Grants and Contributions:

Kafa: A Community-Based Research Project Looking Into Gender-Based Violence in Canada’s Fastest Growing Immigrant Community

GV230357

$520,311.00

Feb 23, 2024 - Mar 31, 2027

Through this 37-month project, the Canadian Arab Institute (CAI) will conduct a community-driven and collaborative research project to help improve access to GBV prevention and intervention services for women within Canada’s fastest growing immigrant group, the Canadian-Arab community. The project will fill the knowledge gaps about their needs and lived experiences and the systemic prevalence and manifestations of GBV within the community. It will also assess the relationship between service providers and survivors through existing prevention, mitigation, intervention, and support mechanisms used and determine preferred approaches and adaptations needed for at-risk women and survivors, taking into account intersectional factors. At the end of the project, events will be hosted and knowledge products will be developed to disseminate the research results within the community and the GBV sector. With the Supplemental funds and extension provided in early 2026, the Canadian Arab Institute will leverage the research and network produced so far to convene an advisory committee of service providers, GBV survivors, and researchers to develop practical toolkits, referral pathways, and organizational guidelines for GBV service providers working with Arab communities. The project will also apply qualitative research methodologies to pilot the content in different communities across Canada and disseminate the findings to advocate for wider adoption of culturally responsive, trauma-informed, and effective GBV interventions for the Arab Canadian community and other intersectional communities. Through this, they will further advance Gender Equality.

Women and Gender Equality Canada

Promising practices are incorporated by the GBV sector into new or enhanced supports for target populations.

Toronto, Ontario, CA M5C 1X6

001-2023-2024-Q4-00022

Contribution

Grants and Contributions

Not-for-profit organization or charity

Increase of agreement value, Change of end date

Apr 7, 2026

Canadian Arab Institute / Institut Canado-Arabe

Gender-Based Violence Program

The purpose of the GBV Program is to strengthen the GBV sector to address gaps in supports for two groups of survivors: 1) Indigenous women and their communities, and 2) underserved populations (including women living with a disability, non-status/refugee /immigrant women, LGBTQ2S, gender non-conforming people and ethno-cultural women) in Canada. The Program provides grant and contribution funding to Canadian organizations to improve supports to help create long-term, comprehensive solutions at the national, regional, and local levels.