Grants and Contributions

It fosters the next generation of security and defence scholars in the Canadian academic community and encouraging a strong Canadian knowledge base in contemporary defence and security issues.

The Canada Graduate Scholarships-Doctoral (CGS D) Program provides financial support to outstanding eligible students pursuing doctoral studies in a Canadian university. These prestigious scholarships aim to develop research skills and assist in the training of highly qualified personnel by supporting students who demonstrate a high standard of scholarly achievement in undergraduate and graduate studies.

The Canada Graduate Scholarships-Doctoral (CGS D) Program provides financial support to outstanding eligible students pursuing doctoral studies in a Canadian university. These prestigious scholarships aim to develop research skills and assist in the training of highly qualified personnel by supporting students who demonstrate a high standard of scholarly achievement in undergraduate and graduate studies.

The Canada Graduate Scholarships-Doctoral (CGS D) Program provides financial support to outstanding eligible students pursuing doctoral studies in a Canadian university. These prestigious scholarships aim to develop research skills and assist in the training of highly qualified personnel by supporting students who demonstrate a high standard of scholarly achievement in undergraduate and graduate studies.

The Canada Graduate Scholarships-Doctoral (CGS D) Program provides financial support to outstanding eligible students pursuing doctoral studies in a Canadian university. These prestigious scholarships aim to develop research skills and assist in the training of highly qualified personnel by supporting students who demonstrate a high standard of scholarly achievement in undergraduate and graduate studies.

Through this 31-month project, Equality Insights Lab will conduct research, in collaboration with Ottawa Muslim Community Services and Queen’s University, to improve gender-based violence (GBV) services for at-risk groups in Ottawa’s Muslim Community with a focus on immigrant, newcomer and refugee women. This mixed methods research will assess GBV risks, protective factors, and access to and utilization of GBV services and their intersection with Islamophobic attitudes and behaviors. To do so, the project will: develop a research protocol and identify community stakeholders; hold a series of workshops and discussions with the Muslim community to refine the research methods, and collect disaggregated data on GBV, including intimate partner violence and patterns of support-seeking. The data will be validated through open dialogue sessions with the community and a series of recommendations will be co-created to increase accessibility, cultural sensitivity, and utilization of services and to improve coordination and cross-sectoral collaboration with community stakeholders. Recommendations will also inform GBV prevention and bystander interventions. Dissemination activities will be conducted with the community and key stakeholders to share findings and recommendations. Results will also be published in a scientific journal.

Through this 31-month project, the National Association of Women and the Law (NAWL) will develop and put in place a promising practice for intersectional feminist legal reform: a collaborative GBV-responsive law reform model, which will strengthen the GBV sector. It will address the legal needs of divorced and divorcing victims and survivors of GBV, and work to specifically address the needs of Indigenous, Black and racialized women, immigrant, refugee and newcomer women, women with disabilities, members of the 2SLGBTQI+ community, and women in northern communities, which may not have been sufficiently addressed by the recent amendments to the Divorce Act. To do so, the project will include a preliminary needs assessment involving consultations with legal experts and stakeholders, a review of existing data and research on the current state of the family justice system’s intersections with GBV, consultations with legal experts, stakeholders, and relevant organizations, and conducting a law reform methodology case study(ies). NAWL will also develop a law reform backgrounder, which will be used to increase partners’, legal experts’ and stakeholders’ understanding of the law reform process and ability to advocate for women’s rights within the family justice system. Through consultations with stakeholders in 4 of the 5 WAGE regions and adopting an approach of collaborative GBV-responsive feminist law reform, NAWL will develop a law reform position paper and a plan to advocate for GBV-responsive family law related to the Divorce Act, which will include an awareness-raising campaign, as well as the creation of materials to raise awareness among lawyers and the general public. An external evaluator will measure and assess the impact of the promising practice. NAWL will be working collaboratively throughout the project with a number of GBV-sector organizations who will be consulted and provide feedback on key project processes and outputs. The law reform position paper and the external evaluation will be shared with partners, supporters, and/or decision-makers. NAWL will also develop, publish, and share recommendations for legislative amendments to the Divorce Act, in the form of a position paper, memorandum or brief, to share information on the promising practice with others so that they may replicate it or expand upon it.

Through this 30- month project, Elmwood Community Resource Centre and Area Association Inc. will scale the “Still I Rise” gender-based violence program (based on tree of life model) to strengthen the GBV sector. It will scale to better meet the needs of South Asian, Black and Arab women in Manitoba. It will address the root causes of GBV in a culturally sensitive way for Black, South Asian and Arab individuals who often are at high risk for GBV. To do so, the project will include working with Manitoba Association of Women’s Shelters (MAWS) to engage with at-risk and underserved populations and developing measurement tools and indicators grounded in culturally relevant practices. The organization will work to share the information from scaling this promising practice widely with partners and others so that they may replicate it or expand upon it.

This 31-month project, managed by a young Inuit woman, VIDEA will scale Shared Wisdom promising practice to strengthen the GBV sector. The project will form a group of 6 youth leaders including Inuit youth in Iqaluit, NU and Nunatsiavut, NL, Métis youth in Fort Vermilion, AB, First Nations youth in Lytton and Lil’wat, BC and Yellowknife, NWT.

It will address the need for youth-led, community-immersed solutions and systemic interventions to address the crisis of GBV against Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQ+ people. Community Wisdom will include Indigenous youth-led, culturally-relevant, land-based community engagement on GBV, Indigenous-centered wellness and healing for men and boys, comprehensive community action plans for systemic intervention, strong partnerships with and between youth and communities. Leading to increased capacity of Indigenous youth of all genders to address GBV, enhanced capacity of men and boys to champion GBV-free families and communities, increased capacity of Indigenous communities to influence systemic change on GBV, and increased stakeholder engagement in creating systems and policies that address GBV against Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQ+ people.

VIDEA will create innovative resources grounded in methodologies used in community engagement, with promotion of these resources to communities, organizations, institutions, and wide promotion online.

Through this 31-month project, the Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres (OCRCC) will scale a BIPOC community of practice model and implement anti-racist reflexive practices within sexual violence services to strengthen the GBV sector. It will address the need for 1) increased support and decreased isolation for BIPOC staff in Ontario sexual assault centres, 2) increased support for racialized survivors of sexual violence, and 3) increased opportunities for anti-racist organizational and systems change.

To do so, the project will 1) scale a BIPOC counsellor community of practice model to BIPOC outreach, education, and management roles in sexual assault centres in Ontario; 2) create a peer-support meeting model; 3) deploy an existing decolonizing toolkit with allies to enhance organization change; and 4) undertake advocacy work to address the interaction of race and gender oppression on gender-based violence. An evaluator will measure and assess the impact of the promising practice.

OCRCC will publish the toolkit and related calls to action on the OCRCC webpage; present the promising practice and peer-support meeting model; disseminate advocacy work addressing interaction of race and gender oppression in internal and external networks; and present the evaluation summary to OCRCC leaders, so to share information on the promising practice with others so that they may replicate it or expand upon it.