A report sharing the knowledge generated at the BC regional gathering of the Together|Ensemble Conference, Canada’s national conference devoted to tracking progress on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. The report was produced for Canadian decision-makers in advance of planned high-level global Sustainable Development Goals gatherings at the UN Headquarters.
The call to transform the power balance in development cooperation is growing ever louder. But much of the practices, language, frameworks (e.g. RBM) and power of monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) is rooted in the global North, far away from communities that development cooperation and assistance seeks to ally with
Two Tanzanian activists working to advance Indigenous Peoples’ rights and priorities joined us to share details about their work, the issues faced by the Maasai communities they work with, and progress being made to address them.
Our International Development Week 2023 kick off event explored women’s lived realities and leadership in the intersecting areas of food security, gender equality, the climate crisis and peace in different regions of the world.
How have the climate crisis and food insecurity (the former significantly exacerbating the latter) affected gender equality
In partnership with Hope International Development Agency, BCCIC and VIDEA, this event will showcase women’s agency and leadership in localized solutions to climate change, environmental and disaster risk reduction in Canada, Haiti, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
COVID-19 has introduced unprecedented global challenges, and many solutions came at the cost of marginalized and vulnerable groups. Decades of advocacy and policy progress on gender equality and social justice were at risk of regressing, or in many cases, being lost altogether. However, there has also been opportunity. Our collective
BCCIC coordinated a delegation of 14 women for the 64th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW64) this March in New York City. The BCCIC CSW64 delegation and other BCCIC members worked collectively to write this report on gender empowerment, women’s equality, and the SDGs.
In light of
