Grants and Contributions

This 29-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Canadian Centre for Women in Science, Engineering, Trades and Technology will achieve this by addressing discriminatory legislation, policies, and/or practices that prevent women and/or girls from fully participating in the social, political and economic spheres, design and implement policies and practices to increase women’s labour market participation and opportunities, , engage men and boys to combat harmful gender norms and advance gender equality, design and implement policies and practices to increase women’s leadership in democratic, civic, public or private sectors, build relationships between equality seeking organizations and other stakeholders to collaborate across sectors to advance gender equality.

This 6-month project will address gendered-based violence against Inuit women by supporting the advancement of equitable opportunities that promote success and safety of Inuit women. The project will develop a solutions-based approach with a focus on the
advancement of Inuit women's leadership. This will include activities such as a needs assessment, environmental scans, scoping and recommendations to increase Inuit women's leadership and advancement of safety in leadership roles.

Using a gender-based analysis plus lens, Pauktuutit will undertake an assessment that outlines gaps, barriers, and opportunities to increasing participation of Inuit women and girls in leadership and decision-making roles. The assessment will be informed by
available research and data, engagement with community members and other relevant stakeholders.

Ultimately, this project aims to increase the capacity and strengthen GBV prevention programming and supports, for Inuit women (including urban) and will directly impact Inuit women's ability to address their core safety needs when experiencing violence.

This 30-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. 11399527 Canada Society operating under the name of Future Black Female (FBF) - will achieve this by developing tools and resources to provide one-on-one career counselling and gather information on the barriers that Black women face in the labour market; organizing a regional educator and employer-focused career fair that is culturally relevant and responsive to the unique challenges experienced by Black women; engaging in ongoing collaborations with various community and corporate organizations to effectively mitigate the barriers to the economic security and prosperity of Black women in Ontario and creating and advocating for equitable and inclusive opportunities for Black women in the labour force, especially in recession proof career paths.

This 30-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Women's Rural Resource Centre of Strathroy and Area will achieve this by strengthening collaboration across the gender based violence (GBV) ecosystem in the areas of governance, leadership, infrastructure, programs and services; addressing gaps and barriers related to gender based equity and inclusion in policies and procedures; establishing communities of practice and opportunities for collaboration between rural GBV leaders across the region culminating in an inaugural Rural GBV Summit; supporting women with lived experience to amplify their voices and increase participation of rural women and girls impacted by GBV in rural systemic change. At the end of the project, the organization 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 increasing networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change to support women’s equality. This project will work with partners, including Huron Women's Shelter Second Stage Housing and Counselling Services, Optimism Place Stratford, the Centre of Organizational Effectiveness to enroll other community partners from intersecting sectors such as justice, health, poverty/homelessness, social services and education to engage in systemic change initiatives using a GBA+ lens to improve collaboration, address systemic structural barriers, and create inclusive, equity based policies, procedures, practices and programs across the region to decrease gender bases violence.

This 29-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Healthy Muslim Families Inc. will achieve this by conducting research and a gap analysis of GBV in Muslim Community, establishing a Muslim Women GBV advisory committee, establishing a roundtable of Muslim serving organizations, conducting community engagement sessions with survivors, Muslim community, Muslim leaders and service providers, establishing a Muslim Women Career Advancement committee, and through developing a healing and empowerment program that is culturally appropriate, anti-racist and trauma informed.

At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by advancing inclusive policies and practices, increasing networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change, and addressing persistent harmful gender norms and attitudes to support women’s equality.

This project aims to reach an estimated 40,000 women smallholder farmers and entrepreneurs in the poorest regions of northern Ghana, most at risk of COVID-19 pandemic-related rise in food insecurity. This project supports women working in three crop value-chains through activities that include: (1) offering agricultural and financial capacity-building; (2) broadening women’s access to labour-saving, innovative technologies through existing commercial outlets; (3) engaging male gender advocates; (4) working with traditional leaders; and (5) working directly with individual households to raise awareness of the respective contributions of all members. This project helps to shift social norms around the distribution of domestic work and facilitate women’s continued success and empowerment in the future, by raising awareness within communities of the importance and overall benefits of women’s economic participation. This project also boosts women farmers’ resilience to climate change by promoting diversification of crops and ecologically sound agricultural, food sustainability and organic waste management practices.

Raising awareness, increasing knowledge and strengthening capacities of grassroots women of NM/SM in effective peacebuilding in Cameroon

Mainstreaming gender, protection of journalists and promotion of human rights in conflict reporting in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon

CONVERGENCE Project: Improving the participation of local actors and leaders in the preservation and protection of the rights of key and vulnerable populations in Cameroon.

Citizen Action for Human Rights: Set up, train and deploy teams to collect and analyze information on cases of human rights violations to produce a report that will serve as advocacy.