Community Innovative Alliances Incorporated

Published purpose

This 27-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19 through systemic change. Community Innovative Alliances Incorporated will achieve this by: (1) setting up focus groups and collecting surveys to identify and raise awareness of the socio-economic impact of Covid 19 on ethnic women, namely around food insecurity, housing and employment; (2) setting up an advisory Committee to discuss the recommendations from the surveys; 3) Engaging with 5 key partners on the main findings and proposing solutions on gender inequalities amongst African descendants and building and strengthening partnerships; and (4) building and maintaining collaborative work between equality seeking organizations and other stakeholders across sectors to advance gender equality. At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by advancing inclusive policies and practices, encouraging more effective and equitable sharing of resources, supporting positive distribution of authority, voices, and decision-making power, increasing networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change, persistent and harmful gender norms, and attitudes to support women’s equality.