On November 1, 2017, the Government of Canada launched Canada’s National Action Plan for the Implementation of the United Nations Security Council Resolutions on Women, Peace and Security 2017-2022. It is our second action plan, building on the first plan that existed from 2011-2016. The visionViolent conflict affects women, girls, Read more…
A Feminist Approach Global Affairs Canada’s policy on Civil Society Partnerships for International Assistance (referred to as the Civil Society Partnerships Policy or the Policy) sets out the Department’s approach to enhancing effective cooperation with Canadian, international and local civil society organizations (CSOs) to maximize the impact and results of Canada’s international Read more…
“Nothing about us without us.” -G.J. Strangler and M. Shirk (2004). On Their Own: What Happens to Kids When They Age Out of the Foster Care System. Westview Press. p 260. Youth engagement is a process that offers meaningful participation and opportunities for youth to take responsibility and take leadership Read more…
Monitoring and evaluation are important across all public engagement activities. Monitoring is the process of tracking progress in the achievement of a program’s objectives. Evaluation is the systematic assessment of that progress,or lack thereof, in relation to goals. Investing in monitoring and evaluation is a crucial component in determining whether the desired social change Read more…
In order to be effective as public engagement practitioners, we need opportunities to reflect on our work and think about the underlying theories and assumptions on which we base our actions. The tools and resources that follow are designed to encourage practitioners to think about how change happens as a Read more…
Civil society organizations address some of the most complex social, economic and environmental issues of our time. In the same way that civil society organizations are created because people recognize that they must organize themselves with others to tackle these issues, collective efforts among organizations are also necessary in order Read more…
Policy is sometimes considered to be an umbrella term for guidelines, rules, regulations, laws, principles, framework, standards. But regardless of what you call it, policy guides our actions. It dictates what is done, how it’s done, and for whom (or to whom) it is done. The content of this section of Read more…
In a fast-changing and globalized reality, there are many who believe that education can, and should, help young people to meet the challenges they will confront now and in the future, and that educating for global citizenship is now more important and urgent than ever before. Upon reflection back over Read more…
