Deadline: 30-Sep-21
The Government of Canada has announced the applications for Indigenous-Led Data Research Projects Program to improving data methodologies specific to missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people.
The Indigenous-Led Data Research Projects Program funds innovative Indigenous-led approaches to improving data methodologies specific to missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people, including initiatives that work to develop quantitative and qualitative indicators, including those that may be distinction- or identity-based, that address existing methodological gaps for groups who are underserviced or underrepresented in data, and that work to define safety through Indigenous ways of understanding.
All of these will ultimately work to improve existing data and expand data related to missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people.
The Indigenous-Led Data Research Projects Program funds innovative Indigenous-led approaches to improving data methodologies specific to missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people, including initiatives that:
- work to develop qualitative distinctions or identity-based indicators
- address existing methodological gaps for groups who are underserviced or underrepresented in data
- work to define safety through Indigenous ways of understanding
Funding Information
- Selected eligible projects may be approved up to a maximum of $50,000 annually.
Eligible projects
- To be considered eligible, funding submissions should contain one or more of the following:
- A clear link to missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people, including either a link to innovative methodologies to better understand the scope of the issue or to understand prevention, or else a link to those underserviced or underrepresented in current data
- Objectives that seek to determine ways to better define or measure what safety means to Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people, particularly in distinctions or identity-based terms
- A focus on data tools and/or methodologies: the processes of collecting Indigenous data, rather than the collection of data itself, using either quantitative, qualitative or mixed methodological approaches to chart a path toward more reliable data
- Examples of eligible projects are, but are not limited to:
- better understanding prevention-based indicators for the safety of Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people
- development of distinctions-based or identity-based quantitative and qualitative indicators
- identification of new or innovative methodologies for collecting and analyzing data, and their link to underserviced or underrepresented data constituencies
Eligibility Criteria
- Indigenous organizations, such as but not limited to:
- Indigenous women’s and Indigenous 2SLGBTQQIA+ organizations
- urban or off-reserve Indigenous organizations
- Métis and non-status Indigenous organizations
- Indigenous service providers
- Indigenous political or representative organizations
- First Nation communities, organizations and governments
- Tribal Councils
- Indigenous researchers affiliated with one of the entities.
For more information, visit https://www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/1628687298289/1628687319531