Grants and Contributions

This 30-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19 through systemic change. South Asian Women’s and Immigrants’ Services Inc. will achieve this by addressing systemic barriers within social policy decision making, networking and collaboration among equity-seeking organizations and initiatives, and allocation of social policy development and delivery resources; by engaging visible minority newcomer women of a community highly impacted by the pandemic as project leaders, activists, and participants; by investigating the lived experience of the pandemic by women in the project target community; and by sharing information and knowledge gained with social policy stakeholders and influencers, including sharing the pandemic response organized locally by community women leaders as a model for effective intervention by women-led community organizations.

This 27-month project will support a feminist response to and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19 through systemic changes. To achieve this, the Conseil québécois LGBT intends to raise awareness and advise Quebec municipalities in developing and implementing inclusive practices that allow LGBTQ2 women to access municipal services in a way that sufficiently responds to their realities.

This project will involve representatives from the GBV sector and survivors of GBV during COVID-19 in each project component. The effectiveness of the strategy developed and the promising practices piloted by the selected partners will be carefully documented in order to adjust the tools developed accordingly.

Canada Cultural Spaces Fund

This will be achieved by developing a strategic plan; consolidating Glad Day as a non-profit; expanding and diversifying revenue streams; improving financial planning and reporting; and adapting and improving Glad Day programming, services and community-building in a post-COVID context.

At the end of the project, the organization will have increased knowledge and capacity to advance equality with respect to sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression.

April 2022 - Global food insecurity is rising at an increasing rate, exacerbated by conflict, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic. Rigorous and reliable food security analysis is critical to ensuring humanitarian decision makers can deploy resources effectively.

August 2021 - Prior to the onset of the coronavirus (COVID-19), humanitarian needs, including those related to food security, had already reached unprecedented levels.

For example, how standards are relevant to, or implemented across diverse groups, such as populations marginalized by racism and/or underserved populations (e.g., LGBTQ2S+, gender diverse youth), or groups significantly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond efforts to bolster the principles of equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI), CIHR recognizes that First Nations, Inuit and Métis are rights-holding as First Peoples of Canada, and initiatives should be developed through distinctions-based approaches, as found in the strategic plan Setting new directions to support Indigenous research and research training.

For example, how standards are relevant to, or implemented across diverse groups, such as populations marginalized by racism and/or underserved populations (e.g., LGBTQ2S+, gender diverse youth), or groups significantly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond efforts to bolster the principles of equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI), CIHR recognizes that First Nations, Inuit and Métis are rights-holding as First Peoples of Canada, and initiatives should be developed through distinctions-based approaches, as found in the strategic plan Setting new directions to support Indigenous research and research training.

For example, how standards are relevant to, or implemented across diverse groups, such as populations marginalized by racism and/or underserved populations (e.g., LGBTQ2S+, gender diverse youth), or groups significantly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond efforts to bolster the principles of equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI), CIHR recognizes that First Nations, Inuit and Métis are rights-holding as First Peoples of Canada, and initiatives should be developed through distinctions-based approaches, as found in the strategic plan Setting new directions to support Indigenous research and research training.