Grants and Contributions

This 31-month project will research, develop, and disseminate an evidence-based gender equity playbook and online platform to address the root causes of gender-based violence (GBV) and support survivors in the new post-COVID reality who are high-need, high-risk, or from harder-to-reach communities. The Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic will achieve this by: conducting research with GBV-service organizations providing high-need case management supports in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), as well as trauma-informed research with survivors accessing high-need case management services; building a coalition of service organizations and other stakeholders supporting survivors from high-need, high-risk, and harder-to-reach communities; working with the coalition to develop a gender equity playbook and online platform to support survivors in the new post-COVID reality; and disseminating this knowledge through training workshops for service providing organizations.

At the end of the project, the Schlifer Clinic will have developed promising practices that increased networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change, supported positive distribution of authority, voices, and decision-making power, advanced inclusive policies and practices, and encouraged a more equitable and effective sharing of resources, to support GBV survivors.

This project will foster partnerships with GBV-service organizations, provincial networks, grassroots/community-based groups, and survivors with lived experience in the design, implementation, and evaluation of this promising practice. The evidence-based gender equity playbook and online platform will address the systemic barriers to gender equality experienced by survivors who are high-need, high-risk, or from harder-to-reach communities, and aid the GBV-service organizations that support them.

This project aims to contribute to the implementation of the Ethnic Chapter of the Colombian Peace Agreement through a feminist lens. The project also works to address the increase in post- Peace Agreement violence, particularly sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) against Afro-Colombian women and girls in Barbacoas, Buenaventura, the Caribe, Norte de Cauca, and Tumaco regions.
Project activities include: (1) conducting awareness raising activities on SGBV committed against Afro-Colombian women and girls; (2) increasing knowledge on services for survivors of SGBV, including domestic violence, through the publication and distribution of coronavirus (COVID-19) prevention and response materials; (3) conducting workshops to improve responses to SGBV by authorities and civil society operating in the focus regions of the project; (4) preparing and submitting to the Special Jurisdiction for Peace of an emblematic case on SGBV committed against Afro-Colombian women and girls; (5) holding community hearings on SGBV that promote healing and reconciliation; and (6) advocating for the continued implementation of the Ethnic Chapter through an Afro-Colombian feminist lens.

This is done by supporting activities, building institutional capacity, and promoting network and alliance-building as women’s rights and feminist organizations are critical agents of change.

This 30-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Women Transforming Cities will achieve this by empowering women’s organizations to influence municipal policies using an intersectional feminist lens, and engaging partners working with under-represented communities through City Action workshops and online resources to increase representation of diverse women’s voices in municipal political activities.

This 29-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change.

This 29-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Pacific Immigrant Resource Society will achieve this by developing and implementing community-based approaches to address intersectional barriers to equality for diverse women, engage women and/or gilrs with llived experience to influence pandemic recovery responses, convene and streghten the feminist movement to collaboaratively advance gender equality, build relatinoships between equality seeking organizations and other stakeholders to collaboarte across sectors to advance gender equality.

This 29-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of Covid-19, through systemic change. Pacific Immigrant Resources Society will achieve this by developing and implementing community-based appraoches to address intersectional barriers to equality for diverse women, engage women and/or girls with lived experience to influence pandemic recovery responses, convene and strengthen the feminist movement to collaboratively advance gender equality, build relationships between equality seeking organizations and other stakeholders to colloboarte across sectors to advance gender equality.

This 30-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change.

This 30-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change.

Organizational capacity will be enhanced through the development of a 3-year strategic plan; by strengthening Human Resources policies and procedures, including the creation of a renewed staffing and membership structure adapted for greater flexibility; and through the development of an evaluation framework and associated tools and resources, incorporating feminist and gender-sensitive approaches.