Grants and Contributions

This 60-month project will increase the reporting options for victims of sexual assault, on post-secondary campuses, as well as in communities, through the use of an online reporting tool.
The project will conduct a Manitoba-wide test of the effectiveness, safety and user-friendliness of an online reporting tool for survivors of sexual assault. The project will provide information on reporting options; help provide aggregate data about sexual assault occurring in post-secondary settings; help facilitate identification of repeat offenders; increase number of reports from survivors; and help shorten time before incidents of sexual assault are reported.

This 48-month project will test and adapt the evidence-informed program “Beyond Violence” to the lived experience of young women (under the age of 30) and First Nations women who are incarcerated and have experienced polyvictimization.

The project will test up to three different solutions of providing safe homes in three smaller, remote communities in the Northwest Territories that currently do not have a safe space to go for women who are experiencing violence.

The supplemental funds and extension will be used to collect data for the evaluation and explore avenues to sustain the sites after the end of the project.

The Project I3 – WG2S will advance indigenous gender equality for women and girls across social and economic conditions by supporting the creation of a succession of transformative innovation and catalyzing large scale system changes to improve lives in Indigenous communities across Canada, allowing Indigenous innovators from the I3-WG2S project to achieve their fullest potential and share in Canada’s prosperity. Indigenous gender equality refers to the United Nations Briefing Note No. 1 on Gender and Indigenous Peoples that recognizes that there are even further gender influenced gaps for Indigenous peoples.

The project will fund innovative projects to assist Indigenous women in Canada to overcome the barriers they are facing in their communities. The I3-WG2S will respond to the technical and financial needs, as well as other barriers faced by Indigenous women and girls, including 2SLGBTTQQIA people, and in particular innovators and entrepreneurs, through three tiers of support/components. The Capacity Building Component and the Seed Component, using WAGE’s contribution of up to $8,744,582 in matched funding toward 50% of the total project cost; and the Transition-to-Scale Component, using Grand Challenges Canada’s matched funding of up to $8,744,582 toward the total project cost.

Grand Challenges Canada will ensure that WAGE’s contribution of up to $8,744,582 to the Project will focus specifically on the advancement of Indigenous gender equality for women and girls across social and economic conditions. Grand Challenges Canada may use its contribution of up to $8,744,582 toward the cost of supporting the advancement of gender equality for women and girls, including 2SLGBTTQQIA people throughout its cycle, to identify, propose, assess and identify the solutions to the most pressing gaps and challenges, and to bring the opportunity to solve those grand challenges in their communities.

This 66-month project will test and evaluate the promising practice of shaping Métis specific services for victims of gender-based violence by engaging and encouraging Métis victims to shape the services they need.

The project will test and enhance a model of support designed to address various complex needs of women who want to leave the sex industry.

This 24-month project will harmonize approaches to addressing and preventing Gender Based Violence (GBV) at post secondary institutions (PSIs) across the country. Growing from the promising practices, suggested tools, protocols and programming articulated in the Framework Report, this project’s activities in year 1 seek to develop key protocols, tools and programming that will be tested and refined in year 2. In addition, Possibility Seeds Consulting will develop key materials including an outline of priorities at the end of this project. All tools, protocols and programming will be developed to ensure that PSIs, from small to large, from urban to rural, will be able to implement the Framework in ways that speak to the unique needs of each campus community. The Communities of Practice will be key in supporting the implementation of the Framework moving forward.

This 18-month project will increase awareness and honour the lives and legacies of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and LGBTQ2 individuals. The project will deliver an on-the-land workshop in the communities of Puvirnituq and Inukjuak, as well as the unveiling of a sculpture as a commemorative event.

This 6-month project will honour the lives and legacies of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and LGBTQ2S individuals and increase awareness about missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls and LGBTQ2S individuals. Project activities will include: the creation and installation of a legacy statue or cenotaph, the coordination of commemorative initiatives including a one day traditional powwow, and a memorial round dance.