Grants and Contributions

This 12-month project will engage women and community stakeholders in the development and implementation of strategies that will improve the economic prosperity of Francophone women in Canada. The project will establish strategic partnerships and collaboration between RDÉE organizations and other stakeholders in order to better identify and respond to the economic needs of immigrant women. It will work to eliminate the obstacles and factors that limit the capacity of Francophone women entrepreneurs by identifying the challenges and issues they face.

This 26-month project will address organizational capacity needs to allow the Young Women’s Leadership Network to continue encouraging civic leadership and participation among Black, Indigenous and racialized young women and gender-diverse youth. A series of activities will be undertaken to build national, provincial/territorial and local capacity, including through fund development, human resources management and strategic planning.

The project will also develop an approach to support Black, Indigenous and racialized young women to take action to advance gender equality at the national level. Youth will have access to mentors, issue-focused learning opportunities, and skill-development workshops in order to learn how to advance solutions that will address the gaps facing marginalized women/femmes.

This five-year project will develop a pan-Canadian and bilingual strategy to advance gender equity to respond to and address GBV against Black women and girls through the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.

This 26-month project will address organizational capacity needs to allow Young Women’s Leadership Network (Platform) to continue encouraging civic leadership and participation among Black, Indigenous and racialized young women and gender-diverse youth. A series of activities will be undertaken to build national, provincial/territorial and local capacity, including through fund development, human resources management and strategic planning.

The project will also develop an approach to support Black, Indigenous and racialized young women to take action to advance gender equality at the national level. Youths will have access to mentors, issue-focused learning opportunities, skill-development workshops in order to learn how to advance solutions that will address the gaps facing marginalized women/femmes.

Combating Gender-Based Violence (GBV) against girls, boys and women in rural communities in Georgia during COVID-19 and beyond through guidebook and training module development, and through trainings for educational practitioners.

This 44-month project with Hiatus House will develop and implement promising practices that will entail the development of guidelines and tools to help shelter professionals and allied partners working with survivors of Human Trafficking to advance knowledge and enhance empowerment supports to non-status, refugee, immigrant and racialized women.

This will be achieved by hiring a project coordinator; conducting literature review and developing, implementing and disseminating of guidance and tools to screen, assess, and intervene effectively with survivors as they access shelter services. The project will foster partnerships with key stakeholders and include the voice of people with lived experience.

At the end of the project, the organization will have advanced knowledge and developed effective interventions to help survivors of human trafficking.

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

The supplement funding will be used to create training resources for primary and allied organizations working with survivors of human trafficking, implement training tools with additional agencies across the sector and/or person with lived experience in Chatham, Sarnia, Windsor-Essex, develop and disseminate public education tools and host a specialized community event to educate social service sector and increase awareness of exploitation within the community, identification of experiences of exploitation, and resources available to engage in proactive and preventative conversations.

Also, this project supports women and girls by providing analysis on the gendered impacts of conflict and aid, thereby enabling donors and partner organizations to better design and implement gender-sensitive programming.

This 38-month project with the Elizabeth Fry (Unison) Society will develop and implement a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary service delivery approach to advance knowledge and enhance empowerment supports for at-risk populations, such as Indigenous women and girls and youth and survivors of human trafficking.

This will be achieved by identifying staff and partners; developing and implementing prevention measures and tools; providing transition resources; and by providing healthy reintegration support to those who have survived the experience of human trafficking.

At the end of the project, the organization will have identified project staff, Ad Hoc Committee and expert consultants; developed prevention measures and tools; developed a transitioning plan based on the needs of survivors of human trafficking; and developed a multi-level safe re-entry plan for survivors of human trafficking by partnering with community agencies.

The project will include an external evaluation. The purpose of the external evaluation is to evaluate the promising practice(s) that were 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.

Raising awareness on gender-based violence through an advocacy campaign including panel discussions

Project activities include: (1) providing nutrition-sensitive home-gardening kits and training on climate-smart agriculture and financial management to women farmers; (2) creating market linkages between school meal suppliers and poultry farmers; (3) raising awareness of school principals, teachers and students on gender equality, nutrition and healthy diets; and (4) promoting healthy habits, such as hand washing, in schools.