Other Useful Links

Policy & Gender Based Analysis

Great Sites

Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women
www.criaw-icref.ca

Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action
www.fafia-afai.org

Status of Women Canada
www.swc-cfc.gc.ca

Canadian Women’s Foundation
www.canadianwomen.org

The Canadian CED Network (CCEDNET)
www.ccednet-rcdec.ca

Social and Enterprise Development Innovations (SEDI)
http://prospercanada.org/

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
www.policyalternatives.ca

Caledon Institute of Social Policy
www.caledoninst.org

Tamarack
www.tamarackcommunity.ca

Canadian Council on Social Development
www.ccsd.ca

Canadian Policy Research Networks
www.cprn.org

Le Groupe Femmes, Politique et Democratie
www.femmes-politique-et-democratie.com

Suggested Reading

Gendered Jobs’ and ‘Gendered Workers’: Barriers to Gender Equality in Gendered Organizations by Lindsay Payne (2002)
http://www.worklifecanada.ca

Gender: Challenging Attitudes, Conceptualizations and Theories Relevant
to Work and Family Roles, by Tiffany Hunt (2002)
http://www.worklifecanada.ca

Work in a family business and gender relations: A case study of recent
Korean immigrant women. Author: Min-Jung Kwak
www.worklifecanada.ca

What is Policy? (2005) by Sherri Torjmam
www.caledoninst.org

A Decade of Going Backwards: Canada in the Post-Beijing Era(2005) by Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action.
www.fafia-afai.org

Assessing the Federal Budget 2005: What’s in it for Women? (2005) by Armine Yalnizyan (Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action)
www.fafia-afai.org

Canada’s Commitment to Equality: A Gender Analysis of the Last Ten Federal Budgets (1995-2004) by Armine Yalnizyan
www.fafia-afai.org

Developing the Policy Framework for Social and Economic Inclusion: Women-centred CED in the 21st Century (2005) by the Canadian Women’s Community Economic Development Council
View PDF

Gender Budget Initiatives: Why They Matter in Canada (2005)by Isabella Bakker (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives)
www.policyalternatives.ca

Social Policy, Gender Inequality and Poverty (2001) by Lorraine Davies and Julie Ann McMullin
http://publications.gc.ca

Women in Non-Standard Jobs: The Public Policy Challenge(2003) by Monica Townson
http://www.publications.gc.ca/

Women in Parliament (2004) by FAFIA
www.fafia-afai.org

Intersectional Feminist Frameworks: An Emerging Vision
www.criaw-icref.ca

Poverty

Great Sites

United Nations Development Fund for Women
www.unifem.org

Suggested Reading

Divided and Distracted: Regionalism as Obstacle to Reducing Poverty and Inequality (2005) by Armine Yalnizyan (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives)
www.policyalternatives.ca

Fact Sheet on Women and Poverty (2005) by CRIAW
www.criaw-icref.ca/

Financial Capability and Poverty (2004) by SEDI
www.policyresearch.gc.ca

Gender Based Analysis in Community-Based Poverty Reduction: A Report on the Gender and Poverty Project (2004) by Catherine Lang and Toby Goldberg-Leong (Vibrant Communities)
www.tamarackcommunity.ca

Poverty and Exclusion: Normative Approaches to Policy Research (2004) by Pearl Eliadis (PRI Project)
www.policyresearch.gc.ca

Progress of the World’s Women 2005: Women, Work and Poverty by Marta Chen et al (UNIFEM)
www.unifem.org/resources/

Social Policy, Gender Inequality and Poverty (2001) by Lorraine Davies and Julie Ann McMullin
http://publications.gc.ca

Disentangling the Web of Women’s Poverty and Exclusion
www.criaw-icref.ca

UN COMMITTEE CRITICIZES CANADA FOR PERSISTENT POVERTY IN THE MIDST OF WEALTH
www.fafia-afai.org

Social Economy

Great Sites

Social Enterprise Alliance
www.se-alliance.org

Social Procurement
Accelerating Social Impact CCC

Suggested Reading

What We Need to Know About the Social Economy: A guide for policy research (2005) by Alan Painter
www.policyresearch.gc.ca

Exploring Social Procurement

Women and Work

Great Sites

Centre for Families, Work and Well-Being University of Guelph
www.worklifecanada.ca

Suggested Reading

Work Life Compendium – 150 Canadian Statistics on Work, Family and Well-Being
dsp-psd.communication.gc.ca

National Study on Balancing Work, Family and Lifestyle
www.phac-aspc.gc.ca

Part-time Work and Family Friendly Practices in Canadian Workplaces
www.uoguelph.ca

Work Life Practices and Flexibility in Small Businesses: A Canadian Research Report
www.uoguelph.ca

A Self-Employment Discussion Paper (2000) by Robert Wilson and Simon Bailey (SEDI)
http://prospercanada.org/Resources/Publications.aspx

The Prime Minister’s Task Force Report on Women Entrepreneurs (2003)
www.liberal.parl.gc.ca

Shattering the Glass Box? Women Entrepreneurs and the Knowledge-based Economy(1998) by Serge Nadeau
www.ic.gc.ca

Sustaining the Momentum: An Economic Forum on Women Entrepreneurs. Summary Report (2005)
http://www.cmcweb.ca/eic/site/iccat.nsf/eng/03949_5.html

Women in Non-Standard Jobs: The Public Policy Challenge (2003) by Monica Townson
http://www.publications.gc.ca

For Women

Great Sites

Economic Development Supports Export Development Canada
www.edc.ca/

Atlantic Canada

Nova Scotia Women and Community Economic Development
www.womenscednetwork.org

ACOA women in Business Initiative
www.acoa.ca

Centre for Women in Business Halifax
www.msvu.ca/cwb/

Ontario

Community Microskills Development Centre
www.microskills.ca/

PARO
www.paro.ca

Social and Enterprise Development Innovations (SEDI)
http://prospercanada.org/

Western Canada

Women’s Enterprise Centres
Manitoba – www.wecm.ca
Alberta – www.aweia.ab.ca
Saskatchewan – www.womenentrepreneurs.sk.ca
BC – www.wes.bc.ca

General

Great Sites

Womenspace
www.womenspace.ca

Caters Design Group
www.catersdesigngroup.com

Simply Reports
www.simplyreports.com

Health

Canadian Women’s Health Network
www.cwhn.ca

Women’s Health Matters
www.womenshealthmatters.ca

Legal

National Association of Women and the Law
www.nawl.ca

For CED Practitioners

Great Sites

The Canadian CED Network
www.ccednet-rcdec.ca

Canadian Women’s Foundation On Line Resource Development Tool
www.cdnwomen.org/CWF-tool-en/

Community Economic Development Across Canada
www.cedcanada.ca

Community Economic Development Technical Assistance Program
www.carleton.ca/cedtap/