Grants and Contributions

It also aims to support gender equality and on-site learning in partnerships with Indigenous organizations in Canada, such as VIDEA and Indigenous Clean Energy.

Project activities include: (1) training existing and potential duty bearers on feminist leadership; (2) expanding capacities and connections between existing and potential women leaders; (3) conducting awareness and learning campaigns in support of women’s leadership with community stakeholders; (4) conducting intergenerational dialogues with political parties and leaders on women’s leadership potential; (5) facilitating workshops with local governments on power analysis, critical self-reflection and feminist leadership; (6) training women leaders, community based organizations, women’s rights organizations and networks on inclusive citizen-led accountability practices and advocacy; (7) training local media on investigative methods for promoting accountability; and (8) facilitating dialogues among minority women leaders, women’s rights organizations, civil society organizations, networks, and local government institutions.

The Eliminating Cervical Cancer in Canada funding opportunity is expected to:

• Maintain and/or strengthen a high quality research program for implementation science, clinical, health services, and population health research to achieve better clinical, economic, and population health outcomes related to the elimination of cervical cancer for the benefit of Canadians;
• Examine the effectiveness of HPV vaccine schedules, including 1 dose schedules;
• Evaluate the requirement for booster doses for the HPV vaccine for males and females;
• Improve understanding of, access to, and uptake of cervical cancer screening among underserved populations with appropriate consideration of income, cultural background, geographic location, education, gender, and other intersecting factors;
• Improve understanding of, access to, and uptake of HPV vaccination among the general population, including consideration of the role of parents and guardians, as well as appropriate consideration of how income, cultural background, geographic location, education, gender, and other intersecting factors may be contributing to vaccine hesitancy;
• Assess the feasibility, suitability and implementation of HPV self-collection for underscreened populations with appropriate consideration of how income, cultural background, geographic location, education, gender, and other intersecting factors may affect effective implementation; and
• Establish a network of collaborative centres to ensure that good practices and learnings from the grant recipients are translated nationally to maximize the impact and outcomes of the research program across jurisdictions for the benefit of Canadians.

To achieve this, Action travail des femmes du Québec inc. plans to oppose the phenomena whereby female immigrant workers are made vulnerable and disqualified, with a special focus on economic recovery policy, first by conducting research on government economic recovery policies and strategies as they relate to the recognition of prior learning and employability programs and services, and then by developing a forum for claims and engagement strategies to lead collective action and to submit these demands to the public authorities concerned.

At the end of the project, the organization will have changed norms and attitudes engaging men and women to prevent gender-based violence for South Asian women and supported positive distribution of authority and voices. The findings, learnings, and successes of the project will be shared at a conference to be organized at the end of the project.

Peers with intersecting lived experiences will inform and engage throughout the course of the project. Learnings will be shared through knowledge translation activities with wider networks.

Partners include MCG CAREERS INC., MacEwan University, The Learning Centre Literacy Association, NSTEP, Edmonton Heritage Council, Association Niger Canada Sahel, and Rehoboth Alliance.

The establishment of a support network and the development of tailored learning programs, tools and resources will equip them to address such obstacles.

This will be achieved by 1) establishing project governance, 2) conducting a comprehensive environmental and resource scan, 3) developing an interactive e-learning platform, 4) engaging rurally located queer and gender diverse people in care navigation, 5) conducting data collection, monitoring, and evaluation of tools, and 6) engaging community in ongoing education and knowledge-sharing.

Build a Dream will offer career development opportunities by connecting industry collaborators, students, and job seekers through virtual conferences, career discovery exhibitions, workshops, and hands-on learning programs. Also, the organization will develop a mentoring program and host a leadership symposium highlighting initiatives to improve women's economic pathways across these fields.