Grants and Contributions:

Ensuring a Young Feminist Recovery

NA21326

$526,847.00

Nov 15, 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. Fora: Network for Change will achieve this by designing and implementing policies and practices to increase women’s labour market participation and opportunities; engaging women and/or girls with lived experience to influence pandemic recovery responses; and designing and implementing policies and practices to increase women’s leadership in democratic, civic, public or private sectors. 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. This project seeks to fight for a COVID-19 recovery that prioritizes girls’ and women’s full participation in the labour force, by placing young women with lived experiences of the pandemic in decision-making spaces across Canada. Task forces in the private sector, philanthropic, and public sectors will be included, and, as part of tracking participation in recovery committees and task forces across sectors, Fora will produce a first of its kind semi-annual tracker of recovery committees and task forces ("decision-making bodies"), and report on the number of younger women included on these bodies across Canada. The additional funds will be used to improve communication materials and strengthen advocacy activities, including an advocacy webpage and an advocacy event.

Women and Gender Equality Canada

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

Toronto, Ontario, CA M5T 2C2

001-2021-2022-Q3-00075

Grant

Grants and Contributions

Not-for-profit organization or charity

Increase of agreement value

Dec 7, 2023

Fora: Network for Change

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.