Grants and Contributions

This 29-month project will implement and evaluate the WiseGuyz program and sexual violence prevention education for boys and men in the Edmonton area to address the root causes of gender-based violence. The Sexual Assault Centre of Edmonton (SACE) will achieve this by working with junior high schools in the Edmonton area to identify needs related to sexual violence prevention; engaging grade nine junior high boys between ages 13-15 in sexual violence prevention education programs; and facilitating sexual violence prevention education more broadly within the community.

At the end of the project, the organization will have adapted and expanded a promising practice that resulted in addressing harmful gender norms and disrupting traditional masculinity scripts that many men and boys inherit via social and cultural influences.

The project will empower women and gender-diverse tenant leaders, maintaining a focus on intersectionality and rural and remote communities, to mobilize tenant rights education, enhance awareness of legal resources, and advocate for stronger tenant protections. Following a needs assessment, culturally appropriate and accessible tenant rights education curriculum will be developed to educate individuals on tenant rights, navigating legal systems, and accessing support services. Local tenant leaders will be trained to support their peers and to build capacity for community advocacy.

This project will build the capacity of sexual assault centres to respond to the immediate health and safety crisis posed by the current COVID-19 pandemic and in doing so to continue their important work to advance gender equality in Canada.

The organization will develop a process to disburse funding to sexual assault centres serving women and children victims of gender-based violence, including domestic violence, with the aim of addressing centre’s specific capacity and emergency preparedness needs. It will then coordinate the gathering, consolidation and analysis of information from ultimate recipient reporting on how funding was used. Other activities may be undertaken, as needed, including the transfer of knowledge on sexual assault centre needs, impacts, and responsive solutions to COVID-19.

The supplemental funding of $20,600,000 will expand the current project to provide additional funding to sexual assault centres (based on the requested needs) and support women’s organizations and other organizations offering significant GBV supports and services to women, outside of Québec, to prepare surge capacity to deal with anticipated influx seeking support as a result of increased gender-based violence during the COVID 19 pandemic, and to support their ability to address, prevent and reduce gender-based violence.

Additional supplemental funding of $7,197,267 was provided to CWF in order to support women’s organizations and other organizations offering significant GBV supports and services to women that were deemed eligible under the application process for funding but were unable to receive funding due to oversubscription and limited funds being available.

This project contributes to protecting the dignity and rights of women and girls in Ethiopia by integrating the provision of sexual reproductive health and rights information, supplies, and services with sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) prevention and response. This includes abortion and post-abortion care. Canada’s funding to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) would increase the availability and accessibility of gender-based violence and family planning services. Also, gender-based violence survivors would receive free legal aid, and UNFPA would be able to continue supporting national justice mechanisms to evaluate laws, ensuring they are aligned with regional and international human rights mechanisms. As well, health facilities would be strengthened through capacity building of health staff, and procurement of medical and non-medical supplies.

Project activities include: (1) developing a gender-based analysis (GBA) plus strategy to outline approaches to and tangibly plan for integrating lessons learned from previous work, ongoing needs assessment, intersectionality, feminist monitoring, evaluation, reporting, and learning; (2) providing gender-based violence survivors with free legal aid; and (3) providing dignity kits that contain menstrual pads, underwear, and sanitary napkins accompanied by key information on GBV, GBV risks, and access to GBV services.

Through this 9-month project, the Labrador Friendship Centre will increase its ability to prevent or address gender-based violence against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQI+ people. This will be achieved through the development and implementation of a 5-year strategic plan that will address and align the organization’s objectives, mission, and purpose with an accurate representation of the needs of the community.

By the end of the project, Labrador Friendship Centre will have increased the centre’s capacity to provide safe, accessible, and appropriate programs, services, and accommodations to Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQI+ people.

This 60-month Project will support the long-term viability of the Victoria Sexual Assault Centre to advance gender equity for women, Trans, Two-Spirit, and Gender-Diverse survivors of sexual assault by building a strong foundation for an innovative, healthy, and stable workplace culture through the development of a staff engagement strategy, strategic plan, succession plans for key roles in the organization, and policies and procedures based on anti-oppressive feminist values. The Project will address the need to mitigate the risk of staff turnover, develop a robust and healthy work culture, and provide a clear vision, strategic direction, and measurable goals for future growth.

Supplemental funding will be used to assess and improve human resources management systems and processes, enhance board recruitment process to ensure equity, diverse representation, and accessibility, and to diversify funding sources (e.g., monthly donor program and donor database)

Through this 26-month project, Diversité 02 will address 2SLGBTQI+ communities’ needs and barriers to equality. The project aims to help fix the severe lack of services specifically for 2SLGBTQI+ people in the Saguenay–Lac-St-Jean region, particularly in the areas of gender identity and sexual orientation. The organization is seeking to help create safe, professional, welcoming environments to support and improve access to healthcare and social services for sexually and gender-diverse people. To achieve this, the organization will determine barriers to accessing healthcare, develop an educational tool for healthcare and social service workers, and implement solutions to improve 2SLGBTQI+ people’s access to care.

This 12-month project is a phase 2 of the project #20115 will strengthen the capacity and networks of Essie’s Place to advance LGBTQ2 equality. This will be achieved by building organizational capacity to deliver mental health supports, and offer safe, affordable support and resources for who people who identify as gender diverse, transgender, and/or having a DSD intersex, to improve their quality of life in the Shuswap region.

At the end of the project, the organization will have strengthened collaboration among organizations to better support LGTOQ2SA+ people in the Shuswap region, advance LGBTQ2 equality with an intersectional approach and will amplify sector capacity at large.

This 51-month will develop and test best practices for using video counselling to increase access to trauma-informed support services for youth, Indigenous, rural, and ethno-cultural women survivors of sexual violence.

Through this 20-month project, Ottawa Rape Crisis Centre will build its capacity to advance gender equality. It will address the need to bolster culturally safe, trauma-informed and anti-oppressive services available to members of historically underserved populations who have experienced sexual and/or gender-based violence in the Ottawa region. Specifically, the project will include (1) conducting a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) audit of ORCC; (2) developing an ORCC-specific DEI toolkit; (3) operationalizing the DEI toolkit recommendations; and (4) monitoring, evaluating and learning from the project implementation.