DECHINTA INITIATIVES: federal grants and contributions

P062550

• Indigenous Services Canada
• CIRNAC - Northern Affairs

A001856

• Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada
• Education

Through this 29-month project, Dechinta Initiatives will increase its ability to prevent and address gender-based violence (GBV) against Indigenous women, girls, or 2SLGBTQQIA+ people in the Northwest Territories. This will be achieved by developing a decision-making model with a GBA+ lens and reflective of Indigenous laws and governance models, reforming HR policies and practices, enhancing staff training and skill development, and implementing an organizational evaluation focused on community impact. By the end of the project, Dechinta Initiatives will have strengthened their capacity to pr

• Women and Gender Equality Canada
• Equality for Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression Program

Dechinta Initiatives will research and develop a "cooperative economy" course which would then move to a phase 2 of piloting the first cohort

• Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency
• Community Readiness Opportunities Planning
• Northwest Territories

Indigenous Languages and Cultures Program

• Canadian Heritage
• Indigenous Languages and Cultures Program - Indigenous Languages and Cultures

This 58-month project will address the organization's capacity needs to allow the organization to continue delivering Indigenous-led programming in northern communities in order to promote social and systemic change towards gender equality. Organizational capacity will be enhanced through the review of board governance and policies, development of a comprehensive communications plan and an advocacy strategy that reduces barriers faced by Indigenous women in accessing post-secondary opportunities. Supplemental funds will be used to develop and implement a sustainability plan that diversifies t

• Women and Gender Equality Canada
• Women's Program

• CIRNAC - Northern Affairs

All grants from Indigenous Services Canada

• Equality for Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression Program
• Women's Program

All grants from Women and Gender Equality Canada

• Education

All grants from Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada

• Community Readiness Opportunities Planning

All grants from Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency

• Indigenous Languages and Cultures Program - Indigenous Languages and Cultures

All grants from Canadian Heritage

• Community Readiness Opportunities Planning

• Equality for Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression Program

• Indigenous Languages and Cultures Program - Indigenous Languages and Cultures

• CIRNAC - Northern Affairs
• Women's Program

• Education