We are more successful as a coalition than as individual members.

Projects

Yukon Women's Coalition continually commits to different internal projects, with specific goals, ultimately meant to: 

Strengthen our Authority as a Coalition

Increase our Ability to Work and Advocate Collaboratively

Create a Healthier, more Resilient, and Responsive GBV Sector in the Yukon

To learn about our external work- public advocacy efforts and other initiatives aimed at engaging civil society and policy makers, visit our Take Action page.

2024-2025 Projects

Program Review: Collective Impact Model

We undertook a thorough 'program review' of the Yukon's gender-based violence (GBV) service landscape to clearly identify structural gaps, possible redundancies, and resource inequities.

Why We Did This

This work emerged during critical conversations about how to best allocate years 3 and 4 of Yukon's $32.8 million NAP – GBV transfer payment.

Learn More

Read the briefing package, the executive summary, and/or the full final report.

In alignment of our ultimate goal – to meaningfully prevent and respond to GBV in the Yukon, this project was meant to:

  • Engage equity-seeking organizations to guide Women & Gender Equity Directorate's implementation of years 3 & 4 of the NAP GBV.
  • Develop tools to gauge the effectiveness and long-term stability of Yukon's GBV sector

YWC contracted Boreal Logic to complete this project; a local company considered leaders in AI-augmented policy, governance strategy, and decision intelligence.

6 sector-wide risks and structural challenges are outlined in this "briefing package". Key amidst these is the confirmation that there is currently no transparent or equitable model for distributing core funding across organizations.

2 core recommendations are:

  • A 24-category indicator framework to serve as the foundation for implementing the National Action Plan in the Yukon.
  • A strategic funding allocation approach with 4 components, to operationalize the framework.

The impact of this project is significant. The Coalition will now work towards:.

  • Finalizing the Coalition's approach to data gathering and reporting by selecting common indicators across 24 categories spanning all NAP pillars.
  • Supporting member organizations in developing a workplan aligned with the Collective Impact model using the shared indicator framework.

If the recommendations of this report are implemented, Yukon has the opportunity to emerge as a national leader in effective NAP implementation while fundamentally strengthening its ability to evaluate the health of its sector and its approach to preventing and responding to gender-based violence.

Through this project we sought to:

  • Get a better understanding of our data needs.
  • Support the Coalition as a whole, and potentially each member organization, with data deliverables, governance and literacy.

Open North is a not-for-profit organization that specializes in building the capacity of civic-minded organizations to make better decisions about managing their data.

There is great potential for the Coalition to to make decisions around data in a structured, coherent, and coordinated manner. This project concluded with OpenNorth presenting:

  1. A framework of principles that both guide data decisions and make the best use of data at the Coalition: inclusive, responsible, accountable, advocacy-focused and transparent.
      
  2.  A roadmap that provides a compilation of recommended objectives and actions to help the Coalition use and share data better.

The roadmap recommendations are laid out across 5 stages.  Each member will now be implementing next steps to the best of their capacity and seeking funding and capacity options to do so.

This project supports the Program Review (see above) and a movement towards being more proactive in determining how we ethically collect and share data that gauges the health of our sector.

Data Governance

This project is the 'tip of the iceberg' in working towards better data governance across our sector.

Why We Did This

The Coalition and our individual members:

  • Know that data is a powerful tool.
  • Aim to work with data in the most ethical way.
  • Must report on data in numerous and varied ways across our funding agreements.

Learn More

Read the final report or see the final power point workshop slides.

Communications Strategy & Website Development

Developing an online presence (this website!), a logo and other communications tools.

Why We Did This

Although we've been around since 2010, we have not had an online presence, nor the time and resources to build and maintain one – until now.

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See the brand presentation of our logo.

Developing our 'look', online platforms, and a communications strategy, are all meant to:

  • Create a shared space where we can provide more clarity about who we are and the work we do to all stakeholders.
  • Engage more proactively with stakeholders.

Bloom & Brilliance specialize in helping intersectional and Indigenous feminists step into their full potential with design, strategy and more.

With our logo and website development complete, we are now working on the final phase of this project: a communications strategy, website maintenance training, and rollout of print and social media tools.

We look forward to using the tools developed via this project to do our advocacy work with greater ease and efficiency.

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