Grants and Contributions:

Building an Inclusive Feminist Recovery Agenda

AB21848

$279,191.00

Oct 1, 2021 - Mar 31, 2024

This 30-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Women’s Centre of Calgary will achieve this by convening caucuses of diverse women, including Black, Indigenous, racialized, and migrant women, to collectively identify the key gender equality issues they face as a result of the pandemic, such as barriers to their economic security and leadership; performing evidence-based and anecdotal reviews of the disproportionate impacts of the pandemic and intersectional gender gaps within existing recovery plans; developing an inclusivity toolkit and an inclusive feminist recovery agenda that is community-informed and incorporates the input of diverse women with lived experiences; and convening ongoing meetings and consultations with key stakeholders to mobilize support across sectors for the agenda’s systemic change solutions. At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by advancing inclusive policies and practices, increasing networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change, and supporting positive distribution of authority, voices, and decision-making power to support women’s equality. Through this project, marginalized women’s groups, particularly BIPOC women and women involved in migrant and care work, will be given opportunities to lead the development of a toolkit and recovery plan that contains key recommendations for removing systemic barriers and advancing equality. Women’s Centre of Calgary will leverage existing relationships with their Social Policy Collaborative partners and will build networks with other equity-seeking groups and officials to advance the recommendations towards a recovery from the impacts of COVID-19. The project’s impact will be documented through an evaluation.

Women and Gender Equality Canada

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

Calgary, Alberta, CA T2E 3R6

001-2021-2022-Q3-00014

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Grants and Contributions

Not-for-profit organization or charity

Women's Centre of Calgary

Women's Program

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.