Grants and Contributions:

Adapting public offices to increase women’s political participation in Canada

NA220080

$695,500.00

Jan 1, 2023 - Mar 31, 2025

This 27-month project will enable Equal Voice to advance women’s leadership and decision-making through systemic change in Canada’s legislations. Equal Voice will achieve this by encouraging women and girls in leadership and decision-making positions in formal political systems by creating and updating policies and procedures in Canada’s legislations using a GBA+ lens. Equal Voice will work to ensure that Canada’s legislatures emerge from the pandemic as more gender-sensitive institutions. The first part of this project will be to conduct research amongst elected officials, and legislative staff at all levels of government into the way their legislatures have been working remotely, and how some of these modifications can be permanently incorporated. For the second part of the project, Equal Voice will hold a series of virtual summits to convene elected officials to share learning, knowledge, to promote advocacy change, and to build a nationwide network for change. The third part of the project involves drafting relevant policies, presenting to Standing Committees in legislatures, to political caucuses, and working with the administration within legislatures. Simultaneously, this project will encourage women and girls in leadership and decision-making positions through a knowledge mobilization campaign (reports, blogs, media engagement); leveraging and celebrating the success of changes in legislatures to encourage more women to participate in formal political institutions. The overall success of the project will be measured by the creation of new and updated policies and procedures within legislations across Canada that reduce barriers to women’s participation

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 K1P 5G3

001-2022-2023-Q4-00015

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Grants and Contributions

For-profit organization

Equal Voice

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.