Systems Change – CCWESTT

A Guide to Building Feminist Intersectional Solidarity This guide is geared toward helping feminists and feminist organizations build relationships and foster meaningful collaboration. This resource was shaped by discussions CRIAW-ICREF held with 34 women’s organizations across the country on what Feminist Intersectional Solidarity looks like in practice. Firmly based in a feminist intersectional framework, the […]

A Researcher’s Guide to Municipal Advocacy

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A Researcher’s Guide to Municipal Advocacy Tools and Tactics for Engaging Local Governments with Science This toolkit serves as a practical roadmap for researchers to engage effectively with local governments and influence community-level decision-making. It highlights that while municipalities manage critical infrastructure and services—such as transit, housing, and climate adaptation—they often lack the formal scientific […]

Forum Learning to Lead: The Power of Systems Change

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Forum Learning to Lead: The Power of Systems Change This report summarizes the findings and strategic frameworks from a hosted forum focused on advancing gender equity in Science, Engineering, Trades, and Technology (SETT). The document advocates for a shift from individual interventions to “systems change,” emphasizing that true progress requires dismantling structural biases rather than […]

CCWESTT Systemic Change Project Theory of Change

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CCWESTT Systemic Change Project Theory of Change CCWESTT systemic change projects are designed using a theory of change for scaling out, up, and deep. Credit: CCWESTT Systemic Project Team Date: 2024 View

Forum Learning to Act: The Power of Systems Change

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Forum Learning to Act: The Power of Systems Change The CCWESTT 2025 Learning to Act Forum, held in Montréal October 29-20th, 2025, gathered leaders across Canada’s Science, Engineering, Trades, and Technology sectors to advance gender equity through systemic change.Day 1 launched the Gender Equality Report Card, highlighting persistent regional gaps and actionable policy insights.Day 2 […]

Evaluating Advocacy for Developing, Adopting and Implementing Public Policy – A Collection of Resources

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Evaluating Advocacy for Developing, Adopting and Implementing Public Policy – A Collection of Resources The processes by which public policy gets made, and the hard realities it faces in getting implemented, are complex and dynamic. That means effective policy advocacy is always context dependent. What works in one instance, or for one part of the […]

The Art of Scaling Deep Research in Summary

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The Art of Scaling Deep – Research in Summary A summary from 15 years of working on the topic of Scaling Deep in systems change. Credit:Tatiana Fraser,The Systems Sanctuary Date: 2023 For more information on this resource click here. View

The Power of Coalitions

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The Power of Coalitions Reflecting on this year’s Gender Equality Week theme, “United for Gender Equality: Stronger Together”, we recognize and celebrate the power of coalitions in our work. We know we are stronger when we work together to advance gender equality – combining the work of organizations, activists, service providers, researchers, educators, and more. […]

Feminist Law Reform Manual

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Feminist Law Reform Manual A new educational resource designed to empower you in advocating for women’s rights in Canada! This practical guide is packed with the knowledge and tools you need to push for laws that advance substantive equality for women. Credit: National Association of Women and the Law (NAWL) Date: 2024 For more information […]

The Burden of Care: Addressing Challenges in Employment in the Nonprofit Sector

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The Burden of Care: Addressing Challenges in Employment in the Nonprofit Sector This new report examines the perceptions of workers in the nonprofit sector in comparison to workers in other sectors. Workers in the nonprofit sector have lower job satisfaction than workers in either the public or private sectors. Nonprofit sector jobs are also quite […]