Grants and Contributions

The NWHRI promotes an intersectional lens to research and care to tackle persistent gaps for all women, including for Indigenous, Black, and racialized women, women with disabilities, and members of Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and additional sexually and gender diverse (2SLGBTQI+) communities.

The NWHRI promotes an intersectional lens to research and care to tackle persistent gaps for all women, including for Indigenous, Black, and racialized women, women with disabilities, and members of Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and additional sexually and gender diverse (2SLGBTQI+) communities.

The purpose of this contribution is to provide funding to engage in a multi-year, nationally representative, longitudinal mixed methods research project investigating the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and intersex (2SLGBTQI) youth and adults and their experiences with domestic violence and abuse.

Project activities include: (1) conducting a meta-analysis on the state of research on LGBTQI+ persons in forced displacement globally, with a particular focus on the situation of transgender and non-binary persons, lesbian and bisexual women, and intersex persons; (2) convening roundtables on refugee protection issues with civil society organizations, forcibly displaced people, and goverment representatives in 5 transit countries for forcibly displaced people; (3) convening a 3-day conference on policy issues related to forced displacement in a Global South transit country.

This project aims to increase funding directed towards improving the lives of LGBTI persons across the world, including improved funding equity for organizations led by marginalized groups (e.g. Bisexual, Trans, Intersex, Women, and Youth). Project activities include: (1) Conducting research surveys on the needs, strategies and capacity of LGBTI organizations and networks; (2) Producing regional reports on LGBTI movement needs and priorities identified through the regional surveys; (3) Providing training and technical assistance on strategy development and research skills building to LGBTI organizations engaged in LGBTI movement research.

Planned to last 2 years, the project will specifically aim to increase the power of LBTQI women and girls at the national level (in Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, and Senegal), at the regional level in West Africa, and at the international level by promoting the integration of the voices of West African LBTQI women and girls into international spaces of dialogue and mobilization, such as the UN system and international networks such as ILGA.

The project assumes that the health and well-being of LBTQI women and girls will be improved if their power is sustained, particularly through improved provision of health services tailored to their specific needs and interests, increased capacity for collective organization, and increased exchanges at the national, regional, and international levels.

This will be achieved by building organizational capacity to deliver mental health supports, and offer safe, affordable support and resources for who people who identify as gender diverse, transgender, and/or having a DSD intersex, to improve their quality of life in the Shuswap region.

Project activities include: (1) improving the delivery of rights-based sexual and reproductive health services, promoting gender equality, positive masculinity, and sexual and reproductive rights through improved, peer-led school education; (2) empowering adolescent girls and vulnerable and stigmatized populations to seek, advocate for, and access their sexual and reproductive rights and human rights; (3) target vulnerable and stigmatized populations, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) people and sex workers, health service providers, educators, parents, community leaders, and policymakers; and (4) reach through inclusive health services, peer-led sexual and reproductive health education, improved school-based health curriculum and instruction, social media campaigns, and research and advocacy skills.

Promoting the registration and documentation rights for Intersex, Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Refugees and Asylum Seekers’ in Kenya through research, training and awareness raising campaigns

British Columbia Assembly of First Nations (BCAFN) will achieve this by engaging women, Two Spirit (2S), lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQQIA+) people on the development and implementation of a BCAFN women, 2S, LGBTQQIA+ people’s strategy, implementing changes to BCAFN’s governance documents, and piloting a First Nations-specific GBA+ toolkit, webinar and training module for use in BCAFN and First Nations’ policies, and decision-making.