Grants and Contributions

This 30-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Les Femmes Michif Otipemisiwak/ Women of the Métis Nation will achieve this by building relationships between equality seeking organizations and other stakeholders to collaborate across sectors to 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 project seeks to enhance, adapt and create new partnerships and frameworks in which to apply the Métis-specific CCGBA+ tool developed by Les Femmes Michif Otipemisiwak / Women of the Métis Nation. LFMO developed the toolkit with WAGE, in a part project, for use amongst stakeholder groups to ensure that the unique realities facing Métis women are incorporated into Métis-specific, pan-Indigenous, public policies– from the development to implementation. This tool was developed to challenge assumptions on the impact of process, policy and programming on Métis Women and girls in order to set the stage for attitudinal, operational and theoretical shifts. With this project, LFMO will produce an online training tool and a number of educational digital shorts, which will result in the first Métis specific training of this kind. The CCGBA+ tool was designed in the image and in consultation with Métis women, and offers an opportunity for systemic change, policy change, and transformation in many sectors, thus improving access, safety, and enhancing the experiences of Métis Women and girls in Canada.

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.

This 30-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Women in Resource Development Inc. will achieve this by establishing an advisory committee, strengthening key partnerships, synthesizing research and information, conducting a policy analysis and designing and implementing more holistic, flexible, and inclusive skills development policies and practices.

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

Throughout this project, the organization will engage directly with low-income women and partner organizations to address women’s persistent and systemic barriers to employment, which were enhanced during the COVID-19 pandemic. 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.

This 30-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Access to Justice and Law Reform Institute of Nova Scotia Ltd. will achieve this by developing training and resources, conducting research, networking and collaborating with stakeholders and drafting and compiling a final evaluation.

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

Access to Justice and Law Reform Institute of Nova Scotia Ltd. will draw upon the expertise of feminist and community organizations that work to end gender-based violence to develop tools and resources on how to navigate the family justice system, as well as how this system intersects with other justice and social service systems. This initiative aims at providing fair access to justice and equity for female-identified and non-binary people with children escaping gender-based violence.

This 30-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic changes for those experiencing gender-based violence. The Elizabeth Fry Society of Mainland Nova Scotia will achieve this by developing a work plan, completing a review of Atlantic systemic services with a focus on gender-based violence and human trafficking, establishing a Women’s Lived Experience Advisory Board, developing and executing an Atlantic Feminist Systemic Action Plan and Network, developing de-stigmatizing strategies for long-term sustainability and conducting an ongoing assessment and evaluation.

At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by increasing networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change, addressing persistent harmful gender norms and attitudes, supporting positive distribution of authority, voices, and decision-making power and advancing inclusive policies and practices to support women’s equality.

Throughout this project, the organization and their peers across the Atlantic provinces will work collaboratively to address and raise awareness on the continued systemic societal barriers and stigma victims and survivors of human trafficking and gender-based violence face. This collaboration will result in new policies and best practices that will be utilized to convey the fragility of the existing systems in place and to support this population through the current impacts of COVID-19.

This 21-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Pier Labs will achieve this by establishing a steering committee, conducting research, designing workshops, developing prototypes and disseminating their evaluation and knowledge.

At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by increasing a more equitable distribution of authority, voices, and decision-making power, enhancing networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change, and advancing inclusive policies and practices to support women’s equality.

Pier Labs and their key partner, the Valley Regional Enterprise Network, aim to develop a better economic infrastructure that integrates care work via supporting local women to design and test conceptual prototypes across the Annapolis Valley Region. This initiative will help advance women’s economic recovery from the current impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This 30-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Canadian Arab Women Association (CAWA) will achieve this by preparing Arab women (with zero or little work experience in Canada) for the Canadian job market, providing information sessions for their male partners to increase support, performing an employer-level gender gap analysis, and connecting with Waterloo Region employers to break stereotypes, remove barriers, and facilitate introductions.
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, and addressing persistent harmful gender norms and attitudes to support women’s equality.
The organization is ensuring they are culturally relevant by ensuring the project will be engaging a professional Arab Canadian woman with international work experience and exposure to the Arab culture as a specialist on resume writing with access to the job market, and a specialist on gender equality with exposure to the Arab culture and the Canadian workforce.

This 30-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Centr'Elles : Centre des Femmes Francophones du Nord-Ouest de l'Ontario will achieve this by (1) conducting a study on the experiences of Francophone women in Northwestern Ontario during the pandemic and the reality of immigrant, refugee and newcomer women in the region; (2) designing and conducting multi-faceted/topical workshops to engage, consult, educate and train various community stakeholders; (3) creating and implementing a task force to engage community and institutional professionals; (4) presenting the study findings, making recommendations, and coaching community leaders in their implementation; and (5) conducting outreach to local and regional political leaders.

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; and addressing persistent harmful gender norms and attitudes to support women’s equality.

As part of this project, partner organizations working with Francophone women in Northwestern Ontario will be involved to share their expertise and promote the project to the target populations. Centr'Elles: Centre des Femmes Francophones du Nord-Ouest de l'Ontario will establish other relevant partnerships during the implementation of the project to ensure its success and to help women overcome the impacts of COVID-19.