Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women Canada

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Through this 42-month project, the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW) Canada will conduct research that will improve GBV services for Indigenous, Black, racialized, non-status, and temporary status women, who work in precarious, informal, non-standard labour sectors. Through community-based research with GBV service providers and women who access their services in the Yukon, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, the project will determine the benefits and limitations of using an anti-trafficking framework to understand and address GBV experienced by marginalized, racialized women who work in under-examined informal, precarious, non-standard labour sectors. GAATW Canada will use its national voice to share the research findings among key stakeholders to effect change at legislative, policy, and practice levels and will share information with Women and Gender Equality Canada’s GBV Knowledge Centre. Supplemental funding will enhance the project’s knowledge mobilization activities including creating online resources, disseminating findings at events, and hosting follow-up community conversations. With the supplemental funds and extension provided in early 2026, the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women Canada will implement a structured knowledge mobilization and stakeholder engagement plan, building on the ‘Is it trafficking?’ research findings. This plan will include strategic stakeholder engagement; establishment of a Survivor Advisory Committee; development of thematic policy briefs and organizational position statements; and the design and delivery of a webinar series. Through this, they will further advance gender equality.