Northwestern Ontario Women's Centre

Published purpose

This 59-month project will address organizational capacity needs to allow Northwestern Ontario Women's Centre to continue promoting social and systemic change towards gender equality. Organizational capacity will be enhanced through partnerships with local women's advocates in the development of a collaborative advocacy strategy on gender-based violence that is informed by anti-racism, anti-oppression, trauma-informed and gender-based analysis frameworks. This advocacy strategy includes connecting with existing broader campaigns and efforts, the creation of an online platform and communication network, the analysis and publication of legal system outcomes through this network, and the establishment of an annual ""Think Tank"" for local women's advocates. The 2023 supplementary funds will be used to develop a standardized program evaluation protocol, build and retain diverse board and staff through a recruitment protocol, develop an organizational plan focussing on pension and benefit development, design a standardized annual budget development process to complement and operationalize the new strategic plan and increase capacity for standardized GBA Court Observation through data management.