Grants and Contributions

This 30-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, through systemic change. The Justice Education Society of British Colombia will achieve this by improving working conditions for childcare workers, increasing access to licenced childcare, providing education on employment rights and business operations, and increasing stakeholder collaboration and peer mentorship.

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 supporting positive distribution of authority, voices, and decision-making power.

The project will conduct a needs assessment, pilot a women’s childcare worker peer-mentoring program, and enhance sector collaboration for accessible childcare. The project will also integrate employment rights and business formation into Early Childhood Education (ECE) and professional development training by developing modular curriculum resources for ECE educators.

This 30-month project will support a feminist response and recovery to adress the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Supporting Women's Alternatives Network (SWAN Vancouver) Society will achieve this by thorough consultation with immigrant and migrant sex workers, community-based agencies, and media consultants to identify and analyze examples of problematic reporting. SWAN Vancouver will develop surveys and produce results to feed into the creation of a media kit and guidelines for journalists. They will identify trainee media outlets and specific journalists to raise awareness with targeting media's representation of immigrant and migrant sex workers’ post pandemic. An external evaluator will be consulted throughout the project to assist with planning, projections, and to evaluate the overall impact.

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; increasing networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change; supporting positive distribution of authority, voices, and decision-making power; and addressing persistent and harmful gender norms and attitudes to support women and gender equality.

This project will partner with local and national media outlets to shift the representations of immigrant and migrant sex workers. The intended outcome is the adoption of responsible, ethical, evidence-based journalism that is imbued with accuracy, objectivity, freedom from bias, integrity, and respect in mainstream media.

This 30-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Infinity Women Secretariat Inc. will achieve this by utilizing research and consultations to develop a Manitoba Métis women-specific gender equality toolkit, as well as policy and regulation guidelines. Gender equality training workshops will be developed and facilitated for the Métis government to complement the toolkit. A mid-term and final evaluation will be conducted to critically examine the project.

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; increasing networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change; supporting positive distribution of authority, voices, and decision-making power; and addressing persistent and harmful gender norms and attitudes to support women’s equality.

The Manitoba Métis Federation and its affiliates will partner with this organization to contribute to the implementation of the policies and regulation guidelines to increase women’s leadership in democratic, civic, public, and private sectors.

To implement Mission Critical, 4 offices of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives will collaborate with 8 community partners and DAWN Canada to examine the labour market experiences of marginalized female workers in hard-hit industrial sectors and the care economy, while conducting comparative policy research, and identifying and disseminating policy and program alternatives for advancing women economic security in the post-pandemic economy. The project will house and disseminate its findings through a new, user-friendly gender budgeting portal.

This 30-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Canadian Coalition of Women in Engineering, Science, Trades and Technology will achieve this by addressing discriminatory legislation, policies, and practices that prevent women 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, and engage men and boys to combat harmful gender norms and advance gender equality.

LFMO will develop and implement community-based approaches to address intersectional barriers to equality for diverse women, while enhancing reconciliation and distinction-based approaches for Indigenous women and/or girls’ safety, economic security and leadership opportunities.

At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by increasing networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change, encouraging more equitable and effective sharing of resources and advancing inclusive policies and practices to support women’s equality.

This 30-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Migrant Workers Centre BC Society 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. Migrant Workers Centre will design and implement policies and practices to increase women’s leadership in democratic, civic, public or private sectors, while building relationships between equality seeking organizations and other stakeholders to collaborate across sectors to advance gender equality

At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by advancing inclusive policies and practices, 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 seeks to develop a pan-Canadian task force on women in migration with the goal of
addressing the intersecting vulnerabilities that women migrants experience. Women’s relationship to immigration policies, pathways and status has been identified as creating barriers to, and challenges for equitable inclusion in Canadian society. The task force will bring together experts in the field, including women with lived experience, academics, migrant advocates and service providers, to collaborate across sectors and disciplines, share and pool resources, identify best practices, empower women with lived experience, engage in research using feminist methodologies, develop policy solutions, and inform policymakers. The task force will consist of a National Coordinating Committee (NCC) and four Regional Coordinating Committees (RCCs) in the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia and Manitoba.
Leadership training will be offered to women with lived experience in the four regions by the Migrant Workers Centre to develop expertise among migrant women and ensure that migrant women’s voices are included in policy conversations.

This 30-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Women in Leadership will achieve this by identifying and addressing persistent harmful gender norms and attitudes.
At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by increasing women’s labour market participation and opportunities by working with employers to create & amend policies and procedures as well as address gender biases so as to support more women applying for leadership and decision-making positions to support women’s equality.

This 6-month project will help LFMO to develop a fulsome leadership engagement strategy. LFMO will conduct research to identify what leadership opportunities currently exist for Métis women and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people. In addition, LFMO will be examining the relationship and connection between Métis women’s leadership and gender-based violence prevention. Research will include assessing these existing data sources and developing a needs assessment and resulting gap analysis through an environmental scan of which supports are needed to increase leadership opportunities for Métis women and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people.

LFMO will engage with provincial Métis women’s representative bodies, grassroots Métis women and LFMO’s Youth Network to determine different perspectives and ensure the project accurately reflects the unique needs of Métis women in each of the five Métis National Motherland provinces. LFMO will also meet with Métis subject matter experts in order to inform the development of a final report that reflects the realities and needs of Métis women and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people, including recommendations to WAGE as part of a more expensive proposal to the department.

These partnerships will result in increased accessibility to secure and meaningful employment, increased access to educational pathways, increased labour market participation and opportunities, removal of systemic barriers that prevent women’s participation in economic spheres, and improved economic security and prosperity for women.