National Association of Friendship Centre l Association nationale des centres d'amitié

Published purpose

This 36-month project will address organizational capacity needs to allow the National Association of Friendship Centres and its members to continue promoting social and systemic change towards gender equality. A series of activities will be undertaken to build national, provincial/territorial and local capacity. This will include training and research to guide the creation of resource manuals that share best practices on leadership, board governance, Indigenous-specific gender-based analysis, partnership development, collaboration and networking. In particular, these activities will target the Indigenous women leaders that make up 70 per cent of friendship centres directors in Canada. They will also work to maintain supports through the development of an Urban Indigenous women’s leadership network.