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- Panos Institute
- http://www.panoscanada.ca/
Panos Canada is part of the global Panos Network: eight autonomous institutes in Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe. The Network has a strong focus on the economically and socially disadvantaged.
Individual Panos institutes have programmes on children & youth, climate, energy, environment & natural resources, food security, gender, globalisation, health, HIV-AIDS, human security, ICTs, migration, media pluralism, and pastoralism.
(See Details)- UNIFEM - United Nations Development Fund for Women
- http://www.unifem.undp.org
UNIFEM promotes women's empowerment and gender equality on a global level; works to ensure participation of women in all levels of development planning and practice, and acts as a catalyst within the UN system, supporting efforts that link the needs and concerns of women to all critical issues on the national, regional and global agendas; focuses its work at country level within context of the UN Resident Coordinating System. Playing a strong advocacy role, the Fund concentrates on fostering a multilateral policy dialogue on women's empowerment.
(See Details)- Manitoba Status of Women
- http://www.gov.mb.ca/msw/
Promotes gender equality and the equal participation of all women in society. Works towards improving the economic, legal, social and health status of women. Contributes to ending exploitation and violence against women.
(See Details)- IGWG
- http://www.igwg.org/
- Forms a network comprising non-governmental organizations, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), cooperating agencies, and the Bureau for Global Health of USAID. Raises awareness and commmitment to synergies between gender equity and reproductive health/HIV outcomes. Collects empirical data and identifies best practices on gender issues and the interface with reproductive health/HIV. Develops operational tools for the integration of gender approaches into population, health and nutrition programming. Maintains a listserv. (See Details)
- Institute for Critical Studies in Gender and Health
- http://www.sfu.ca/~icsgh/
- Forms a research community working to bridge and integrate health, social sciences, humanities, and the natural sciences; to use an intersectional anaylsis to better understand how gender relates with other axes of discrimination and disadvantage; and to make connection between different "contexts" in which health is experienced-from the local to the international. (See Details)
- Commonwealth Secretariat
- http://www.thecommonwealth.org/index.asp
The Commonwealth Secretariat is the principal inter-governmental organisation of the Commonwealth, implementing the decisions taken by its 54 member governments.
(See Details)- Women's Research Centre
Community-based non-profit feminist organization. Focus on action research on women's issues, making women's experience visible. We also assist groups in developing their own projects- consultation. In addition, we do workshops and consultations for women's groups, community-based organizations and government departments. The Centre is a non-profit, charitable organization.
- International Gender and Trade Network
- http://www.igtn.org/
- Works to identify trade's impact on women and a women's agenda relative to trade and investment that will foster greater economic justice and security for women, families and communities globally. (See Details)
- Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport and Physical Activity
- http://www.caaws.ca
- Works in partnership with Sport Canada and with Canada's sport and active living communities to encourage girls and women of all ages to participate in sports and achieve gender equity in the sport community. (See Details)
- Center for the Study of Women in Society
- http://csws.uoregon.edu/
- Generates, supports and disseminates research on gender and on all aspects of women's lives. (See Details)
