Grants and Contributions

This project addresses gender-based barriers preventing access to education within internally displaced persons’ (IDPs) communities, caregivers and families. This project also aims to improve the provision of gender-responsive, safe and quality education through schools and distance education. Project activities include: (1) providing training to teachers and students on gender and age responsive coronavirus (COVID-19) precaution measures; (2) providing equipment and supplies (for example, personal protective equipment and dignity kits) to schools; (3) establishing and strengthening community-based gender and age responsive girls’ clubs; (4) providing girls and boys with gender and age responsive distance education materials; and (5) providing training to pre-primary children caregivers on supporting reading and math at home.

This 36-month project will build capacity of the Childcare Resource and Research Unit (CRRU) to advance childcare priorities, specifically focusing on unpaid care work, in order to help secure a child care system for all, which is a key issue exacerbated by COVID-19, as part of an inclusive post-pandemic recovery and economy. This project will engage a broad range of Canadians in a number of ways to gather evidence about child care’s centrality to women’s economic security and prosperity, through knowledge production and widespread knowledge transfer related to new and emerging developments in child care. The project will enhance CRRU's primary role in advancing women's equality through childcare by engaging partners, producing and disseminating analytical/empirical evidence to address new/emerging developments; and developing a roadmap to undertake collective action with women's movement partners.

This 36-month project will build the organizational capacity of Mothers Matter Centre (MMC) and its partners in order to better serve isolated women susceptible to violence, effectively during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The project aims to enhance the skill level of organizational staff so that they can support vulnerable refugee, non-status, immigrant and Indigenous women in remaining connected to essential services and supports to deal with the disproportionate impacts of the pandemic. This will be achieved through the development of an innovative, culturally appropriate, and multi-lingual violence prevention training program that will be delivered to approximately 120 staff across the country with the goal of preventing, identifying and tackling abuse. As a result, MMC and its partners will be able to provide more holistic services and leadership skills to women employed through the program and will build capacity through a train the trainer approach.

The immediate beneficiaries include the ASEAN Secretariat and relevant ASEAN sectoral bodies, ASEAN Committee on Women (ACW) and ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children (ACWC), and Member States of ASEAN (duty bearers) and gender advocates, civil society women’s organizations and associations at regional and national levels (rights holders).

Project activities include the following: (1) delivering training workshops on effective, gender-based care for direct and indirect victims of human trafficking to government employees who are responsible for assisting them in Colombia; (2) providing technical support to Defensoría del Pueblo, an advocacy organization, to build its capacity to develop recommendations for improving care for human trafficking victims that are tailored to local needs and are in line with international standards applicable in Colombia; and (3) delivering training workshops on strategic litigation for emblematic human trafficking cases to government employees and lawyers who represent trafficking victims in Colombia.

The project will develop quality gender-responsive civic education and media literacy programming for delivery through the formal education system (grades 6-11) in 5 key districts in Colombia. A second track of work will provide gender-sensitive civic education and media literacy tools, training and resources for education stakeholders and professionals in country.

This 49-month project with Migrant Workers Centre BC Society will develop and implement a specialized, trauma-sensitive, culturally competent leadership training program to equip the female survivors of labour trafficking with education and skills building to advance knowledge and enhance empowerment supports for survivors of human trafficking. This will be achieved by developing and delivering training program, providing practicum placements, conducting outreach to program partners, and evaluating the project outcomes.

At the end of the project, the organization will have developed and delivered a leadership training program and curriculum designed for the labour trafficking survivors. The participants will receive 12-hour individual paid practicum placements at the Migrant Workers Centre, as well as volunteer opportunities with the Salvation Army. The organization will also provide ongoing social services support, and post-graduation support to the participants.

The project will include an external evaluation: The purpose of the external evaluation is to evaluate the promising practice(s) that was developed, tested and implemented during the course of this project. The evaluator will be external to the organization and will have experience and expertise in evaluation.

The supplemental funding will be used to identify new partners, analyze and incorporate evaluation results and feedback, incorporate digital tools to streamline program delivery, expand the delivery of the course to three additional regions of British Columbia, and translate and deliver the course to Spanish and French-speaking participants.

This 25-month project with The Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver will work with project partners to develop and implement a network of additional resources and pathways for women and service providers within Metro Vancouver to advance knowledge and enhance empowerment supports for Indigenous and racialized women and girls, those who are criminalized or exiting the child welfare system or experiencing homelessness, migrants and new immigrants, LGBTQ2S+, and persons with cognitive disabilities or FASD.

This will be achieved by training and technical assistance through linkage with community and civil society stakeholders; client outreach and program entry through the project partner services; client advocacy and intensive case management; and direct services through in-house agency resources and referrals to community organizations.

At the end of the project, the organization will advance knowledge and enhance empowerment supports for at-risk populations and survivors of human trafficking; redevelop the framework of case management by creating a new tool for sequential methods to support and identify victims and survivors; and empower them to regain control of their lives through increased community supports and initiatives that help address the critical factors placing them at ongoing risk.

The project will include an external evaluation that will look at the success and scalability of the promising practices.

This 36-month project aims to work towards institutional change in housing policies and practices at local, provincial, territorial and federal levels, by ensuring that they are informed by a holistic, inclusive and intersectional feminist voice and reflect the housing needs of women and children across Canada, with a focus on those who are affected by barriers to safe, affordable and appropriate housing. The project will present calls to action to government bodies and monitor the progress of subsequent government commitments, ensuring that such commitments are captured in the National housing strategy and that women-centered policies are developed at federal, provincial and territorial levels. The project will work to create a space for women and women-serving organizations from across Canada, to come together to better understand the barriers to safe, affordable and appropriate housing. The project will develop alternatives that will be informed by women’s experiences.

Global Affairs Canada’s support helps GEI focus its efforts on assisting governments in developing their capacity for evidence in an inclusive, culturally sensitive manner and considers gender and other aspects of inclusion.