Grants and Contributions:

Building Inclusive Recreation and Sport Communities for Women and Girls

NA21156

$660,824.00

Jan 5, 2022 - Mar 31, 2024

This 27 months project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Canadian Parks and Recreation Association (CPRA) will achieve this by scaling up its current training by delivering webinars in four critical areas to community base professionals and practitioners, by building an online community of practice, implementing initiatives, as well as designing and hosting an interactive toolkit. Supplement for activities includes two additional in-person workshops, targeted follow-up sessions with up to ten organizations and/or communities that are in the process of addressing gender equity practices, enhanced modules on safe sport and intersectionality, and storytelling to strive for gender-equitable programming and facilities. At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by advancing inclusive policies and practices and increasing networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change. CPRA will support positive distribution of authority, voices, and decision-making power, while addressing persistent harmful gender norms and attitudes to support women’s equality. CPRA indicated systemic gender inequities and harmful sector norms which preclude girls and women from participating in physical activity. These barriers can be entrenched in the physical spaces and places that recreation and sport take place, and in the norms and attitudes that exist in these places and spaces. To address these, CPRA proposes a feminist recovery response to build community capacity, in applying a gender lens to recreation, sport places and spaces by providing both knowledge dissemination and mentorship amongst the sector. CPRA will work with several partners, as well as their 13 members from the parks and recreation associations across the country, to enhance leadership opportunities for women and girls.

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 K1V 2M5

001-2021-2022-Q4-00015

Contribution

Grants and Contributions

Not-for-profit organization or charity

Increase of agreement value

Oct 3, 2023

Canadian Parks and Recreation Association

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.