Indigenous-Led Data Research Projects: funding recipients 2021 to 2022
During the winter of 2021 to 2022, 19 innovative data research projects, led by Indigenous people, were approved as part of the Indigenous-Led Data Research Projects Program. These projects aim to support innovative Indigenous-led approaches to improving data methodologies specific to missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people. The projects have a cap of $50,000 per year, and several projects are funded over multiple years. The selected projects will:
- work to develop qualitative distinctions or identity-based indicators
- address existing methodological gaps for groups who are underserviced or underrepresented in data
- work to define safety through Indigenous ways of understanding
All projects will ultimately work to improve existing data and expand data related to the safety of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people.
| Region | Funding recipient | Funding total |
|---|---|---|
| Alberta | Alberta First Nations Information Governance Centre | $50,000.00 |
| Atlantic | Wabanaki Two Spirit Alliance | $200,000.00 |
| British Columbia | Carrier Sekani Family Services | $50,000.00 |
| British Columbia | First Nations Health Authority | $50,000.00 |
| British Columbia | Okanagan Nation Alliance | $100,000.00 |
| Manitoba | Manitoba Inuit Association | $250,000.00 |
| Manitoba | Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak Inc. | $50,000.00 |
| National | Congress of Aboriginal Peoples | $49,450.00 |
| National | Les Femmes Michif Otipemisiwak | $250,000.00 |
| National | Native Women's Association of Canada | $49,967.00 |
| National | The National Association of Friendship Centres | $300,000.00 |
| Northwest Territories | Inuvialuit Regional Corporation | $50,000.00 |
| Ontario | Grand Council Treaty # 3 | $50,000.00 |
| Ontario | Nishnawbe Aski Nation | $100,000.00 |
| Ontario | Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres (2 projects) | $500,000.00 |
| Ontario | Ontario Native Women's Association (2 projects) | $125,000.00 |
| Ontario | Union of Ontario Indians / Anishinabek Nation | $50,000.00 |