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Title:

Building a Childcare System that Works for Immigrant and Refugee Women

Agreement Number:

BC21546

Agreement Value:

$493,943.00

Agreement Date:

Nov 1, 2021 - Mar 31, 2024

Description:

This 29-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of Covid-19, through systemic change. Pacific Immigrant Resources Society will achieve this by developing and implementing community-based appraoches to address intersectional barriers to equality for diverse women, engage women and/or girls with lived experience to influence pandemic recovery responses, convene and strengthen the feminist movement to collaboratively advance gender equality, build relationships between equality seeking organizations and other stakeholders to colloboarte across sectors to advance gender equality. At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to addressing systemtic barriers by advancing inclusive policies and practices, encouraging networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change, and support positive authority, vocies and decision-making to support women's equality. The project will conduct a needs assessment, pilot a women's childcare worker peer-mentioring program, and enhance sector collaboration for accessible childcare. Key parnters include the Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC, the Westcoast Child Care Resource Centre, and Women's Economic Council of Canada.

Organization:

Women and Gender Equality Canada

Expected Results:

Women and stakeholders have access to supports to address issues relating to equality between women and men.

Location:

Vancouver, British Columbia, CA V5N 2S8

Reference Number:

001-2021-2022-Q3-00028

Agreement Type:

Contribution

Report Type:

Grants and Contributions

Recipient Type:

Not-for-profit organization or charity

Recipient's Legal Name:

Pacific Immigrant Resources Society

Program:

Women's Program

Program Purpose:

The purpose of the Women’s Program is to advance equality for women in Canada by working to address or remove systemic barriers impeding women’s progress and advancement. The WP supports the Government of Canada’s goal of advancing gender equality in Canada. It is consistent with Government of Canada priorities related to economic prosperity, and supports Canada’s international commitments related to gender equality.