This is the website for Networks for Change and Wellbeing: Girl-led ‘From the Ground Up’ Policy-making to Address Sexual Violence in Canada and South Africa. This website contains information about each of the project field sites in South Africa and Canada, the Working Groups that underpin the project, and a gallery exhibiting visual images borne from the project. You can find helpful resources relating to sexual violence and girlhood such as websites and toolkits, as well as resources for indigenous methodologies. You can also keep up to date with everything happening in the project through our newsletters.
More Than Words
More than Words (Studying the Impact of Arts-Based Survivor Engagement on Families and Communities) is a project studying the use of Indigenous-focused, youth-led, survivor engagement through the arts. This 4-year project (2019-2023) is continuing to work with most of Networks for Change sites in Canada. Funded by Women and Gender Equality Canada, this initiative focuses on the impacts of art/media making on the producers themselves (young people) and on their families and communities in relation to their experiences of sexual and gender-based violence.
Who We Are
Girl-led ‘from the ground up’ policy making to address sexual violence in Canada and South Africa is a six year, $2.4 million (CAD) research initiative funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the International Development Research Centre of Canada (IDRC) as part of their International Partnerships for Sustainable Societies (IPaSS) initiative. The project officially started on August 1, 2014.
Outputs
High quality research and knowledge mobilization are part of the purposes of N4C. The project has produced academic publications (journals, books, chapters, and conference presentations) and community mobilization tools such as toolkits, policy briefs, screenings, and performances.
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Networks for Change and Wellbeing works across a number of sites in South Africa and Canada, involving co-investigators, collaborators, partner organizations and research students, as well as Working Group and Steering Committee members. The project is coordinated jointly by teams in Canada and South Africa at McGill University and the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal.
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