Moyo Health & Community Services

Published purpose

This 30-month project will develop and implement partnerships and collaborative networks, thereby advancing gender equity and recovery from COVID-19 impacts and preexisting systems of oppression, to address the root causes of gender-based violence. Moyo Health & Community Services will achieve this by fostering intergenerational safer spaces accessible to BIPOC women in acquiring leadership and community-building skills, addressing the role of toxic masculinity, supporting men in becoming allies to women and 2SLGBTQ+ persons, enhancing intersectional allyship, and co-designing and implementing education and best practice tools that promote gender equity, healthy masculinity, and equitable access to resources and opportunities. Peers with intersecting lived experiences will inform and engage throughout the course of the project. Learnings will be shared through knowledge translation activities with wider networks. At the end of the project, the organization will have developed a promising practice that has changed norms and attitudes to prevent gender-based violence, supported positive resource distribution, advanced inclusive policies and practices, and developed networks and collaborations. Impact measurement will be supported by a third-party evaluator and informed by similar evaluation work conducted by key project partners, East Mississauga Community Health Centre (EMCHC) and Punjabi Community Health Services (PCHS) who will work collaboratively to co-design consultations with the community, implement services, and meet deliverables.