Grants and Contributions

West Central Women’s Resource Centre will work with a variety of partners throughout the project through a community of practice, and the success of the project will be assessed through an external evaluation framework.

A Métis Elder and Métis women, including GBV survivors, will also be included in the Project Advisory Group. Success will be measured by indicators such as the number of GBV detected, referrals per month and proportion accessed, as well as service provider commitment to implementing trainings into policy as an educational requirement.

The Guidelines will be trauma and survivor informed through an intersectional feminist lens to create transformational media, mainstreaming GBV as an urgent national issue that affects everyone. The successful implementation of the Guidelines will empower survivors, dismantle harmful gender norms, promote male engagement and gender equality overall.

The 29-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19 through systemic change. The Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC) will work with organizational leaders, women, role models, and community organizations to identify barriers and opportunities and co-design sustainable best practices, policies and processes to recruit, retain and advance women in leadership positions in the technology industry. Using a Gender-Based Analysis plus (GBA+) approach, the project will bring to the forefront real-life experiences, combined with organizational knowledge, research and consultation, to develop a toolkit that will be shared with interested organizations with the aim to support women’s advancement and economic empowerment in the digital economy. Over the course of the project, ICTC will establish a small steering committee comprised of women in technology leaders, industry and small business champions, organizations that support women in technology and underrepresented groups, and recognized diversity and inclusion firms or consultants. Several focus groups will be held with women leaders and employers to understand unique perspectives on barriers, systemic challenges, opportunities, best practices, and other relevant perspectives. A final report and co-creation toolkit will be developed, building on the data collected from the co-creation event and focus groups. A trend report describing the progress made and/or challenges faced by employers and women leaders in implementing some processes or recommendations from the toolkit. A launch event will present the updated toolkit and the findings and experiences shared throughout the study.

At the end of the project, the organization will have helped to address systemic barriers by encouraging more equitable and effective sharing of resources, increasing networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change, and supporting a positive distribution of authority, voice, and decision-making power to support women's equality.

ICTC will work with its extensive network of partners and relationships with industry, academia, governments, NGOs, referral organizations as well as several thousand active employers to engage and explore ways to jointly implement solutions and leverage efforts across Canada to maximize the project’s impact. The partners involved in the projects are organizations that have vision, knowledge and connections to the women in technology community.

The project will build partnerships with other community organizations through policy development workshops to promote Indigenous woman into leadership positions to make systemic changes at the stakeholder level. Success will be measured by the number of organizations reached to adopt the implementation of the Indigenous Women’s Economic Framework.

Through partnerships with local Indigenous education institutes, and the tech industry in Saskatchewan, policies and recommendations will be created and shared to governmental organizations, women’s programs, technology accelerators and educational institutions. Success will be measured by the impact of adjustments made to the Founder’s Table program resulting in more indigenous women being introduced to the technology industry.

Partnerships with the Alberta based Indigenous Primary Health Care and Policy Research network will be vital to the success of the project.

Support aboriginal communities in becoming successful participants in commercial fisheries and aquaculture

The objectives of the Program are to; support the development and utilization of effective approaches to address social issues and challenges;
develop, exchange and apply knowledge, tools and resources that address social needs of individuals, families and communities; foster partnerships and networks to address existing and emerging social issues; recognize and support the ability of not-for-profit organizations to identify and address social development priorities; and, recognize and promote community engagement initiatives (e.g. volunteerism, corporate social responsibility, innovation, partnerships, coalitions) that mobilize community assets and develop capacities and resources for action.

This project advances the Government of Canada commitment to plant an additional two billion trees over the next 10 years as part of a broader approach to nature-based climate solutions.