CCIC - Canadian Council for International Cooperation

Published purpose

This project supports the Canadian international development sector in strengthening its capacity to tackle systemic racism. This builds a foundation for the sector’s inclusive, human rights-based and intersectional feminist approaches to development work. Project activities include: (1) developing an e-platform to share information and resources with organizations; (2) delivering training and workshops targeting organizational change; (3) developing support materials, toolkits and templates; (4) creating a database of antiracism experts; (5) hosting and funding collaborative antiracism initiatives that are created by Black, Indigenous and racialized women and gender diverse people, and that reflect their lived experiences; and (6) establishing a dedicated coordination secretariat and resource centre for the sector. This will increase the integration of antiracism in Canadian organizations’ program design, implementation and learning, as well as the adoption of antiracist principles amongst staff of Canadian organizations. When Canadian organizations adopt racially-sensitive and inclusive intersectional feminist assistance approaches to their work, it improves the delivery of Canadian international assistance to local populations.