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Title:

Women’s Equality Leadership & Employment Access Response Network (WE LEARN)

Agreement Number:

ON21720

Agreement Value:

$499,954.00

Agreement Date:

Oct 1, 2021 - Mar 31, 2024

Description:

This 30-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Elizabeth Fry Toronto will achieve this by holding consultations with key stakeholders, formalizing partnerships to establish a multi-sectoral network, facilitating peer leadership development and engagement from women with lived expertise, holding network meetings and one-on-one consultations, conducting developmental evaluations, and leading the dissemination of key learnings and recommendations. At the end of the project, Elizabeth Fry Toronto will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by increasing networks and collaborations to accelerate systemic change, and supporting the positive distribution of authority, voices, and decision-making power to support women’s equality. This project will bring together a network of multi-sectoral partners, including diverse women peer leaders with lived expertise, to address gaps and barriers, implement strategies, and develop pathways to improve the economic security and prosperity for women who have been in conflict with the law, as part of an inclusive feminist recovery. This multi-sectoral network will include community-based employment service providers, city representatives, academic institutions, multi-sector employers, social entrepreneurs, and community-owned businesses.

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:

Toronto, Ontario, CA M4X 1G1

Reference Number:

001-2021-2022-Q2-00014

Agreement Type:

Contribution

Report Type:

Grants and Contributions

Recipient Type:

Not-for-profit organization or charity

Recipient's Legal Name:

Elizabeth Fry Toronto

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.