Deadline: 30-Jun-21
The Employment and Social Development Canada is inviting proposals for the Women’s Employment Readiness (WER) Pilot Program to provide and test pre-employment and skills development supports for women. Projects will also include working with employers to reduce barriers to employing women.
Objectives
They will fund organizations that will:
- test pre-employment and skills development supports. These supports include foundational and transferable skills training (including literacy and essential skills or the Skills for Success Model) and wrap-around supports. Projects serve 1 or more of the 4 identified target groups.
- racialized women and/or Indigenous women
- women with disabilities
- women from the LGBTQ2 community
- women with prolonged detachment from the labour force
- test models to improve workplace inclusivity, where an employer is included in the project. For 1 or more of the target groups, projects would work with employers to improve:
- access to employment, or
- retention in the workplace
Funding Information
Eligible organizations can apply for funding up to $2.5M per project, per year. All projects must end by March 31, 2023.
Eligible Projects
Your project must meet all of the following criteria:
- run no longer than 64 weeks
- end by March 31, 2023
- be national in scope (that is serve participants in 2 or more provinces/territories) or regional in scope if serving participants located in Official Language Minority Communities
- test and provide foundational and transferable skills training models (including literacy and essential skills or the Skills for Success Model) and wrap-around supports to target groups:
- racialized women and/or Indigenous women
- women with disabilities
- LGBTQ2 women, or
- Women with prolonged detachment from the labour force
- if an employer will be part of the project, the project must also test methods to improve workplace inclusivity for at least 1 of the target groups to improve their:
- access to employment, and/or
- retention in the workplace
Eligibility Criteria
Your organization must be 1 of the following:
- not-for-profit organization
- for-profit organization given that the nature and intent of the activity is non-commercial, not intended to generate profit, and supports program priorities and objectives
- municipal government
- Indigenous organization including:
- band council
- tribal council
- self-government entity
- provincial and territorial government, institution, agency or Crown Corporation
For more information, visit Employment and Social Development Canada.
