Grants and Contributions

Project activities include: (1) improving the efficiency, transparency and accountability of the mining licensing management and geo-data systems, including related social and environmental standards; (2) strengthening the Ministry of Mines’ human resource management to create opportunities for gender sensitive professional development and employment; and (3) improving the Ministry of Mines’ ability to promote domestic and foreign investments in its sector.

This 38-month project will test a remote training and mentorship program for shelter workers to better support vulnerable children and youth in northern, rural and remote areas who have experienced and/or witnessed gender-based violence. The project will be based on the Prevention, Education, Advocacy, Counselling, and Empowerment (PEACE) Program developed by BC Society of Transition Houses (BCSTH) for children and youth responding to violence.

This 38-month project with the YWCA Halifax will develop and implement the Coordinated Access to Support Exit (CASE) model, a promising intervention practice to advance knowledge and enhance empowerment supports for at-risk populations and survivors of human trafficking in Nova Scotia. This will be achieved by building wrap-around case conferencing tables, by providing survivors with culturally-relevant, trauma-informed and responsive supports, by increasing access to safe housing, and by evaluating the efficacy of coordinated access as a meaningful community-based tool to combat human trafficking.

At the end of the project, the sector will have a new model of collaborative service provision for victims and survivors of human trafficking that is developed and tested. In turn, victims and survivors of human trafficking will have access to wrap-around supports to exit the sex trade, begin their healing and reintegrate into their communities.

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.

Mobilization of the Turkish private sector along with key stakeholders in Turkey that work at the intersection of renewable energy, refugee response and gender equality to work towards the Clean Energy Challenge vision of ensuring clean energy access in settings where climate change and displacement have disproportionate impacts

Enhancing COVID-19 accountability through research, coordination and advocacy to ensure a more inclusive, gender-focused policy response

The Propel Survivor Development Centre will be offered to Survivors age 16 and up of all genders who have experienced labour and/or sexual human trafficking, both in person, and through online platforms.

The Propel Survivor Development Centre will be offered to Survivors age 16 and up of all genders who have experienced labour and/or sexual human trafficking, both in person, and through online platforms.

Project activities include: i) developing gender responsive and age sensitive hygiene and infection prevention campaigns; ii) ensuring the availability of WASH services and products in healthcare facilities and schools and for vulnerable populations, such as internally displaced people (IDPs) and host communities, iii) providing infection prevention and control materials and training to health care workers; iv) providing adequate protection services to girls and boys at risk, to prevent and respond to sexual abuse, family separation, gender based violence (GBV), and stigmatization; v) providing school aged children and their caregivers access to distance learning opportunities; and vi) supporting the schools in their preparedness to reopening and reintegrating vulnerable children in a safe learning environment.

With Canada’s assistance, the Project aims to reach 5,000,000 people (50% women and girls) nationwide with adequate information on hygiene and other prevention measures through gender-responsive communication, community engagement, and social mobilization.

By the end of the project, the organization aims to have helped remove systemic barriers by enhancing networks and collaboration to expedite systemic change, promoting inclusive policies and practices and addressing the harmful norms and attitudes that persist on gender in support of women’s equality.

This 30-month project will support a feminist response to and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19 through systemic change. To achieve this, the Réseau des femmes d’affaires du Québec plans to: develop and implement policies and practices that increase participation by and opportunities for underrepresented women entrepreneurs in the business world; and establish relationships between equality-seeking businesses and other stakeholders to collaborate on a sector-wide basis toward improving access by underrepresented women entrepreneurs to the supply chains of large corporations.

By the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by advancing inclusive policies and practices, and by expanding networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change in support of women’s equality.

The Réseau des Femmes d’affaires du Québec (RFAQ) will help underrepresented women entrepreneurs overcome structural inequalities exacerbated by the pandemic. The project will address the systemic dual bias confronting women entrepreneurs from minority groups and hampering their access to the supply chains of large corporations. The project will focus on four areas of action: identifying systemic biases, engaging 75 large companies to adopt inclusive procurement practices, supporting women entrepreneurs in developing skills they can use to win contracts with major corporations, and initiating networking meetings allowing them to interact with buyers and broaden their network of contacts.