Grants and Contributions:

Indigenous Perspectives and Best Practices in Addressing Gender Based Violence

SO220009

$681,048.00

Oct 1, 2022 - Sep 30, 2025

Through this 36-month project, the Legacy of Hope Foundation will increase its ability to prevent or address gender-based violence against Indigenous women, girls, or 2SLGBTQQIA+ people. This will be achieved by creating a travelling exhibition and activity guide that will enable host organizations, communities, and governments across Canada (remote, rural, urban) to learn about Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and how to address it in their own environment. They will form a Project Advisory Committee comprised of Indigenous persons from various regions in Canada, that will guide the project and consultations with advocates for women’s rights, missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, as well as other injustices, that can provide their unique perspectives and solutions on GBV. The committee will identify participants for dialogue sessions during the development stage of the exhibition and the activity guide, and host engagement sessions that will give communities the opportunity to share knowledge, view the exhibition and pilot the activity guide. A website will be developed and maintained to help with promotion and accessibility of these educational resources to all communities across Canada. These project activities and engagement sessions will ensure that the exhibition and activity guide are addressing GBV through the collective lens of those who experience it at higher rates than any other population in Canada: Indigenous women and girls and the 2SLGBTQQIA+ community. At the end of this project, the organization will have created tools to raise awareness of GBV to communities across Canada and provide them with the resources to address it. With these tools, learners will also gain the knowledge required to help them educate others on the topic, as well as help them contribute towards the eradication of GBV. The expectation is that this exhibition will have a minimum lifespan of 8 years.

Women and Gender Equality Canada

Partnerships and collaborations are established and/or strengthened to support the LGBTQ2 movement LGBTQ2 organizations have increased knowledge and capacity to advance equality with respect to sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression.

Gloucester, Ontario, CA K2J 8M7

001-2022-2023-Q3-00030

Contribution

Grants and Contributions

Indigenous recipients

Legacy of Hope Foundation

Equality for Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression Program

The purpose of ESSOGIE program is to advance social, political and economic equality with respect to sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.

Advancement towards a greater understanding of the intersection of sex and gender with other identity factors that include race, national and ethnic origin, Indigenous origin or identity, age, sexual orientation, socio-economic condition, place of residence and disability are encouraged under the Program.