and emerging contexts.

This project will support the capacity of sexual assault centres (SACs) and other gender-based violence (GBV) service organizations to deliver essential programs and services in response to the ongoing health and safety crisis posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. It will enhance the ability of SACs and GBV service organizations to adapt and re-design essential programs and services as necessary while responding to specific capacity and community needs. It will also enable SACs and GBV service organizations to maintain operations both during and after the pandemic and continue to serve the needs of women, girls, LGBTQ22SLGBTQQIA+, and gender non-binary people experiencing violence to advance gender equality in Canada. Canadian Women’s Foundation (CWF) will engage and consult with key stakeholders in order to implement a fair, transparent, and efficient process to distribute funding to SACs and GBV service organizations across Canada, outside of Quebec.

This funding aims to address the specific needs of SACs and GBV service organizations and ensure they are better equipped to respond to local and emerging contexts, both during and after the pandemic. CWF will coordinate the gathering and consolidation of information from funding Recipients to determine how and to what extent the funding has impacted their organizational capacity to respond to and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Other activities may be undertaken, as needed, including the communication of results, dissemination of knowledge, and sharing of best practices among SACs and GBV service organizations across Canada.

This supplemental funding will be used to expand the reach of the project to support ultimate recipients in meeting unmet demands while continuing to respond to local and emerging contexts.

This 20-month project will support the capacity of sexual assault centres (SACs) and other gender-based violence (GBV) service organizations to deliver essential programs and services in response to the ongoing health and safety crisis posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. It will enhance the ability of SACs and GBV service organizations to adapt and re-design essential programs and services as necessary while responding to specific capacity and community needs. It will also enable SACs and GBV service organizations to maintain operations both during and after the pandemic and continue to serve the needs of women, girls, LGBTQ22SLGBTQQIA+, and gender non-binary people experiencing violence to advance gender equality in Canada. Canadian Women’s Foundation (CWF) will engage and consult with key stakeholders in order to implement a fair, transparent, and efficient process to distribute funding to SACs and GBV service organizations across Canada, outside of Quebec. This funding aims to address the specific needs of SACs and GBV service organizations and ensure they are better equipped to respond to local and emerging contexts, both during and after the pandemic.
CWF will coordinate the gathering and consolidation of information from funding Recipients to determine how and to what extent the funding has impacted their organizational capacity to respond to and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Other activities may be undertaken, as needed, including the communication of results, dissemination of knowledge, and sharing of best practices among SACs and GBV service organizations across Canada.

As part of this 34-month project, Le Phare des AffranchiEs will develop and implement an integrated system of key stakeholders on sex and labour trafficking for the Laurentian region as well as a training of trainers on the issue of labour trafficking, which will advance knowledge and improve support to empower survivors of human trafficking and enhance the current continuum of services. This goal will be achieved by mobilizing survivors of human trafficking as well as various partners from the private, community and institutional sectors (e.g. police and youth protection). This partnership approach will lead to the development of training content for trainers on labour trafficking and help increase the knowledge of key stakeholders on the issue of trafficking as a whole. The project will be sustained through the coordination of regional tables on trafficking issues that will ensure the relationships between the participating organizations and will promote the institutionalization of the contents developed, both in terms of their effective appropriation in the organizations and with the key people involved. By the end of the project, the organization will have developed and implemented promising prevention and intervention practices to increase knowledge about sex and labour trafficking, and empower at-risk populations and survivors, with a view to make systemic changes in the Laurentian region and beyond, in order to fill the gaps in prevention or support offered to the targeted populations. The project will include an external evaluation.

As part of this 45-month project, the Centre d’expertise Marie-Vincent will develop and implement a trafficking and sexual exploitation prevention project that will help increase knowledge and improve support to promote the empowerment of at-risk youth, particularly youth under the care of the health and social services network and youth served by community-based youth organizations in three target regions of Quebec.

This goal will be achieved through a needs analysis and a literature review, which will help develop prevention tools based on the literature and tailored to the needs of youth at risk of trafficking and sexual exploitation; these tools will be developed in collaboration with a monitoring committee made up of key partners. The tools, along with training to accompany them, will help strengthen the capacity of people in institutional and community settings working with youth who are at risk of or survivors of trafficking. The tools and training will also help identify a promising practice that effectively promotes prevention among the target population. The project will include an external assessment to be conducted by the Marie-Vincent Interuniversity Research Chair in Child Sexual Abuse.

The goal of this external assessment will be to evaluate the promising practice developed, tested, and implemented during the project. The evaluator will be from outside the organization and have the experience and expertise needed to conduct the assessment.

The supplementary funding will be used to scale the project and adapt the tools and training modules to meet secondary schools’ needs related to preventing youth trafficking and sexual exploitation. Interviews will be conducted with school staff and partner organizations to determine specific areas where the promising practice can be adapted into universal teaching strategies, as opposed to more direct strategies used with at-risk youth. Training specifically designed for preventing human trafficking and sexual exploitation in secondary schools will be offered online and in person to frontline employees at secondary schools in two distinct administrative regions of Quebec.

This 31-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the impacts of COVID-19 through systemic change. Global Compact Network Canada (GCNC) will achieve this by designing and implementing policies and practices to increase women’s labour market participation and opportunities while addressing discriminatory legislation, policies, and/or practices that prevent women and/or girls from fully participating in the social, political, and economic life in Canada.

At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers to advancing gender equality through the advancement of inclusive policies and practices, increased networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change, and addressing persistent harmful gender norms and attitudes to advance women’s equality in Canada.

This project will amplify the voices of women, diverse individuals, and underrepresented groups, while creating diverse and inclusive workspaces that are more adaptive and responsive during periods of global crisis. By employing a GBA+ framework to guide the project, GCNC will engage with private sector partners to develop and test gender responsive solutions to systemic barriers to gender equality in the Canadian private sector. Activities will include identifying systemic barriers and challenges facing women, diverse individuals and underrepresented groups in the Canadian private sector, developing case studies highlighting best practices among private sector companies, testing a gender equality pilot program among private sector companies, developing and launching a gender equality toolkit for private sector companies, and evaluating impact of the project on contributing to systemic change in the private sector.

This 21-month project will maximize the potential, outreach and impact of women's groups by strengthening their capacities and skills to use information and communication technologies (ICT). The measures that will be undertaken to achieve this are the design and the implemention of an online training course and tools on ICT, holding a round table to demystify ICT issues and putting a feminist perspective on them, and designing and conducting awareness workshops.