SWC Call for Concept Notes: Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Program in Canada

Deadline: 1 March 2018

Status of Women Canada has launched a call for concepts for projects to address gender-based violence (GBV) in Canada. This call for concepts supports the second pillar, namely to develop promising practices to support survivors and their families. Through the GBV Program, SWC will strengthen the GBV sector to address gaps in supports for two groups of survivors:

Indigenous women and their communities, and
Underserved populations, such as those who are more at risk of GBV and/or who are facing barriers to accessing services. These include, but are not limited to: children and youth, ethno-cultural women, LGBTQ2 communities and gender-non-binary people, non-status/refugee/immigrant women, seniors, women living in an official language minority community, women living in northern, rural and remote communities, and women living with a disability.

The project concept must include:

Identify the specific population(s) your organization will be working with;
Outline the support gap(s) the promising practice will address;
Describe the promising practice and your approach;
A brief description of how your organization will use pre-operational funding (up to $30,000) to develop a full proposal, should your organization be invited to do so; and
Outline the estimated overall costs associated with the implementation and evaluation of the promising practice (up to $1,000,000) as per the concept application form.

Grant Information

SWC will review all concepts submitted. Those that meet the assessment criteria will be invited to develop and submit a full proposal, for which pre-operational funding (up to $30,000 will be available). All full proposals will be assessed, and approved projects will be eligible to receive up to $1,000,000 in project funding.

Eligibility Criteria

Organizations should have experience working on gender-based violence issues and should be able to demonstrate their commitment to gender equality, whether through their mandate or through experience.
SWC is also open to working with new and non-traditional partners through this call for concepts.
SWC is looking for organizations who are interested in testing new ways of working in order to better support survivors of violence and also looking for organizations who are committed to measuring results throughout the project and who have an interest in collaborating with researchers and evaluators.
Eligible recipients include legally constituted organizations that are:
- Not-for-profit Canadian organizations;
- Indigenous governments (including band councils, tribal councils and self-government entities) and their agencies;
- Provinces, territories, municipalities and their agencies;
- Educational institutions (i.e. universities, colleges, CÉGEPs, secondary schools, school boards / school districts);
- Public health institutions, hospitals, healthcare service providers;
- Research organizations and institutes, centres of expertise;
- For-profit Canadian organizations, if the nature of the funded activity is not intended to generate a profit;
- Labour groups and unions.