Grants and Contributions

This project aims to combat sexual violence within the Congolese immigrant and refugee Francophone communities in New Brunswick.

Enhancement of Official Languages Program - Promotion of Linguistic Duality

Immigration and refugee legal aid contributes to a fair, efficient asylum system. This three-year contribution agreement between Canada and Saskatchewan Legal Aid Commission will support the delivery of immigration and refugee legal aid services in Saskatchewan.

This project aims to support Humanitarian Outcomes’ (HO) core research and analytical functions, while enhancing the overall availability and accessibility of reliable data within the humanitarian sector. It seeks to support HO to maintain and enhance its Aid Worker Security Database and Global Database of Humanitarian Organizations. These datasets provide the humanitarian sector with a comprehensive and rigorous source of open data on aid worker violence and build an empirical evidence base for analysis on changing security environments for aid operations.

Project activities include: (1) improving the quality and accessibility of data on the safety and security of humanitarian personnel by supporting the Aid Workers Security Database and the Global Database of Humanitarian Organizations; (2) providing independent, evidence-based research for analyzing security, access, and coverage in high-risk environments; and (3) providing gender-disaggregated data for all major incidents involving aid workers to enable gender-sensitive analysis of trends in violence and risk exposure.

This 29-month research project aims to address systemic barriers to understanding and responding to economic abuse experienced by Black, Indigenous, and other racialized women across Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta, British Columbia, and the Northwest Territories by conducting a national study on economic abuse among racialized women. The study will examine the prevalence, forms, and consequences of economic abuse (including economic control, exploitation, and employment sabotage) across these regions. All research activities will be trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and guided by an advisory committee composed of survivors and community representatives.

The FRF supports WROs/WLOs to provide humanitarian response services in their communities, with a focus on humanitarian aid to high-need groups who often face barriers to access, including refugees and internally displaced people, women with disabilities, gender expansive and transgender people, Indigenous and Black women, rural women, and those at the intersection of many of these identities.

Through this 18-month project, DisAbled Women’s Network of Canada (DAWN Canada) will scale a peer support model for women with disabilities (WWD) who are survivors of gender-based violence (GBV) to new local and national partners across Canada. The model addresses gaps in access to peer support for WWD survivors of GBV and focuses on ensuring representation from intersecting identities (such as Black, Indigenous, Racialized, Francophone, 2SLGBTQI, and Deaf women). Project activities will include developing curriculum, delivering training, and providing coaching and support to partners to implement peer support programs. A Community of Practice will also be created to facilitate knowledge transfer. An evaluation report will be developed to share information on the promising practice with others so they may replicate or expand upon it.

Case studies, innovation and applied research

Through this 18-month project, Woman Abuse Council of Toronto (WomanACT) will scale the Canadian Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC) model to improve the identification and response to Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) cases and strengthen the GBV sector. The project will expand upon and operationalize the work undertaken by WomanACT in the original Canadian pilot site of Toronto, and further adapt the model to 8 communities in Alberta. To do so, it will expand community partnerships and provide capacity-building to key organizations to foster a coordinated and resilient response; develop a logic model and evaluation framework; implement MARAC protocols and processes in Toronto in line with the plan for integration developed in the project’s first iteration; partner with Sagesse to design adapted MARAC protocols and processes for model implementation in 8 new pilot sites in Alberta; and engage in knowledge mobilization to bridge the gap between research and action and drive informed decision-making to improve IPV services. At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to improving IPV responses, to enhancing collaboration across sectors, and to ensuring a more comprehensive, coordinated approach to supporting survivors, ultimately leading to safer communities and better outcomes for individuals impacted by IPV.

The purpose of this contribution is to reimburse Prasanna Balasundaram for activities undertaken by him in his role as a Special Advocate in relation to hearings before the court.