Grants and Contributions:

New Approaches to Economic Recovery

BC21477

$300,000.00

Nov 1, 2021 - Mar 31, 2024

This 29-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Mid-Island Métis Nation Association will achieve this by convening a committee of women with lived experience of financial hardship to identify strategies that support economic interdependence amongst Indigenous, racialized and newcomer communities, engaging stakeholders to inform the areas of greatest need and incorporate collective models, and creating a framework for an anti-poverty strategy. At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by encouraging more equitable and effective sharing of resources, increasing networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change, and by supporting positive distribution of authority, voices, and decision-making power. Key partners in the project, Nanaimo Aboriginal Centre, Society for Equity Inclusion and Advocacy, Central Vancouver Island Multicultural Society, and Nanaimo Foodshare Society will be instrumental throughout the project and will support implementing at least three framework initiatives to lift women and children out of poverty.

Women and Gender Equality Canada

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

Nanaimo, British Columbia, CA V9S 4M9

001-2021-2022-Q3-00027

Contribution

Grants and Contributions

Aboriginal recipient

Mid Island Metis Nation Association

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.