Organizational and Human Resource Capacity for Addressing Gender Equality

Acknowledgments This report is result of the collaborative efforts between the Next Generation Program, implemented by the Canadian Council for International Co-operation (CCIC) and the Canadian Association for the Study of International Development (CASID), and Le CQFD de l’Association québécoise des organismes de coopération internationale (AQOCI) and the School of International Development and [...] Since the launch of the policy, the question of how the FIAP will shape future aid investments for Canadian organizations has emerged, including with respect to how organizations will align their programming and organizational structures with the principles and development objectives of the FIAP. [...] At the same time, the study revealed the need for further investments to align with the goals of the FIAP such as specific skills development required by staff to design, implement and evaluate projects, secure financial and social resources that contribute to both organizational and programmatic mechanisms in support of feminist development, and ongoing knowledge sharing across CSO networks in or [...] A better understanding is needed of how Canadian CSOs and their partners are pursuing (or not) feminist, rights-based approaches to international development and humanitarian assistance, and how existing practices inform and strengthen the capacity of Canadian organizations and their partners to address gender inequality and in the manner presented in the FIAP. [...] Since the launch of the policy in 2017, there have been a lot of 8 discussion and critique around how the FIAP will shape future aid investments for Canadian organizations and how organizations will align their programming and organizational structure with implementing the FIAP (Tiessen and Swan, 2017; Brown and Swiss, 2017; Tiessen, 2019; Tiessen and Black, 2019; Mason, 2019; Rao and Tiessen, 202