Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

Published purpose

This 30-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives will achieve this by building relationships between equality seeking organizations and other stakeholders to collaborate across sectors to advance gender equality. CCPA will design and implement policies and practices to increase women’s labour market participation and opportunities. 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 to support women’s equality. This project, Mission Critical, aims to create a Women’s Jobs Recovery Dashboard, conduct case studies that provide rich, detailed information about the experiences of marginalized women in hard-hit sectors, and provide evidence-based policy proposals to ensure that those most impacted by the pandemic are a key part of Canada’s post-pandemic job recovery. To implement Mission Critical, 4 offices of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives will collaborate with 8 community partners and DAWN Canada to examine the labour market experiences of marginalized female workers in hard-hit industrial sectors and the care economy, while conducting comparative policy research, and identifying and disseminating policy and program alternatives for advancing women economic security in the post-pandemic economy. The project will house and disseminate its findings through a new, user-friendly gender budgeting portal. The peer-reviewed research findings will be published by the CCPA and disseminated through mainstream and social media channels, drawing on the expertise of the CCPA communications strategists. The project will also create user friendly communications tools to center marginalized working women’s voices and to provide all project partners with practical resources for advancing policy solutions and systemic change at all levels.