Grants and Contributions:

Accessing Financing for Women Entrepreneurs: Changing Policy for Equitable Access

NA21849

$528,440.00

Nov 5, 2021 - Mar 31, 2023

This 17-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Women’s Enterprise Organizations of Canada will achieve this by researching and analyzing the systemic barriers that prevent women entrepreneurs from accessing business growth capital and to use that knowledge to advocate for systemic change in lending policies. Lenders across Canada will be encouraged to use the educational tools and resources developed as part of the project to enhance understanding of the diverse needs of women entrepreneurs and implement changes within their institutions to overcome existing bias. At the end of the project, Women’s Enterprise Organizations of Canada will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by advancing inclusive policies and practices, encouraging more equitable and effective sharing of resources, supporting positive distribution of authority, voices, and decision-making power, and addressing persistent harmful gender norms and attitudes to support women’s equality.

Women and Gender Equality Canada

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

Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA R3B 0V3

001-2021-2022-Q3-00093

Contribution

Grants and Contributions

Not-for-profit organization or charity

Women's Enterprise Organizations of Canada

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.