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Title:

Kaska Advocates Leadership Pilot Project

Agreement Number:

YT21440

Agreement Value:

$612,519.00

Agreement Date:

Oct 1, 2021 - Jul 31, 2023

Description:

This 22-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Liard Aboriginal Women’s Society (LAWS) will achieve this by recruiting and orienting advocates, collaboratively designing the Kaska Advocates leadership pilot, developing resources and protocol, increasing access to cultural services for victims, conducting a full cycle evaluation, facilitating peer supports for advocates, encouraging greater collaboration between organizations, and undertaking knowledge dissemination activities. At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by advancing inclusive policies and practices, encouraging more equitable and effective sharing of resources, increasing networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change, supporting positive distribution of authority, voices, and decision-making power, and addressing persistent harmful gender norms and attitudes. LAWS will collaborate with Lower Post, Daylu Dena Council and Help and Hope for Families and Safe Home to create a program model that provides work placement opportunities for four Indigenous women to act as agents of change within the existing system.

Organization:

Women and Gender Equality Canada

Expected Results:

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

Location:

Watson Lake, Yukon, CA Y0A 1C0

Reference Number:

001-2021-2022-Q3-00163

Agreement Type:

Contribution

Report Type:

Grants and Contributions

Recipient Type:

Indigenous recipients

Recipient's Legal Name:

Liard Aboriginal Women's Society (LAWS)

Program:

Women's Program

Program Purpose:

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.