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Contribution: Gender-Based Violence Program

Supporting Women's Alternatives Network (SWAN Vancouver) Society

$500,000.00

Human Trafficking Prevention & Response Among Underserved Im/migrant Sex Workers

FY 2020-21 · 2021-03-01

Summary
This 49-month project with Supporting Women's Alternative Network (SWAN Vancouver) Society will develop and implement prevention, response services, and promising intervention practices to advance knowledge and enhance empowerment supports for im/migrant sex workers who experience systemic vulnerability to human trafficking. This will be achieved by providing trafficking prevention and response services, filling the gap in province-wide services, educating provincial partners on the realities, reducing barriers to service among provincial organizations, informing im/migrant sex workers of province-wide services, and empowering them to access services in the communities in which they live and work. At the end of the project, the organization will have provided prevention and response services to women in Greater Vancouver, developed and implemented promising prevention and intervention practices, built province-wide service network with partner organizations, and empowered im/migrant sex workers across BC to access local community services. The project will include an external evaluation that will look at the success and scalability of the promising practices. The supplemental funding will be used to scale the initial promising practice by engaging and mentoring settlement agencies to reduce barriers to service for im/migrant sex workers, providing trafficking prevention and intervention for im/migrant sex workers in new communities, informing them of low-barrier services, and empowering them to access settlement services in the communities in which they live and work.
Program
Gender-Based Violence Program
Location
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Recipient Type
Not-for-profit organization or charity
Type
Contribution
Source
Proactive Disclosure - Grants and Contributions

Amendments

Each version of the agreement as published, oldest first, with its total as of that version. The amount above is the latest.

AmendmentDateFiscal YearTotal
02021-01-042020-21$400,000.00
12021-03-012020-21$500,000.00

As published

Additional Information
Increase of agreement value & change of end date
Additional Information (French)
Augmentation de la valeur de l'accord & changement de la date de fin
Agreement End Date
2025-03-31
Agreement Number
HT20384
Agreement Start Date
2021-03-01
Agreement Title
Human Trafficking Prevention & Response Among Underserved Im/migrant Sex Workers
Agreement Title (French)
Prévention de la traite de personnes et intervention auprès des travailleuses du sexe immigrantes et migrantes
Agreement Type
Contribution
Agreement Value
$500,000.00
Amendment Date
2023-11-22
Amendment Number
1
Description
This 49-month project with Supporting Women's Alternative Network (SWAN Vancouver) Society will develop and implement prevention, response services, and promising intervention practices to advance knowledge and enhance empowerment supports for im/migrant sex workers who experience systemic vulnerability to human trafficking. This will be achieved by providing trafficking prevention and response services, filling the gap in province-wide services, educating provincial partners on the realities, reducing barriers to service among provincial organizations, informing im/migrant sex workers of province-wide services, and empowering them to access services in the communities in which they live and work. At the end of the project, the organization will have provided prevention and response services to women in Greater Vancouver, developed and implemented promising prevention and intervention practices, built province-wide service network with partner organizations, and empowered im/migrant sex workers across BC to access local community services. The project will include an external evaluation that will look at the success and scalability of the promising practices. The supplemental funding will be used to scale the initial promising practice by engaging and mentoring settlement agencies to reduce barriers to service for im/migrant sex workers, providing trafficking prevention and intervention for im/migrant sex workers in new communities, informing them of low-barrier services, and empowering them to access settlement services in the communities in which they live and work.
Description (French)
Ce projet d’une durée de 49 mois, réalisé avec la Supporting Women’s Alternative Network Society (SWAN Vancouver), concevra et mettra en œuvre des services de prévention et d’intervention ainsi que des pratiques d’intervention prometteuses pour améliorer les connaissances et les mesures de soutien à l’autonomisation des travailleuses du sexe migrantes et immigrantes qui sont touchées par la vulnérabilité systémique émanant de la traite de personnes. Pour ce faire, on fournira des services de prévention de la traite de personnes et d’intervention connexe; on comblera les lacunes dans les services à l’échelle de la province; on sensibilisera les partenaires provinciaux aux réalités; on réduira les obstacles aux services dans les organismes provinciaux; on informera les travailleuses du sexe migrantes et immigrantes des services provinciaux; et on leur donnera les moyens d’accéder aux services dans les communautés où elles vivent et travaillent. À la fin du projet, l’organisme aura fourni des services de prévention et d’intervention aux femmes du Grand Vancouver; élaboré et mis en œuvre des pratiques prometteuses de prévention et d’intervention; mis sur pied un réseau de services à l’échelle de la province avec des organismes partenaires; et donné les moyens aux travailleuses du sexe migrantes et immigrantes de la Colombie-Britannique d’accéder aux services communautaires locaux. Le projet comprendra une évaluation externe qui portera sur le succès des pratiques prometteuses et leur application à plus grande échelle. Le financement supplémentaire servira à mettre à l’échelle la pratique prometteuse initiale en mobilisant et en encadrant des organismes d’aide à l’établissement pour réduire les obstacles aux services pour les travailleuses du sexe migrantes et immigrantes; en assurant la prévention de la traite et les interventions connexes pour les travailleuses du sexe migrantes et immigrantes dans de nouvelles collectivités; en les informant des services à faible obstacle; et en leur donnant les moyens d’accéder aux services d’aide à l’établissement dans les collectivités où elles vivent et travaillent.
Expected Results
Promising practices are incorporated by the GBV sector into new or enhanced supports for target populations.
Expected Results (French)
Intégration, par le secteur, des pratiques prometteuses aux mesures de soutien nouvelles ou améliorées qu’il offre aux populations ciblées.
Organization Code
wage
Organization
Women and Gender Equality Canada | Femmes et Égalité des genres Canada
Program Name
Gender-Based Violence Program
Program Name (French)
Programme de financement de la lutte contre la violence fondée sur le sexe
Program Purpose
The purpose of the GBV Program is to strengthen the GBV sector to address gaps in supports for two groups of survivors: 1) Indigenous women and their communities, and 2) underserved populations (including women living with a disability, non-status/refugee /immigrant women, LGBTQ2S, gender non-conforming people and ethno-cultural women) in Canada. The Program provides grant and contribution funding to Canadian organizations to improve supports to help create long-term, comprehensive solutions at the national, regional, and local levels.
Program Purpose (French)
Le Programme de financement de la lutte contre la violence fondée sur le sexe (le Programme) vise à renforcer la lutte contre la violence fondée sur le sexe (VFS) et, en particulier, à remédier au manque de soutien pour deux catégories de survivantes et survivants, soit : 1) les femmes autochtones et leurs communautés; et 2) les populations sous-desservies au Canada (notamment les femmes handicapées, les femmes réfugiées, immigrantes ou en situation irrégulière, les personnes allosexuelles et les femmes des minorités ethnoculturelles). Il s’agit d’un programme de subventions et contributions pour les organismes canadiens qui mènent des projets visant à améliorer les mesures d’aide offertes et à créer des solutions durables et complètes à l’échelle nationale, régionale et locale.
Recipient City
Vancouver
Recipient Country
CA
Recipient Legal Name
Supporting Women's Alternatives Network (SWAN Vancouver) Society
Recipient Postal Code
V6B 0R1
Recipient Province or Territory
BC
Recipient Type
N
Reference Number
001-2020-2021-Q4-00049