Grants and Contributions

The empowerment of women and girls through capacity building, education, awareness raising and advocacy campaigns as well as teaching assertive skills to women and girls to help them stand up and speak out against all forms of abuse.

Lutter contre les violences faites aux enfants et aux femmes en Union des Comores et inciter la population comorienne à sortir du silence et protéger les victimes.

To purchase equipment that will improve safety at the airport

This 17-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Women’s Enterprise Organizations of Canada will achieve this by researching and analyzing the systemic barriers that prevent women entrepreneurs from accessing business growth capital and to use that knowledge to advocate for systemic change in lending policies. Lenders across Canada will be encouraged to use the educational tools and resources developed as part of the project to enhance understanding of the diverse needs of women entrepreneurs and implement changes within their institutions to overcome existing bias.

At the end of the project, Women’s Enterprise Organizations of Canada will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by advancing inclusive policies and practices, encouraging more equitable and effective sharing of resources, supporting positive distribution of authority, voices, and decision-making power, and addressing persistent harmful gender norms and attitudes to support women’s equality.

This 29-month project will support a feminist response to and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19 through systemic changes. To achieve this, the First Peoples Innovation Centre intends to survey communities on stereotypes and perceptions linked to jobs in digital technologies in order to identify systemic barriers limiting Indigenous women’s participation in FabLab Onaki. It will also host working meetings with Indigenous and non-Indigenous partners who are experts in the field to help adapt it to Indigenous women’s needs, test the model with a group of participants to confirm the effectiveness of the measures implemented, and share the project results with communities to encourage them to take part in developing digital and technological sectors so Indigenous women can participate fully in the digital economy.
By the end of the project, the organization aims to have helped remove systemic barriers by enabling more fair and efficient resource sharing, by enhancing networks for collaboration to expedite systemic changes, and by addressing harmful norms and attitudes that persist on gender.
Additionally, the First Peoples Innovation Centre will benefit from the support and expertise of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). As the creator of the FabLab model, MIT will participate in developing and adapting the principles of the FabLab Onaki as well as in sharing skills, knowledge, and best practices for establishing FabLabs.

This 29-month project will support a feminist response and recovery to address the current impacts of COVID-19 through systemic change. Archway Society for Domestic Peace will achieve this by developing a community approach to implement strategies that address intersectional barriers to equality for diverse women. Using a Gender-Based Analysis Plus (GBA Plus) approach, the focus will be on addressing priority issues related to violence, poverty, and access to resources that supports an economic response and recovery strategy.

By the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by developing and implementing community-based approaches to address intersectional barriers to equality for diverse women; increasing networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change; supporting a positive distribution of authority, voices, and decision-making power; and building relationships between equality-seeking organizations and other stakeholders to collaborate across sectors in order to advance gender equality. This project will build and enhance partnerships between women’s organizations, Indigenous groups, immigrant services, LGBTQ2S+ groups, and local non-profit community organizations. Recommendations to address women’s inequality and the COVID-19 economic recovery plan will be shared with organizational partners and government stakeholders.

The supplemental funds will be utilized to address increased staff costs in the last year of the project.

This 41-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. McGill University will achieve this by actively involving Indigenous girls and young women who have experience in arts-based work addressing gender-based violence (GBV), in the development and implementation of community-based activities that will create inclusive spaces for Indigenous boys and young men to participate in arts-based interventions. Building on this, the project will establish the Pathways2Equity Framework (Framework) which will detail steps to creating local and culturally relevant dialogues and knowledge-sharing events, and inform how to use 'dialogues-through-the-arts' approaches to: engage Indigenous boys and men in learning about GBV; dismantle harmful gender stereotypes and norms; and build foundations for establishing safer relationships. A pan-Canadian network will be established through sharing and discussing the Framework among communities with experience in arts-based interventions, and with new sites interested in adopting the Pathways2Equity approach. At the end of the project, McGill University will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by addressing persistent harmful gender norms and attitudes, advancing inclusive policies and practices, and supporting positive distribution of authority, voices, and decision-making power, to support women’s equality.

Driven by Indigenous youth – diverse groups of girls and young women working alongside diverse groups of boys and young men, the Pathways2Equity project will build upon ongoing arts-based work addressing GBV with Indigenous girls in three communities with varied settings and will optimize the leadership skills of Indigenous girls and young women. Through this project, McGill University will also address the need to engage boys and young men in work to disrupt broader social norms and structures that contribute to harmful gender stereotypes, inequality and ultimately fuel GBV.

Guided by the Pathways2Equity Framework, a network will be grown based on local and national interest and engagement. It will support dialogue-through-the arts engagement across the sites, and utilize social media to build the pan-Canadian initiative. A national knowledge sharing event will bring the project team, youth participants and other stakeholders together to review the Framework and generate ideas for its enhancement. Lastly, the project will include an Indigenous-led evaluation component that will seek to confirm evidence of positive change.

The 2024-2025 supplemental funds will cover costs associated with building on the insights gained from the initial project phase, with a focus on how male identified Indigenous youth can guide the development, scalability and sustainability of resources, and create meaningful dialogue, knowledge mobilization and support for promising practices related to arts-based facilitation and learnings about GBV. Key activity areas will be: youth and adult co-analysis of youth-led work to consider what else is needed to create authentic impact in community; consultation for the co-creation of knowledge mobilization tools; validation through peer connection and knowledge exchange; and, launch and dissemination of tools and resources that will further the potential for gender transformative work in addressing the root causes of GBV in community.

This project seeks to strengthen a pool of existing regional female experts made up of 30 women from women’s organizations that are members and partners of the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP), the project’s partner, in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, by sharing knowledge and adapted tools on Security Sector Reform (SSR) with them. This knowledge gets passed on at the community level, giving civil society organizations a stronger voice and enhancing communities’ access to information about SSR processes. At the same time, the activity will enable this pool to network with national security institutions, enhancing its contributions and leading to positive changes in attitudes about more inclusive governance of security.

Supporting commodity distribution for household food security
challenges exacerbated by COVID 19 with a focus on single mothers

The objective of this project is to provide a youth with some work experience in the agriculture and agri-food sector.