Grants and Contributions

The dual web-based platform will ensure that Indigenous women in community throughoutONWA’s membership and community partners will have access to ONWA developed GBVresources, tools, social media creatives and educational materials to support their work inaddressing and reducing instances of GBV.

These sessions will cover topics such as harmful gender norms/roles, disability stigma, education and health reporting, and the inclusive education resources available locally; (3) engaging with the communities through events involving trained community and youth champions, students, teachers, families, government officials, local media, and community leaders and members; (4) developing capacity building plans to support local stakeholders working for gender equality and inclusive education; (5) hosting knowledge sharing workshops on gender equality and inclusive education.

Project activities include: 1) supporting capacity building for women, youth groups and grassroots community organizations on conflict prevention, dialogue and mediation; 2) organizing a national consultation and media training workshops on peacebuilding, conflict prevention and combating information pollution; 3) set up a digital early-warning platform by creating a network of “whistle-blowers” in different regions of the country who observe election-related tensions and violence; 4) organize dialogues between women and political, religious, traditional and customary actors; 5) produce and disseminate a study on the impact of electoral violence on women in Senegal; and 6) support capacity building for the High Council for Social Dialogue.

This project works in partnership with Plan International Canada, the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada(SOGC), and RNW Media, as well as numerous local women’s rights groups and youth organizations across the project countries.

Project activities include: (1) supporting the holding of a constitutional referendum and general elections to end the transition; (2) assisting the transition authorities to conduct inclusive reforms and develop a framework to build confidence for the organization of democratic and peaceful elections; (3) supporting women's organizations to promote the political participation of women, youth, and people living with disabilities in institutional reforms and electoral processes; (4) helping the media to promote the transparency of electoral processes and reforms; (5) supporting the framework of the electoral support mandate of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali; (6) supporting the mitigation of misinformation, preventing conflicts, and strengthening dialogue between national actors; and (7) providing technical support for the management of electoral disputes.

Project activities include: (1) forming and overseeing sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) youth clubs and peer groups, to provide a venue for educating young people on SRH topics, and also to encourage young people to share their knowledge about SRHR-related information with their communities; (2) providing training and coaching to teachers and educators to deliver education and support to adolescents and young adults on SRHR topics; (3) providing training to health workers and health facility administrators and managers to deliver high-quality SRH services, particularly for adolescents and young adults; (4) supplying equipment (including water, sanitation, and hygiene infrastructure) to health care facilities across all three countries; and (5) running mass-media campaigns to raise community awareness around SRHR topics, and encourage advocacy and demand for better policy and services.

Project activities include: (1) running a mass-media campaign at the national level to raise awareness and support for more inclusive sexual and reproductive health and rights-related policies and services for adolescent girls and boys and young women and men; (2) providing training and coaching to health care providers in facilities across Malawi about providing gender-sensitive and adolescent-friendly SRH services; (3) providing training and coaching to teachers and educators-in-training about providing comprehensive sexual education to young Malawians; and (4) organizing and supporting over 800 advocacy and peer groups of adolescent girls and boys, and young women and men.

The Committee on Social Affairs, Gender, Technologies and Social Media (the Committee) of the Assembly of the Republic (AR) is working in partnership with the Coalition for the Elimination of Early Marriage (CECAP) to address the recommendation to establish a minimum age of marriage at 18 years of age and explicitly prohibiting marriage before 18 years of age, as well as harmonizing laws and reviewing customary practises to avoid early marriage.

Armagh will achieve this by increasing equal access to its programs and services and community education and awareness
about gender-based violence in Peel Region; sharing recommended sustainable changes and adaptations following an environmental scan with service providers; creating, distributing and marketing a resource matrix through a service mapping initiative of violence against women services to meet the needs of specific populations; and developing and disseminating education materials through community engagement, presentations and awareness social media and marketing campaigns. 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 resources, developing networks and collaborations, and changing norms and attitudes
about gender-based violence in Peel Region to support women’s equality.

It will compile and analyze procurement policies and practices, develop model language for inclusion in procurement policies for engineering services, obtain endorsement and support from key stakeholders, advocate to municipal and provincial public sector entities to urge adoption of inclusive criteria in procurement for engineering services, advocate to industry associations, and promote the model language through social media and trade publications.

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 resources, developing networks and collaborations and changing norms and attitudes to support women’s equality.