Building a Childcare System that Works for Immigrant and Refugee Women

The Building a Childcare System that Works for Immigrant and Refugee Women project is a 2.5-year PIRS initiative funded by Women and Gender Equality Canada. It supports a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19 through systemic change in the childcare sector.

PIRS aims to:

• develop and implement community-based approaches to address intersectional barriers to equality for diverse women
• engage women and/or girls with lived experience to influence pandemic recovery responses
• convene and strengthen the feminist movement to collaboratively advance gender equality
• build relationships between equality seeking organizations and other stakeholders to collaborate across sectors to advance gender equality

This project builds on the work undertaken through the Learning Journeys initiative and the Immigrant Women Advisory Committee (IWAC). It is informed by principles of centering immigrant and refugee women’s voices, collaboration, co-design, and capacity building through all activities.

At the heart of the Building a Childcare System that Works for Immigrant and Refugee Women project is the Childcare Leadership Group, a community of practice that drives the work. Learn more and register for the Childcare Leadership Group (CLG).