Grants and Contributions

To take what the MODG learned from the Risk Assessment Exercises and the Flood Mapping and turn that into a plan moving forward to better position the MODG for accurate, forward thinking, and informed decision making to mitigate challenges in the near and distant future

This 3-month project will develop a framework and a consultation toolkit to support effective and coordinated roundtable sessions to ensure input received during the community engagement contributes effectively to learning more about the specific GBV needs of diverse communities using an intersectional lens.

Afghan Women's Organization Refugee and Immigrant Services (AWO) will achieve this by : engaging in significant outreach (advisory committee, peer leaders, outreach strategy); research (literature review, data collection via mixed participatory methods); community interventions through pilot small-scale social change prototypes (tested and adjusted as needed); and ensuring the sustainability of the results through the development and dissemination of a Dialogue Box/Toolkit Training, final report, and project learnings.

At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by supporting positive distribution of authority, voices, and decision-making power, and by addressing persistent harmful gender norms and attitudes to support women’s equality.

Supplemental funds released in March 2023 will be used to develop a volunteer hiring and onboarding program, create a manual for office management procedures, systems and workflows, and develop a learning agenda around the organization's engagement with various audiences.

Supplemental funds will be used for building digital learning infrastructure and developing business modelling.

The 2023 supplemental funding will be used to review, revise, and update the sustainable strategic plan and the fundraising strategy based on lessons learned and changes made during the COVID 19 Pandemic.

To do so, the project will support participants to change behaviour, identify barriers, create and/or learn about boundaries, and examine belief systems about domestic violence.

Specifically, the project will address the systemic barriers experienced by Francophone women in the community-based sector by conducting a series of systemic change learning circles with partner organizations, guiding them through a gender-based organizational audit, supporting them in integrating GBA+ strategies into their internal operations, and establishing a long-term follow-up plan to ensure the sustainability of the changes initiated.

It will scale to a new community addressing the need for initiatives that support boys through safe spaces and social-emotional learning (SEL). To do so, it will implement a comprehensive, evidence-based curriculum, train and support local facilitators, and establish a sustainable program infrastructure with local leadership, partnerships, evaluation systems, and risk management.

To do so, the project will include a needs assessment, remote and in person capacity building opportunities for learning and knowledge sharing, mentoring and peer support to develop a community of practice and an evaluation to share information on the promising practice with others so that they may replicate it or expand upon it.