Grants and Contributions:

Creating supportive structures that address GBV, enhance intersectional allyship among men, and uplift BIPOC women

GV21495

$298,970.00

Oct 1, 2021 - Mar 31, 2024

This 30-month project will develop and implement partnerships and collaborative networks, thereby advancing gender equity and recovery from COVID-19 impacts and preexisting systems of oppression, to address the root causes of gender-based violence. Moyo Health & Community Services will achieve this by fostering intergenerational safer spaces accessible to BIPOC women in acquiring leadership and community-building skills, addressing the role of toxic masculinity, supporting men in becoming allies to women and 2SLGBTQ+ persons, enhancing intersectional allyship, and co-designing and implementing education and best practice tools that promote gender equity, healthy masculinity, and equitable access to resources and opportunities. Peers with intersecting lived experiences will inform and engage throughout the course of the project. Learnings will be shared through knowledge translation activities with wider networks. At the end of the project, the organization will have developed a promising practice that has changed norms and attitudes to prevent gender-based violence, supported positive resource distribution, advanced inclusive policies and practices, and developed networks and collaborations. Impact measurement will be supported by a third-party evaluator and informed by similar evaluation work conducted by key project partners, East Mississauga Community Health Centre (EMCHC) and Punjabi Community Health Services (PCHS) who will work collaboratively to co-design consultations with the community, implement services, and meet deliverables.

Women and Gender Equality Canada

Promising practices are incorporated by the GBV sector into new or enhanced supports for target populations.

Brampton, Ontario, CA L6Y 4M3

001-2021-2022-Q2-00028

Contribution

Grants and Contributions

Not-for-profit organization or charity

Moyo Health & Community Services

Gender-Based Violence Program

The purpose of the GBV Program is to strengthen the GBV sector to address gaps in supports for two groups of survivors: 1) Indigenous women and their communities, and 2) underserved populations (including women living with a disability, non-status/refugee /immigrant women, LGBTQ2S, gender non-conforming people and ethno-cultural women) in Canada. The Program provides grant and contribution funding to Canadian organizations to improve supports to help create long-term, comprehensive solutions at the national, regional, and local levels.