Grants and Contributions

Activities will focus particularly on building capacity and strategic planning for national expansion and enhanced national advocacy, including through research and partnership building with businesswomen, service providers, and other stakeholders invested in advancing women’s economic prosperity through entrepreneurship.

Activities will be guided by an advisory committee and further supported by existing anti-violence and human trafficking committees, representing several urban and rural communities in Ontario, as well as researchers from the Western University. Anova will engage with Indigenous, youth, newcomer and Francophone survivors to pilot and improve the Spectrum of Exploitation tool.

SCO will then support an advisory group to guide the project, and partner with the Women’s Research Institute to create a process evaluation framework and seek out further partnerships.

The project focuses on conducting research and delivering capacity-building programmes to ethnic minority women and communities to support their adoption of nature-based solutions (NBS) to enhance biodiversity conservation.

Project activities include: (1) supporting research on cacao NBS; (2) providing technical training on cacao NBS and technical support for cocoa farmers; (3) helping associations or cooperatives and their members set up and implement diversified cacao agroforestry plots and prepare for ‘zero deforestation’ certification standards; (4) delivering an inclusive organizational strengthening program for participating associations or cooperatives; (5) developing gender-sensitive and climate change-resilient business plans and strategies; (6) setting up transformative women leadership schools within participating associations or cooperatives; and (7) facilitating market access by linking innovative financing mechanisms and connections with potential buyers.

The purpose of this project is to collect and analyze the privacy permissions and releases automakers require of their Canadian customers in exchange for access to the onboard features and connected applications in their vehicles. Researchers will compile information using actual current-model-year vehicles, vehicle owner’s manuals, automaker websites, and information from auto dealers when it is available.

Project activities include: (1) convening a reference group that includes donors, civil society, academics, experts in gender and education in emergencies, and women from underrepresented contexts, to promote and drive progress on improving research, evidence, and sex-disaggregated data and accountability on girls’ and women’s education in fragile, crisis, and conflict settings; (2) developing and disseminating information on key issues related to women’s and girl’s education in fragile, crisis and conflict settings and the Charlevoix Declaration on Quality Education; (3) supporting the development of a platform on the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) website to promote access to high quality, vetted, gender-responsive resources that highlight good practices; (4) updating INEE’s gender thematic web pages, including information on Charlevoix Declaration commitments, and helping to make INEE’s social media presence more gender-responsive; (5) providing support to INEE’s Journal on Education in Emergencies (JEiE) to develop a special edition on gender-responsive programming in emergencies, including reporting on the Charlevoix Declaration education commitments; and (6) translating these resources into INEE’s core languages (English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Arabic) where appropriate.

The IDP review is also researching three enabling factors: (1) availability of humanitarian financing; (2) availability and reliable data and analysis on internal displacement; and (3) and humanitarian access.

The Northwestern Ontario Women’s Centre (NOWC) will achieve this by operationalizing the implementation of their High Risk Navigation Protocol and promoting its use as a central tool among service providers to relocate the safety of women, Trans and non-binary people and their children at the front end of the systemic response to Gender Based Violence (GBV); scaling up the GBV Navigation advocate position; creating a Court advocate position to reinforce and monitor the use of safety measures in legal processes; identifying gaps, examining links, researching alternative measures; and creating and publishing recommendations to change GBV protocols and policies, disseminating information, encouraging systemic change, promoting effective measures of accountability and prevention of GBV both inside and outside the criminal legal system.

More specifically, the project will tackle systemic barriers to ageism faced by older women in Chaudière-Appalaches: by deploying action research to identify concrete strategic recommendations to implement in the region; by documenting best practices through the provincial consultations of the Tables de groupes de femmes; by creating a community action plan aimed to ensure their full participation in society and democracy; and by increasing knowledge about ageism toward older women and ways to deconstruct it.