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  "retrieved": "2026-10-16T12:45:55Z",
  "source": "Assay Systems register, https://assay-systems.com/register/",
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    "name": "Les Femmes Michif Otipemisiwak: federal grants and contributions",
    "url": "https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/r/les-femmes-michif-otipemisiwak/",
    "summary": "18 federal grant and contribution agreements worth $7.5M with Les Femmes Michif Otipemisiwak, 2019–2026.",
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    "text": [
      "Through this 60-month project , Les Femmes Michif Otipemisiwak will increase its ability to prevent or address gender-based violence against Indigenous women, girls, or 2SLGBTQQIA+ people. This will be achieved by the development of a Metis 2SLGBTQQIA+ National Action Plan, with representation from across the Metis Nation Motherland. This National Action Plan will be achieved by the creation of a Metis 2SLGBTQQIA+ National Advisory Committee to oversee the project development, implementation, and evaluation stages. The committee will identify and fill existing gaps relating to the experiences",
      "Mothers of the Land, Water and Skies: Climate Change Impacts on Métis Women and 2SLGBTQQIA Folks",
      "This 30-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Les Femmes Michif Otipemisiwak/ Women of the Métis Nation will achieve this by building relationships between equality seeking organizations and other stakeholders to collaborate across sectors to advance gender equality. LFMO will develop and implement community-based approaches to address intersectional barriers to equality for diverse women, while enhancing reconciliation and distinction-based approaches for Indigenous women and/or girls’ safety, economic secur",
      "Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)",
      "Through this 49-month project, Les Femmes Michif Otipemisiwak (LFMO) will contribute to the empowerment of Métis women by creating leadership resources and fostering networks necessary to enhance their leadership capabilities. The development of the Empowering Métis Women in Leadership Curriculum and resources, will address topics through an approach centered on the Métis Holistic Lifelong Learning Model that can begin the process of decolonizing leadership by exploring strengths and weaknesses, including how colonial education systems continue to influence individuals, families, and communit",
      "This 20-month project will honour the lives and legacies of missing and murdered Indigenous women, and girls and LGBTQ2S individuals and increase awareness about missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls and LGBTQ2S individuals. Project activities will include: create an educational toolkit to help end gender-based violence and other root causes of MMIWG in Métis communities. The toolkit will provide artwork, stories, and the strengths of Métis women as well as to deliver tools to organize a ceremony to honour Métis women in local communities across the homeland.",
      "To support the federal government’s commitment to maintain a strong and effective publicly funded health care system through investments in emerging and demonstrated innovations in priority areas, such as palliative and end-of-life care, home and community care, mental health care and other federal, provincial-territorial and emerging priorities.",
      "This 44-month project would create space for dialogue and engagement on gender equality with Métis youth through the development of communications and outreach strategies, video networking, and opportunities for select participants from across the Homeland (British Colombia to Ontario) to present their views on the issue to the larger membership of Les Femmes Michif Otimpemisiwak. The capacity and confidence of youth to lead on and advocate for gender equality in their communities will also be built through training and a mentorship program.",
      "Through this 24-month project, Les Femmes Michif Otipemisiwak (LFMO) will uplift Metis youth into positions of leadership and advocacy both nationally and within their communities. Metis youth will have opportunities within LFMO to provide their unique perspectives on all policy files within the organization. To achieve this, LFMO will undertake several mixed method engagement approaches to ensure a wide-reaching and accessible outreach methodology. Building upon the data collected during LFMO's initial Metis-youth engagement project with WAGE, the project will focus on increasing opportunitie",
      "To address systemic racism and discrimination in Canada’s health systems by striving to ensure high quality health services are efficient and accessible, and by reducing health inequalities.",
      "This 6-month project will help LFMO to develop a fulsome leadership engagement strategy. LFMO will conduct research to identify what leadership opportunities currently exist for Métis women and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people. In addition, LFMO will be examining the relationship and connection between Métis women’s leadership and gender-based violence prevention. Research will include assessing these existing data sources and developing a needs assessment and resulting gap analysis through an environmental scan of which supports are needed to increase leadership opportunities for Métis women and 2SLGBTQQIA",
      "Engagement of Les Femmes Michif Otipemisiwak on the Modernization of the Canada Water Act and Other National Freshwater Initiatives: Leadership in Water Governance",
      "To address systemic racism and discrimination in Canada’s health systems by striving to ensure high quality health services are efficient and accessible, and by reducing health inequalities.",
      "Celebration, Commemoration and Learning",
      "Supporting Capacity of National Indigenous Organizations to Engage in Conservation",
      "Pre-Engagement on the Canada Water Act",
      "Engagement of Les Femmes Michif Otipemisiwak in advancing freshwater science priorities"
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        "url": "https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/"
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      {
        "name": "Public Health Agency of Canada",
        "url": "https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/department/public-health-agency-of-canada/"
      },
      {
        "name": "Women and Gender Equality Canada",
        "url": "https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/department/women-and-gender-equality-canada/"
      },
      {
        "name": "Environment and Climate Change Canada",
        "url": "https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/department/environment-and-climate-change-canada/"
      },
      {
        "name": "Health Canada",
        "url": "https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/department/health-canada/"
      },
      {
        "name": "Canada Water Agency",
        "url": "https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/department/canada-water-agency/"
      },
      {
        "name": "Canadian Heritage",
        "url": "https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/department/canadian-heritage/"
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    "assay_record": "ASY-CA-0DWAKMP0QV",
    "cite_as": "Assay Systems, \"Les Femmes Michif Otipemisiwak: federal grants and contributions\", https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/r/les-femmes-michif-otipemisiwak/"
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