Grants and Contributions:

Overcoming Systemic Financial Barriers faced by Survivors and Victims of Family Violence

NA21139

$632,428.00

Nov 29, 2021 - Mar 31, 2024

This 29-month project will support a feminist response and recovery to address the current impacts of COVID-19 through systemic change. It will address economic abuse and injustice through advancing advocacy and responding to policy changes, which aligns well with the feminist response and recovery. By the end of the project, the organization will develop and validate the Economic Abuse Screening Tool from the UK, which is proven to overcome and eliminate systemic barriers for survivors. The existing members of the National Economic Abuse Taskforce at the Canadian Centre for Women’s Empowerment (CCFWE), who are dedicated to improving the economic prosperity and safety of women, will utilize their expertise to adapt and validate this screening tool. The tool will help service providers and policymakers identify whether their clients are experiencing this form of abuse and how to address it. The organization is partnering with universities, non-profit organizations, and shelters to use their expertise in order to adapt this tool for Canadian use. The project will also implement and evaluate the tool by collaborating with organizations that work to advance gender equity, intersectional feminism, and women’s rights to overcome economic barriers women face. The CCFWE will influence the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC) and the Canadian Bank Association to review the Advancing National Financial Abuse Code of Conduct and to develop a family violence program to protect survivors. The supplemental funds will be used to address an increased demand for support from project partners resulting in the hiring of part-time taskforce coordinators to manage the expanded workload.

Women and Gender Equality Canada

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

Ottawa, Ontario, CA K1J 3P8

001-2021-2022-Q4-00013

Contribution

Grants and Contributions

Not-for-profit organization or charity

Increase of agreement value

Mar 8, 2024

Canadian Center for Women's Empowerment (CCFWE)

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.